But why would sitting on a toilet for ten minutes involve extra straining, causally? (I can understand how the causation might run in the opposite direction.)

Sounds about white.

I’ll let everyone else question whether non-consensual hair touching actually happens and declare my love for the perfect expression on the game character’s face. I never thought I could admire an illustration this much. The game designers are legit geniuses for managing to portray such an epic level of “bitch please”.

He’s not wondering. He’s being dismissive. He came to a black site written for a black audience and said our experiences sound rare and are akin to urban legends. There’s no curiosity in his comment. This is genuine curiosity. See how this person is not saying that black women are probably telling fables perpetrated…

Why do you think you are should pass that type of judgement? What the hell? Most of the people commenting that they are surprised by this are white. So duh, they’re not gonna know.

If they weren’t visible to you, then it’s because you chose to (1) not click to see responses pending approval (2) wrote a knee jerk reactionary comment based on your apparent dislike of The Root within 5 minutes of the article posting up. So yeah, that is on you.

Several commentators have said that they hate when this happens to them. Keep up.

“You talk an awful lot. I don’t hear much about what you plan to actually DO differently, though.”

That’s a bit like people who think an apology is a ritual to force the other person to let you get away with wronging them. There are people who treat apologies that way, but we recognize their insincerity (or at least, if we DO spot the insincerity, we call them on it). But sincere apologies exist too, as an attempt…

I think vocally condemning unacceptable actions is one aspect of shifting the norm and is one aspect of the equation that leads to changed results. The reason sexual assault / groping was so rampant in my community growing up was because no grown man (nor woman) called it out. It was accepted as ‘the norm’ and boys…

I don’t see that.

Acknowledgment of complicity / guilt can be a dodge in place of meaningful action, or it can be a first step followed by meaningful action. It’s the meaningful action that tells you something about the sincerity and intentions.

Tim Reid, the comic and character actor who played Venus Flytrap on “WKRP in Cincinnati” called this his “Fuck You money.” He saved his dough from WKRP, lived modestly, and used it to be able to turn down racist or exploitative film and TV roles.

Yup, my most prevalent thought is: if they replace her, nobody better go see that goddamn movie!

Well if the old crossover comics are anything to go by, she can no problem.

Bad boys are cool. Some old, fat, ugly ass guy whipping his dick out randomly? Not cool.

Good for her. Now if we can only convince women not to work with Woody Allen and Roman Polanski, maybe those two creeps can fade from public consciousness.

looks like she can wield Mjolnir, too.

“It stands to reason that Warner Bros will scrutinize this closely: the corporation is in the midst of an acquisition by AT&T.”

“as studios have been quick to distance themselves from the growing list of bad boys being outed in press reports”