Not enough people are talking about the significance of Serena, Amandla, Quvenzhane, and Zendaya’s cameos.

Overall, I appreciate the point that you are making, but I think you underestimate the importance of people who were “merely” creeped-out by predators speaking up. Being creeped out is a legitimate and valuable visceral reaction to encountering someone who is a predator. Every woman out there, if you haven’t got one…

When someone just won’t leave you alone, especially someone who has said inappropriate things previously (in this case, AT WORK), it’s legitimately threatening. It ruins the party at best, and it makes you fearful for what might happen afterwards. “Insidious” is 100% the correct word. It instills dread.

it’s not ok to make a pass at someone in a professional setting. she was there to give an interview, not a date. ghomeshi is a fucking scumbag and people like you baffle me.

No! I’m such a bad cat mom!

My cat brings me presents all the time! He gifts me his toys. Though he stands there mewing until I literally say thank you so he’s really in it for the praise high.

I wonder if it’s a ploy to get more free stuff for your kid. (Which I respect, but why not throw a “gender identity should be liberated from essentialist notions about behavior and preferences, and also may not correspond with the baby’s biological sex” party? I guess a party like that could get a little insufferable,…

That karate anecdote really hit home for me. Karate was my life from ages 10-16, when I finally got my black belt. However, once thrown into class with the other black belts, most of whom were men in their 20s, 30s, and 40s, I quit within six months. Why? Because they made inappropriate and sexist remarks about my…

And as a mixed raced child who had a white mother who took every single racial and sexist battle - and won them, I’ll say: the exhaustion is worth it.

When my son was in kindergarten, I consistently spoke up as the parent of a kid with autism, bringing those issues into conversations, and I worried that it would mark me as the Weird Mom, but after a couple of years I saw attitudes changing among the parents.

Simone had to practically be a virtuoso to achieve her fame. Privilege—in this case the privilege of conventional, white standards of beauty—is the ability to be mediocre and still have opportunites. You really think if Nina had Zoe’s level of talent (or relative lack thereof) that she would be as legendary?

Not quite getting your point. I never said she was black American (which is why she doesn’t “read” as such). It’s been pretty well publicized that she’s Afro Latina. And this is what likely helps her get cast in these roles. America would prefer “exotic” over African-American, even for a role portraying an…

AND, by taking this role, Zoe is contributing to the problem by occupying one of the few leading roles available for dark-skinned Black women!

The real problem with casting Zoe Saldana is that she has benefitted from white supremacy in the industry; Nina was victimized by it. Though they are both black women, they represent almost entirely different existences, and it is this contradiction many black women have the most trouble with.

Nahh, it’s blackface. They chose a much lighter skinned actress with “acceptable” features to play a dark skinned woman with broader features and put her in hours upon hours of dark and heavy makeup and prosthetics. And now when she does press for it and interviews and photoshoots, she will be the acceptable shade…

I love her and her glasses and her earrings and her happy face and her miiiind.
Marley 4-ever.

My son is 12 years old and he loves Macklemore. I had mixed feelings about him until my son asked me about the first White Privilege song and what it meant. I am so grateful for an opportunity to start an important conversation with my kiddo about our privilege in a way that doesn’t come across as another lecture from…