Oh. I definitely do. The US is the safest modern country for Jews.

“Muslim women everywhere in west are targeted for covering their hair, I guess you think that those Muslim women are radicals too?”

Right. I think one of my big wake up moments was when I was about 21 and I thought, “Wait. There is a safe place for Jews. It’s called the United Fucking States of America.” Boom.

Are you kidding me? That’s... precious. I’m 0% surprised. Gender identity and sexuality bring a lot of essentially stupid people into the political realm. People who never would have had a political thought if they weren’t queer. And surprise surprise. They are totally unprepared to interact socially with... anyone. I…

I went to college in the US right after 9/11. I’m the daughter of a secular Jew, who had never explored her Jewish roots much, but was interested in doing so. Basically... the perfect target for Hillel recruitment. I became more involved with the Jewish community on campus, taking classes in Hebrew and hanging out…

I’ll give Rachel this: As a white woman, raised by white people who inflicted their white saviorism on her and her siblings, she’s perfectly qualified to recognize this The Help for the white female fantasy it is.

I feel so vindicated by this comments section. I’m a white woman. I’m not the world’s biggest consumer of Black fiction or film. But even I was embarrassed by the trailers for The Help. I have a family member who loves the movie, and I couldn’t sit through it. It was too cringe inducing. It’s just such an…

I was surprised by this too. Jezebel usually does a really good job at playing nice and pretending that “sex work is work.”

“... she didn’t respond and actually that night changed her profile picture to one of her and him together.”

As a white woman it’s pretty obvious to me that (in addition to doing everything you’ve pointed out) she used her insider’s knowledge of white culture to affect a version of Blackness that would be particularly palatable to white people. Having said that, I am convinced, as I keep saying on this…

I totally accept that transraccialism is a thing, and I also know that not all Black people look Black. There are many cases of people being accidentally adopted out, as infants, transraccially and not realizing it till they were adults, with a firm racial identity. And there are many very light people being raised by…

She’s mentally ill. She isn’t transracial. (Which can be a thing, for some people who grow up in extraordinary circumstances.) She has some form of Munchaussen syndrome which causes her to malinger and to seek out sympathy and publicity. She didn’t just “pretend” to be Black and get caught. There was a lot that led up…

No. But can you honestly say that the economics of most “feminist” households you know aren’t just as fucked up? Most women I know who are fully participating in public life, through work, scholarship and politics, are NOT able to do this because they have achieved parity with men in their households. Most women I…