White women have also been entrusted with the raising of the next generation of white men. The hand that rocks the cradle and all that... Again, it was a joke, it was thought provoking, and it felt fair. 

I think he said “you benefited from this, too” when he talked about white women rolling around in the blood money....

again, this felt fair to me. Sure, you can consider the source. But “I may be bad but I’m not as bad as you are” is a pretty weak defense against being bad. 

Emmett Till is exactly who I thought of when he said that, but I’m glad he didn’t say his name in pursuit of a laugh. Do young white people not know Emmett Till? What am I saying. They don’t know where Spain is, yeah, young white people maybe don’t know Emmett Till.

Yes, let’s do it!

I’m a boomer, he was more my grandma’s thing. Even my Mom would not have felt like John Wayne was “for her”. She had other people she liked. And she’s over 80. 

This is why it feels fair to me. The majority of us wouldn’t even vote for another white woman because patriarchy/white supremacy.

I don’t know, it felt fair. I mean, patriarchy is patriarchy and all that. But white women have reinforced patriarchy and white supremacy at every turn (as a group) so this felt fair.

These folks are constantly being unmasked. As a white person I have questions. Is it easier to pretend to be a person of color than to admit when we benefit from white privilege every day? Is co-opting the identity of a person of color a way that we white people avoid having to confront our own racism or accept…

My hat is off to you working for the National Domestic Violence Hotline. I lost a cousin to domestic violence, which is what drew me to my job at a local agency for survivors of Domestic Violence. I only stayed two years because it was emotionally and physically exhausting. The 40 hour training I took there has made…

I used to work for a domestic violence agency and this is what I learned. Women who tell the responding officers that they are being abused? Are being abused. Often women (who may be dealing with issues like feeling ashamed about abuse, feeling partly to blame, or worried about the potential for escalating abuse) may l…

You said it. HGTV has a lot to answer for.

Seriously--repair bills can be terrible. When my younger brother bought (years before me because he is like that) he had about two years of major buyer’s remorse. It actually triggered a pretty serious depression for him. He got over it, eventually, but the thing about buyer’s remorse is that you can’t get away from…

This explanation resonates with me. Colonization on a micro level. 

It’s not white guilt. I mean, I have white guilt and haven’t pretended to be black or brown. I mean, the white guilt may be there but there’s definitely something else happening as well. No, I don’t know what it is. Jesus—we’re starting to get two of these a week, no?

I do not know what is wrong with us. But someone told me here last week that this is common and it’s definitely feeling like this is absolutely common. 

Is it just me? Or is the ghost of Herman Cain kind of a dick?

Yeah, I hear you. It doesn’t always make sense. When I bought things were different. At that time I got some pretty significant deductions. Now? Thanks to the new tax law, people who buy do not get the benefits that I did. Of course, I’ve owned for a while, so my deductions for interest had lowered significantly,…

True, too much plastic surgery and eventually the face rebels. 

I don’t like to make fun of looks, because for the most part it seems like a loser move. But I have heard that at 20 you have the face you’re born with and at 60 you have the face earn. If that’s true? Someone’s been killing people because ye Gods! I kid, that face is 90 percent fake. She is a walking ad against…