Complacency seems like a luxury to me. Maybe there are PoC who "don't care" about racial equality, because maybe they feel like racism doesn't affect them. That's great for them I guess. I abhor sexism because it's a form of social injustice. Even if it didn't affect me personally, I couldn't be neutral on the…

I know, it just had the ring of "we're all equal now, feminism is just so quaint" bravado to it. Which could be a complete misinterpretation. I can relate to finding it disappointing when celebrities are "uninterested" because it's nice to have allies in mainstream media, since mainstream media so often dismisses…

So the solution is to forfeit power and responsibility and go back to being subordinates? If feminism is irrelevant, it's only because a good deal of it did succeed.

It's confusing to some people because honestly, the idea that women as a class can and should be as empowered as men doesn't seem that radical or hard to get behind. Maybe it's not your hobby or your career, but why would you be unsupportive of it?

Here's an odd phenomenon (and this may just say more about my personal sample): lots of attractive/successful-with-women men that I know are very reluctant to admit their looks have anything to do with their popularity. Some of them get downright resentful at the suggestion. They seem really invested in the idea…

Yeah, he might have been kind of optimistic in the assessment of how this set of jokes would be interpreted. And I agree that disowning a segment of the black population as "undesirable" does set a kind of example regarding the language people use to describe problems in the black community.

I am NOT at all talking about advocating freedom for the "pretty people."

It's a different motive, obviously. Expressing frustration that every time a member of your scrutinized minority group does something dumb, it reflects badly on you is different from reveling in the fact that every time a member of a minority group does something dumb, it validates your prejudices against that group.

Women who aren't conventionally attractive don't need dress codes to prevent us from wearing revealing outfits; we're sufficiently shamed into modesty. Freedom that didn't just benefit the pretty people would be nice.

There is something horrific about children's capacity to scapegoat and victimize certain individuals, and in this case it culminated in something really devastating.

I think what annoys me is that Americans use cumin as a lazy way to make food taste "ethnic"

Ok so Andy could be short for Andrea. I don't know what Ricky is short for besides Richard although I'm ashamed to realize I was a Ricky Lee Jones fan once and didn't ever notice this.

I think an arepa is more like a taco? Doubles fascinate me as a vegetarian and curry lover. One of my favorite restaurants ever was a vegetarian Indian place that specialized in dosas, NOMNOM.

HEAR HEAR! In unrelated news, a friend just told me about doubles and now my life is incomplete.

Hm. I guess Andy, Ricky, Jess and Hudson threw me. Asterix: I do know a guy named Kale with a twin named Kyle! Do I get a "participant" ribbon? EDIT: and I know what poutine is! And I'm not even a Canuck!

How hard could it be? All you'd have to get right is the bread. The pickled vegetables lend themselves easily to franchises. I'm holding out for kimchi fries (god's junk food) myself.

I used to feel the same way, I hated cilantro except in extremely minimal quantities or else that's all I tasted. It took me awhile to come around to it; I could only stand it in very minute quantities or that's all I could taste. I still feel that way about cumin. The next obstacles are fennel, anise, sassafras…

Well, they already have SriRacha mayo at Subway, soooooo....

Everything else has already been said, so: how many other people read this as "Bride Defends Attacking Newborn Baby..."?

Apparently, my personal prejudice is the opposite of the one posited in the article.