I'm not sexist, but women have the most ridiculous food complaints. Do their uteri get in the way of proper digestion or something? Men's stomachs don't pussy out because of "allergies."

Yeah, I think most introvert/extrovert articles come down to "know your limits and needs and communicate them." I'm an introvert who has very good friends of both persuasions, and we all know how we operate, and nobody takes it personally when I say, "I'm going to peace out a little early tonight" or someone else…

I don't think it's that people in general are more angry about it; I think that racists have chosen to focus on it as a sort of "nitpicky" accusation (their characterization, not mine). So instead of trying to defend her more hostile racism, they can say, "it's just a word! You can't sue her for just saying a word…

Oh, I didn't realize they were contacts. That explains it. (I agree with you—it seems to come from a place of white person with blue eyes=pinnacle of human beauty.)

I've got family members who do. Things like, "why are people so upset? Everyone's said it at one time or another!" ...yeah. And since they're family, and I don't want to make things difficult for some relatives we have in common who try to maintain those relationships, the best I can do in retaliation is refuse to…

I got the impression in the episodes I watched that a lot of the jokes were based on character types and were kind of the same thing over and over again (the lecherous one, the ditzy woman, and so on). But perhaps I should give it another shot.

Wouldn't it be awesome if racists would self-segregate themselves? Possibly on an island far, far out in the ocean where the rest of us wouldn't have to deal with them?

Totally off-topic, but "paint"? Does that mean something different from "highlight"? Is it a regional way of saying "highlight"? (I really am just curious, I don't want to sound like I dislike your word choice at all.)

That is a much better name! "Cronut" sounds like a tractor part.

Because it's not racism, silly. It's a joke! See, she cleverly invented a new phrase for the acronym NBA! Word games are fun :-)

I know a few racist folks who live in Philly, and it seems to work like this: people in cities can be real assholes sometimes (everyone's living on top of each other, conflict happens), but if you're a racist, bad behavior by white people is just kind of "that's what happens when you live in a city," and bad behavior…

I get the impression the photoshoppers were told, "she's underwater, so you can just do whatever the fuck you want."

"She bakes her own bread. She spends her extrabucks on Twizzlers."

That's the thing, though. They're not "the evilest of evils." But they're a large company with a lot of power over children, so I think it's important to critique them and use their choices to understand the way we think about culture.

I'm really not sure why people are harping on the blonde thing. The pattern is one of whiteness, and blondeness is just as marker of someone being *especially* white. That's the only reason it comes up. Having white blondes, white brunettes, and white redheads does not = diversity.

This is the best. Seriously. The Best.

What? No. Not even a little. There's a difference between a specific example—"Rapunzel is white and blonde"—and an overall pattern—"most Disney Princesses are white, and they often fall into a very narrow idea of white beauty that includes being blonde." No one is saying that it's offensive to be blonde; they're…

Right? I didn't really get what people saw in him until I saw him on 30 rock (hate that show, but I loved him on it).

Scheduling, maybe?