“Without You There Is No Us is a touching tale of a woman who travels to North Korea to find answers ... and ends up finding herself, and a steamy new romance!”

Ugh. This is so, so depressing because you know if she were a white dude people would just be killing themselves to laud his bravery and journalistic integrity.

Don’t you know that the experiences of the world’s cultures are only valid if seen through a white, western lens? The actual experiences of the people who live in those societies are not to be trusted because they might have preconceived ideas.

This is insulting to her journalistic integrity and how much risk she took, but not surprising. I have noticed that a lot of books authored by women are marketed to fail. A few years ago, I decided to make an effort to read more female authors (and have read some amazing books as a result), but I can't get past the…

“her first job (at Contempo Casuals!)”

What is this? Are we going to do this thing where we pretend this lady is now someone we must keep up with? Why? Can we not? Let her fade into the ether. No one cares about thirsty Becky or her hair.

I only have basic cable, so this is my first time watching Jesse’s speech. I really wish social media and the media hadn’t made it all about Justin Timberlake. All I see are headlines about JT, while the original message is pushed aside so a bunch of mouth breathing online commenters can turn this back into how black…

Oh Justin you sweet naive summer child...you done fucked up! That’s first tweet was fine but damn if you didn’t put your foot in your mouth with that second one and black twitter came for that ass accordingly

Basically, Justin Timberlake gentrified and appropriated Jesse Williams speech...then critiqued someone’s resistance.

I truly don’t understand how anyone could have watched Jesse’s speech and come away with the message that “we are all the same/there’s only one race and that’s the human race”, but I guess that’s white privilege for you. Also Justin Timberlake seems kinda dumb.

the fact that JT was responding to the comments just shows how huge his ego is.

JFC. I love how completely this post has managed to exhibit Jesse’s point about equality.

It had “Oh you sweet soul” which is equally condescending if not worse

He listened to that whole speech and somehow came away with “we are one race”. That is...a unique skill.

It would be hard to have a conversation with Justin if he refuses to address the subject at hand. All that was missing from that tweet was “bless your heart”.

I lived a half hour from this border until I turned 15. I guarantee you there are some die hard Muslims who will fast no matter what. My 90 year old, diabetic grandmother insists on fasting to her own detriment, despite pleading from all her relatives to just fucking eat something. So I do know whereof I speak.

So what’s the trick here? Fire on skin causes devastating injuries, so how can people walk on it or hot coals and not burn the hell out of their feet?

was one of them this guy?

Firewalking is a perfect metaphor for Tony Robbins. It is a simple parlor trick that is simple physics and if you think about it clearly for one minute, you realize it means absolutely nothing. Tony Robbins is a puffed up confidence man and when you think about him clearly for one minute you will realize that he has…

So when this happens to, like, two dozen people who’ve gone before you, WHY DO YOU STEP ON THE COALS??