I don’t claim to speak for black women. I am a brown guy who was born after this movie came out and my exposure to American films till I became a teenager did not involve this movie. Come to think of it, I only knew a handful of black actors till I turned 16 or 17 and that included Samuel Jackson (mainly because of…

“I apologize, if I was improperly understood.”

It isn’t simply the wording. Spielberg did in 1985 what most other famous white male directors didn’t do - picked a black star from Broadway and cast her in an adaptation of a book dealing with endemic racism, sexism, domestic violence, and destitution. There were very few mainstream movies that delved into these…

The “larger issue” for me is the deliberate erasure of the contribution of people of color. Yes, this is my biggest gripe with white feminism. If that makes me “one of those 4Chan trolls”, I’m completely fine with it. Elizabeth Banks, by“forgetting” The Color of Purple and co-producing/directing Pitch Perfect movies…

He “created” the movie. When did I say that he wrote the story?

The “white woman” stuff is a distraction from her main and very important point.

So wait, Banks gets to call out a director for not having female leads but others cannot call her out for ignoring a movie that the said director created with a black female lead? Hmmm, interesting.

Honda has proved that they are not capable of pulling this off. They are now truly the masters of beige and barring a few motorcycles and the Civic Type R, cannot pull off a good engine.

You know this is especially egregious. If you are on a work visa in the US and you get fired, you are fucked. You get deported if you can’t find another job that will sponsor your work visa within 30 days. So no, getting fired is not cool. Also,

When you are a foreign national coming to the US you have all your fingerprints taken and stored. The laws that “seemingly protect” citizens here do not cover us. I am pretty cool with it, really, since by law I am supposed to provide fingerprints whenever asked and always carry a copy of my immigration papers with…

Probably everyday people should not be sharing their private pics and videos on Instagram. There, now we have come a full circle.

You no longer want them on the site but you don’t want to delete them.

How is the statement that you are not the same person now that you were two or three years ago be the answer to the question “why upload something you don’t want to share?” Just because you think it answers the question doesn’t mean it really answers it. If you have 100 private videos that you think are important…

Use it as storage? Memories only you can see?

I would have signed up for this back when I was an international student with no SSN (and hence no credit cards). Right now the Amazon Prime Credit Card gives me 5% cash back on all purchases on Amazon which is a much better deal.

This is plain weird. Taylor Swift uses her newfound feminism to portray an image of social awareness to sell more albums. Then if she doesn’t use her platform to comment on the 2016 elections (which would have caused her to lose fans) then she is criticized. Katy Perry goes the other route, where she once explicitly…

There’s a big dollop of irony in the anniversary. Sure, hippies were the stereotype about the city for decades after the Summer of Love, but in the last decade San Francisco has been essentially drowned in tech money, rendering much of the city unaffordable to all but the wealthiest. The name once conjured images of…

Never seen it.

Were you planning to go there, to begin with? Because that would have been quite stupid.

If you think this is an arsenal or in any way terrifying, you’d probably drop some mud on the spot if you saw the back of my truck loaded up for a trip to the range with multiple AKs or ARs, shotguns, and several handguns with several thousand rounds of ammunition on hand. You might feint if you saw the inside of any…