Cool to see how many folks here aren’t gonna let facts, or lack thereof, get in the way of assuming they know better than the reported facts (or the court that granted a restraining order).

How? Finley asked for and was granted a restraining order after the alleged assault. So what do you know that the rest of us don’t? 

another issue i’ve heard is that some older folks in the black community still think of being gay as a “white thing” and so they want nothing to do with LGBTQ folks.

you do realize there are plenty of gay black people out there right? And they are going to be hit by this worst of all.

Plus there’s plenty of homophobia to go around in the black community, I surprised by how many old-school rap albums were littered with homophobic slurs.

“...caring about “gay issues” is caring about black issues.”

And I’m just gonna say this - I am 45 years old, I came out when I was 16, and every single time I’ve been called “fag” or “faggot” or any other gay slur you can think of, it has come from the mouth of a black or brown person - usually black. Does that frustrate and irritate me sometimes? Of course. Does that make me…

I got married.

Yes as a lady physicist that show grates on me. I watched the pilot in college and at that point the joke was “dumb blonde interacts with nerdy scientists omg lol.” It def has a fandom among male physicists so 🤷‍♀️

Well, yeah, but that’s just built into the economy-class penalty. Armrest wrestling, seat-reclining jihad, and infectious-disease bingo are all part of the fun!

The best elliptical machines at my gym come equipped with an entertainment screen for which, frustratingly, all the controls are broken. You cannot turn it off, change the channel, etc. And it’s always stuck on TBS reruns of The Big Bloody Fucking Bang Theory, so I basically never use those machines. Granted, you can…

Talc itself is a carcinogen.  I wonder if asbestos is really all that much worse.

Before the internet, we just chain-smoked for the duration.

LOL children, you missed flying before internet.

LOL children,  you missed flying before internet. 

Although we are always told never to judge people by their looks, we always do. What you eyes see in the first 5-10 seconds makes up your mind. To me, he looks creepy and suspicious but then i have an inbuilt bias against men.

BTW, am I wrong, or is it nowhere in the report that Dean actually saw Jefferson point a gun? There really isn’t anyway given how quickly he shot, the curtain on the window, etc...that he could have even seen a gun before he shot through the window. So why are we hearing this bullshit story, now?

Mic-drop.

Remy Ma? Not surprised. I mean, a lot of black people from NYC have a very chill approach to non-black people saying the N-word. I, for one, do not have the patience for it lol.

Her “apology” is the most smarmy, passive aggressive shit I’ve seen this year and it’s 2019 I’ve seen a LOT of passive aggressive shit ok??!!

Merriam Webster can be used online now, with the intent that it is about as basic an internet resource as they get. And getting an old, stodgy institution up with the times means something - recognition, I guess.