you really help me continue to enjoy this site.

Straw Dogs, in my opinion. Most rape scenes are beyond gratuitous, but that's the one where everything about it is necessary to the story being told.

Who cares if they're unhelpful? They're tweets. They'd be buried in the dredges of the internet if some dude hadn't decided to start a fight with her. I know it feels like you're advocating for the middle ground here, but honestly? We should be able to tell the difference between an off-hand tweet and a dissertation…

Nope I'm white, just cognizant of the fact that POC expressing frustration with white people isn't racism as we generally use the term.

Well, that's obviously part of the idea. It's also that women and POC face innumerable microaggressions every day in a thousand different circumstances. I bring up microaggressions for a big reason—that modern-day sexism and racism are much more buried than they used to be, so that you don't have a Jim Crow South…

What, do you want a medal?

I think having a huge discussion about what in my mind is obviously a lesser wrong, while on a comment board that is actively sexist and racist all the time, demands that people who know better step the fuck up and educate those around them, instead of making false equivalences that soothe the inflamed white male ego.

Literally nothing about twitter is a requirement for anything. What I'm advocating for is not treating an obvious expression of frustration with racism/sexism as equivalent to actual systemic racism/sexism. And once we're on that ground, Sonia's tweets become the equivalent of a girl who was cheated on by her…

Because it's a shorthand way of expression something that women and POC feel all the time, and it's a way of educating white men on what it feels like to be reduced to characteristics you have no choice over. Because that's what the majority of people in society experience every day—their gender and their race first,…

"I guess you follow her around all day, is how you know that?"

Jesus Christ, dude. Did you learn nothing from #YesAllWomen? Can your feeble mind not make the necessary abstraction to apply that torrent of personal experiences to minorities?

And it doesn't make you any smarter or well-informed to refuse to engage with the actual forces at play in society. Call me whatever names you want; call Sonia whatever insults make you feel better about yourself. But your inability to understand where that frustration comes from is a sign of a lack of maturity on…

I mean, do you really want to have a conversation about how systemic oppression is different from personal views, and how when people who hold systemic power benefit from racism and sexism, that actively harms huge groups of individuals? Because, yeah, I'm down for that conversation. But if you want to make a false…

People aren't curious. White dudes are angry, because for the first time in their life, they're feeling what it feels like to be reduced to their race and gender. Guess what? As an adult in society, the rest of the population has learned to fucking live with that shit. So yeah, the sophomoric, youthful, half-baked,…

Is the problem that she deals with racism and sexism every day, because yeah, that is a giant fucking problem.

Ughhhhhh forever done with white dudes who don't understand that the generalizations of oppressed minorities are a reaction against systemic racism and sexism, and are not the same thing as actual systemic racism and sexism.

Ditto. It was amazing. I'm literally stunned.

"What really matters is whether abhorrent behavior is being actively celebrated"

http://www.nytimes.com/2014…

Of all American accents, Southern accents are actually closest to modern English accents. The vast majority of Southern microculture were English-based, unlike the strange combos you get in larger East coast towns.