This is so great. Now I need to find that lifehacker post about how to share things with the asshole coworkers without looking like a passive aggressive asshole yourself.
God, if only people would say “I don’t know” more often. It really is a perfectly acceptable answer.
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Its either/or or a combination of both horrible implications:
I wish you’d run up and down the thread and post that link in response to EVERY SINGLE MAN in here “butbutbut”-ting and doing the #NotMe like Russell Simmons and the #NotAllMen like a full-on Matt Damon. That piece was written just about a decade ago, and we’re still having this conversation. Literally tens of…
They’ll apologize to the man you’re with for putting the moves on you. Where’s MY apology, homes????
For a man, being ditched at a party is an inconvenience; for a woman it can be a death sentence. Classic male centered worldview.
I definitely want to keep her response in my back pocket to pull out when trying to explain this to men.
That is from her first album, All Hail The Queen. I think UNITY was done for the Girlstown soundtrack.
I recently recounted for some friends an incident that occurred on a Los Angeles train where a white woman sitting…
I got banned from Jezebel for taking issue with their recommendation that women should pack their vaginas with Chinese-made polyurethane sponges designed for “external use only.”
“racist toward whites”
OMG, yes. It was like back in the slavery days of Rome when the rich slave owners used to call the slaves Beccicus; which meant ignorant but came to embody being something less than a person. Then all those laws that discouraged voting and shared public spaces...wait, none of that ever happened.
Becky is a name. Nigger is a slur.
Someone commenting on that article added Boudica and said once upon a time she was considered a WOC. Boudica, Queen of the Britons.
The greys are big mad y’all
It’s for the science.
Apparently, being afraid is a fundamental aspect of being a police officer. Afraid of that kid? Shoot on sight. Though you smelled weed? Terminate with prejudice. Got called somewhere and there’s only a black person when you arrive? Better them than you? Somebody clue you in on good info? Get them kicked the fuck out.…
Well, you guys are also good for opening jars.