One of the two categories she was talking about was best /female/ video though. (I’m not sure why all of these awards are gender-segregated but I guess they are).

I really thought it said that. After I saw your comment I had to scroll back up to confirm that it didn’t.

IM(w)O it would still be a shitty, racist thing to do to put Native American actors through that without telling them what was going on.

I had such a crush on Alan Shore.

Sorry, I forgot that kinja is not so great with context. I meant your reference to the “Ebola nurse” post on I Thee Dread. I managed to miss that one.

Didn’t the buzz about “free-range parenting” arise from a story where CPS was called on a family who let their kids walk home from school, though? Not sure what race the family was (although it was in a largely black neighborhood) but they definitely got in trouble for it.

If he’d just said that he feels bad about how he looks and how his body feels, I don’t think anyone would be mad. Making it about getting attention from young women is another thing entirely.

Now I’m curious which side of the debate you fell on!

The what in the what now?

Stop making me want to have kids!

He looks like he has a sense of humor and I don’t get where my brain is getting that.

This reminds me like A LOT of He Xiangyu’s 2011 installation The Death Of Marat, which depicted the artist Ai Weiwei, who was missing at the time after being detained by the Chinese government:

Shit, this is really near where I grew up. I used to go to that mall all the time. What a horrible story. :( Weird that I never heard about it in all my time living there.

I think being /afraid/ of it is just normal fear of rape, but making /jokes/ about it has an aspect of homophobia. Because of the implication that a guy who gets fucked by another guy deserves to be laughed at. The same reason why rape jokes are misogynistic, really.

I have to say this is the best wacky celebrity behavior story I’ve heard of in a long time. No domestic abuse, creepy underage relationships, cults, racism or labor abuse. Just good old-fashioned entitled famous people weirdness.

A lot of women find it condescending, like a reference to “the fairer sex.” I don’t personally have a problem with it but I can see why some people do.

That’s a regional difference.

I agree with this sentiment to a certain extent, in that I wish that we could focus on rehabilitating people who commit violent offenses as opposed to punishing them.

My dopey cousin purports to be voting for this guy. Hopefully he’ll be drummed out of the race before that becomes an issue.

I went to a party this weekend where the host was making a cocktail called Scalia’s Tears. It was delicious!