i don't think you're a jerk! also, i'm always torn on the bitch thing b/c i use it (mostly as a term of endearment) though i get the objections... obviously i'm biased b/c my own frequent use of it but i wonder if it just hasn't become like dude or something similar?

it sounds backwards now, at least to me. I believe it is just colored for a new generation and i still don't understand why it was ever accepted...

much better - now don't you feel like this might engender a discussion (which i think could be pretty illuminating!)?

Kinda casts the whole "(well equipped) Imperial European countries spiriting away Egyptian artifacts to Britain" in a brand new light when Egyptian museum curators are apparently this incompetent.

I want to get on board with this series but it honestly just seems like an excuse to bag on strangers and really petty. Sororities have arbitrary and ridiculous rules regarding grooming and behavior? You don't say! It's a private club, if people want to pay to have their lives run that way who cares? Greek life is…

"White people outside of the South seem to learn about the Civil War and civil rights movements from an incredibly safe (and often judgmental) distance."

Not sure what the point of this article is. America has a racist past? No way.

rude to talls

Shit, I haven't seen Precious but I probably wouldn't realized he was even if I have. My gaydar is non existent.

Perhaps you should put down the PhD before you wind up broke, unemployed and homeless like most academics. Arabs are not the same thing as Muslims. We are saying the SAME THING! We are both discussing religions. Israel is a Jewish state, and there are Muslim majority states as well. The end. Bye.

Schooled! People use that disgusting pedantic line "How can I be anti-semetic when I am a semite?" so Sparrowmint had to set you straight. Islamophobia is the word for "anti-arab" we can change it to anti-Jewish but everyone knows what anti-semetic means.

we all gotta be real honest with ourselves and admit that there is a serious dearth of black male gay characters on television

And the swastika is an icon of peace!!!!!!!!!

I would like to cut and paste that for pedants I encounter on this issue in the future. This frequent 'point' is an attempt to derail the conversation and a way of trying to sound smart.

You can be ignorantly pedantic all day, but you know damn fucking well that the term "anti-Semitic" refers to hatred of the Jewish, not the entire "semitic" ethnic group. That is the exclusive definition of that term. Have a fucking problem with that? Go back to the 19th century when the term was created.

Israel is a Jewish country. People who dislike someone purely because they're from Israel are pretty shitty people.

I guess in Lebanon it's in vogue to be anti-semitic.

And the women who've actually read the script and decided to align themselves with the project are incapable of seeing this - or nah?

...The director wrote the movie. It'd be one thing if a woman wrote it and got all of these other female producers on board only to randomly pick a male director, but...Mills wrote it.

I'm all for diversity. I'm all for more women being involved in Hollywood at all levels. Where you lose me is when you start dictating what stories male or female directors have the right to tell. It sounds like Mike Mills will not only direct this movie, he's also writing it. So if you're offended that Mike Mills is…