I get that she is immoral by my standards; that was my whole point.

Swear to goddess I don’t know this from experience, but I really feel like it would be difficult to clean blood off of bare WHITE walls?

I am so sorry. This shite sucks! You are not being too sensitive; scary representations of black men are very powerful. When I lived in Europe a decade ago I was saddened by the far-right anti-immigrant propaganda distributed in the neighborhood where I lived. The pamphlets depicted “scary,” “African” immigrants whose…

Wow. I gasped when I saw her picture. She looks puffy and beat up. I’m tearing-up looking at the video!

I have worked at several hospitals and would say that a third factor is also in play: white doctors and nurses think that black persons are more susceptible to drug addiction. Black persons are more likely to be suspected of being drug seekers and white doctors are also reluctant to prescribe pain killers to their…

I can almost buy that photograph until you get to her waist and then you’re in super-goofy, Zoolander territory.

And the lying, right? I mean I know Trump has made us numb to it and all...

Didn’t Transformers : Age of Whatever barely break even?

It’s a tale as old as time: marriage transforms rape into “seduction.”

Perhaps someone should have explicitly specified the obvious: “Irish-Americans.” See also: here “black people” usually means Americans with some ancestors who were slaves before the Civil War.

I do not fully understand what this event was or how access to it was (or was not) controlled. But I think that kicking Ms. Dunham out of the event or photo-shopping her out of the picture is not the right strategy. Then the story becomes: “cat fight!” and thus detracts from Thompson’s important work. The question is:…

Teens occasionally murder each other over fancy sneakers, which are currently legal in most jurisdictions.

Little Women is certainly a boring book. My mother read it to me right after we finished reading the Little House on the Prairie series. It’s a wonder I didn’t die of boredom. I am curious as to why you didn’t like it, since you were at least able to pay attention to it.

I’ll give you The Color Purple, but that’s the only exception in a VERY long career.

So I’m from a city in the Northeast where Ms. Portman’s statement would be taken for gentle ribbing by all but the most uptight among the most uptight (elementary school principles? your friend’s batty mom who’s into crystals? definitely NOT nuns; they taught you this kind of humor). Second, Trump’s election is proof…

Your world view could not be more foreign to me. I literally think it is impossible to make progress toward creating equality without making most people very uncomfortable a lot of the time. This is the very essence of revolutions and social justice movements. I suppose that more incremental progress is sometimes…

Yes. Most persons will not make an effort to help OTHERS but only to help themselves/other-people-like-themselves. So Ms. Portman, like most, is only interested in helping her own particular demographic. But I am very glad that she spoke this uncomfortable truth, even though she did not speak all the uncomfortable…

Yes, someone should have done that. Just because being white is an advantage does not mean that being male is not also an advantage. I wish that Portman had said “WHITE male nominees.”

No one can MAKE anyone feel anything. Perhaps these male directors were reminded of something they already know: the system is not a meritocracy and although there are many talented white, male directors such directors are only considered the BEST directors (which is much more than just “good at their jobs”) year…

You are being too kind. The “Coolest Monkey In The Jungle” is a super-cute hoodie. World-wide there are thousands (millions?) of persons who are not black, do not frequent the H&M website, will think this hoodie is adorable AND will find any backlash from this campaign to be “oversensitive.” Now that these people have…