That was what was also so insulting — he was basically stating since he, a white man, is talking about these issues, that the means the broader music industry has suddenly woken up to issues of race. And by "issues of race," he means his desire to wear his confederate flag t-shirt without getting judgy looks at…

Well-said.

Agreed, and I think that is so well put. I was reading an interview with Natasha Trethewey (in garden and gun, which i totally have a subscription to, lol). She has a collection of poems on the Civil War and she said something so great on the impact of the south and a "literary imagination":

Hey, there, welcome to the internet. If you're going to crucify one clause out of an entire post I make on here, then be prepared to have the same done to you. I stand by the fact that students at private schools generally have better resources and a fuller range of topics available (including topics such as sexual…

Yeah, and you extrapolated my comment to mean that the only public discourse on sex and sex education happens in private schools. My point is that it is much easier to have these discussion in private schools because they are not at the mercy of federal funding and federal regulation, not to mention that they don't…

My smug? I'm sorry — you're the one crowing about how much more enlightened your public school education was simply because it was in one region over another. That doesn't exactly sound to me like something you had direct control over. And my whole comment was on how this ignorance is a problem.

As someone who works in WGSS at the college level, I can tell you that secular private schools — which are not regulated by the state — have significantly greater license to talk about sex and sex education because students are not legally required to be there. My students who come from expensive private schools have…

FluterDale is just reiterating what most of us were taught — she's not endorsing it. In my eighth grade georgia history class, we were given a list of seven reasons why the South seceded — none of which had to do with slavery (this would have roughly been 15 years ago so I don't know if the curriculum has changed…

But does Paisley , anywhere in the song, talk about ending violence against minorities in this country? Does he talk about helping to fix levels of black unemployment, which at 13%, is almost double that of the national average (7%). Does Paisley talk about improving funding to schools in predominantly black…

I think it's important to remember that "nice" people — decent, hardworking people, people who love their wives and kids — can also be racist.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the problem is not Cat Marnell, par excellence, but a publishing and blogging world which says that any voice that is "strong" is worth reading by virtue of its "strength". And by "strong" what we really mean is unabashedly loud about its own privilege and willing to…

I have a crazy great-aunt who says that everytime you give a quarter to a homeless person, they will just go spend it on drugs. And normally I respond by saying you don't know that, individual circumstances, mental illness, history of abuse, systemic poverty, etc. etc.

Wittyname is suggesting that the WSU's first amendment rights are being violated because Towson University refuses to acknowledge them as a group that is supported and affiliated with their university. I'd say that's different than just saying something is "legally permitted"; he's essentially arguing they're being…

"the university cannot deny their status as a club or organization based solely on the content of their message"

Yeah, actually not. Student groups usually have to undergo an application for funding, present a charter or mission statement to the student union/student life office, in order to receive university support. So, no, this group is not entitled to have Towson endorse and support their racist beliefs just because they…

Good Lord, who in Towson's administration even let these racists form this "union"? I would think that the easiest solution would be to dissolve this group from any university association (I'm assuming Towson does not support hate groups on campus) and then if any of these bozos attempts to reconstitute it on campus,…

Love that book! And Wikipedia says Danny Devito is making a film out of it with Saoirse Ronan in the lead!

Agreed. And a little narcissistic?

That book was great. Also, anything by Ann Rinaldi.

Does anyone know, with all the retirements, does American Girl do most of its business with those dolls that girls can pick to look just like them, or is it mostly just new historical dolls?