If racism against Asian-Americans is going to be part of your beat, can I make a request? Can we get Elizabeth Banks to make Pitch Perfect 2 less (or even not, miracle of miracles) racist towards Asians? There is so much I want to love in that movie and then my heart is constantly crushed by the anti-Asian remarks,…

It would not surprise me at all if this really happened. One month ago an Italian MP put on Blackface during Parliamentary debate (http://world.time.com/2014/01/17/ita…). Netherlands is still filled with Zwarte Piet yearly and Austria has a similar Blackface Santa named Nikolo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwarte_Pi…).…

CounterCounterPoint: While Donna is amazing and we hear a lot about her success with men, we never actually see her with any of them. Also she is generally criminally underused.

Could be, but I doubt it. The late 90s early 00s rend for American Evangelicalism was to have a Christian version of everything (Christian pop! Christian coffeehouses! Christian toast!) so one could both be trendy and cool but publicly Jesus-y, so I think this is just a latecomer to that party.

Yes, this. It is true that by increasing the number of people you care about a lot, you increase the number of ways in which you can be hurt by the loss of a person you care about. But her kids are no more likely to get hurt or die than other kids and if they do she will still have other kids to love and they will…

"Sometimes racist and always hurtful"

Yeah, this song definitely deserves a much more in-depth analysis than, "it uses the word rape, that's bad." Since in the video she's calling men out repeatedly for looking at her, shooting towards them, critiquing male ownership of her, etc., isn't it possible that the rape line is a purposeful (if clumsy) reversal…

Totally true, but I think the appeal of autism for this kind of "hell in a handbasket thinking" isn't that it's the worst thing, but that it's the newest thing - as something uniquely and strongly associated with the last thirty years or so, it can be tied more easily to problems the speaker wants to imagine have…

Side issue - I find it confusing that the post heavily excerpted above, which was written by individual blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates, is consistently referred to as written by "The Atlantic" or as "the Atlantic piece." It is Ta-Nehisi Coates' piece, published by the Atlantic. Is there a reason I missed for this? Whether…

Side issue - I find it confusing that the post heavily excerpted above, which was written by individual blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates, is consistently referred to as written by "The Atlantic" or as "the Atlantic piece." It is Ta-Nehisi Coates' piece, published by the Atlantic. Is there a reason I missed for this? Whether…

Side issue - I find it confusing that the post heavily excerpted above, which was written by individual blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates, is consistently referred to as written by "The Atlantic" or as "the Atlantic piece." It is Ta-Nehisi Coates' piece, published by the Atlantic. Is there a reason I missed for this? Whether…