I have thought long and hard about this piece. The author's story is powerful. I agree fully with everything the author says about the terrible damage we do to children by enforcing the gender binary, I agree with everything they say about how the kind of conventional masculinity that our society demands of men is…

I knew this coment would be here but not this quick. Damn, did T-Swizzle turn you down as a friend? Some of us can't make the list and it's okay.

Kara, I know you're just being funny and not totally serious and using Tay Tay as a way to highlight something that's been talked about around here for awhile, White people with zero Black friends. I love you and this is just a little constructive criticism: Don't. Do. This. Again.

BECAUSE MATH. BECAUSE SCIENCE.

I don't believe her.

This thread is seriously infuriating. Thanks for fighting the good fight.

"By accepting my apology she's giving me a chance to prove over time that I understand that what I did was wrong and can change that aspect of my attitudes or behaviors."

What you are doing is called tone policing.

Right? This dude is writing entire paragraphs lamenting the fact I'm not forgiving some old white dude for making a racist joke. This is textbook #whitefeminism

"And when a white person apologizes for racism, you blacks are supposed to find it in your hearts to forgive them!"

"your response is that he can take it and shove it"

Meh, he can take his apology and shove it. This dude is emblematic of so many other oldish white dudes. Even when a black person (espeeeecialy a black woman) earns a modicum of success, they have to, in some way, put them back in their place. It's almost as if generations of white supremacy has conditioned them to be…

Oop! #whiteprivilege is when a white male rapper can write the most violent, misogynistic, racist music and be labeled one of the best, if not, the best rapper to ever exist. White people will look at Eminem and say that his music has "meaning", but say that other rappers (i.e. black rappers) write nothing but…

He knows you can't eat a trophy.

What I'm most surprised by is how Vladimir Putin finds the time to referee. That guy is everywhere.

THANK YOU

Note also, Darren Wilson left the area DAYS AGO. All why his colleagues continued to hold Ferguson citizens under siege and he hid from the public.