...because Lincoln sent in troops to prevent Maryland from voting to secede. Maryland was a captive member of the Union.

I have lived in various parts of the Northeast/New England, and the Maryland in which I was raised was Southern. It is the Upper South, as is its social and cultural partner Virginia, the home to the capital of the Confederacy. Maryland ain’t South Carolina just like Florida ain’t Texas. The South isn’t a monolith. I…

My guess is that it’s a breed specific thing. Ravioli looks like a Cornish Rex. Maybe the Rex, like the Sphynx breed, do indeed require regular baths.

My guess is that it’s a breed specific thing. Ravioli looks like a Cornish Rex. Maybe the Rex, like the Sphynx breed, do indeed require regular baths.

My guess is that it’s a breed specific thing. Ravioli looks like a Cornish Rex. Maybe the Rex, like the Sphynx breed, do indeed require regular baths.

C) Finally, while some (very few in my personal observations) women in “immediate professional circles where they dominate culture” (such as teaching or nursing) will condescend to men, that’s definitely not the “female equivalent of mansplaining”.

I noticed that too and it is no trivial matter; the author is simply inaccurate on this point.

Shaking my head, I can only laugh at this point. On the female circumcision issue, you couldn't have less of a clue of my perspective. Xenophobia, ha, ha, ha. Ha! I tell ya, there ain't nothing like the combination of unquestioned entitlement and willful ignorance. Brava. Simply ass-backwards. White Man's Burden…

Whuh? Is this from some online newspaper poll? So your argument is based on your faulty understanding of US popular opinion. I really don't know what to say; good luck with that I guess.

I suppose we have no common ground. I would argue that a few days of reading on the internet does not a foundation of knowledge make, and a perspective that excludes gender/race analysis gives you a pretty limited outlook, particularly on this matter.

Yes, I did assume you were a different person, and someone with at least a basic level of knowledge of at least some of the issues. Now that you've disabused me of that assumption, your original statement makes even less sense to me. You can't with confidence defend the writers point since you don't seem to…

Okay, since you have absolutely no understanding of the context of the tweet nor the issues affecting black American women and girls, why on earth do you consider your criticism a worthwhile contribution to the discussion?

Okay, so you too believe that focusing a media minute on the violent speech directed at a little black girl is a distraction from the real issues of sexism as it affects a narrow group of white women. Enough said. I only wish y'all would just call it wealthy-white-womanism, or some such, and stop claiming your brand…

So I suppose this statement sounds about right to you: "Focusing on the word "cunt" is a distraction; for example, the Onion debacle kinda overshadowed how sexist the Oscars were overall. And that's the goal, right?"

Yup, this. Said so much better than I could. Thank you for saying it.