Most white people would benefit from the elimination of racism. But most white people benefit more from from the existence of racism. I know, as a white person, that my life if easier because of racism. I know, for instance, that I don't have to compete with a large portion of the population for good, reasonably…

Honestly, the reason we enjoy this story is because we would prefer to think about adoption without having to think about the severing of the connection between mother and infant that takes place with every adoption. In this story the mother is almost erased. We know there was a mother.... but a baby showing up in a…

To me a man doesn't have the right to call himself a feminist until he's done three things:

Honestly, the nurse's humor reminds me of the corny humor employed in Bris cards all the time. It's obnoxious cause it's corny. But that's about it.

If you read the gawker article on MF the thing that jumps out at you is that men are able (or feel able) to shut down any woman who says that she doesn't like MF with one sentence: "You have no sense of humor." Telling women they don't have a sense of humor has become the new telling women they are prudes. Because,…

I actually think that the army should be 100% conscripted. If anyone between the ages of 21 and 41 could be drafted into the army, and if they actually had to serve regardless of educational prospects (i.e. $) or other "special" considerations then people would fucking participate in the political process.

Christine Teigen's tweet is infinitely more offensive than the Onion's.

I can totally see QW as an Annie or a Pippi Longstocking. (Can we please bring back Pippi, by the way?)

Am I the only one who found this scene from "The Ugly Truth" disgusting in an unintentional way? This is these scene, by the way, where Katherine Heigl gets roped into going to a work dinner with colleagues when she is supposed to be on a date and the remote control to her vibrating panties falls out of her purse and…

That's all true. But the nice thing about living in the US is you actually can take whatever degree you got in undergrad and do whatever you want with it. Most jobs that require you to have a BA really just require your to have ANY BA. They are only specifically interested in what you can do. Only jobs that require a…

I guarantee you that your problem is not your major. In the US, you can do virtually anything with any degree. Literature? Sociology? History? Philosophy? It really doesn't matter. All that employers want is to see that you have a useful skill set. Using the skills you have to complete a series of projects while you…

Oh, I definitely agree that in real life women tend to age at least as well as men. My point is that, culturally speaking, the potential to be an "object of desire" just doesn't exist for women over a certain age. There may actually be more women than men over forty who are in good shape and have nice skin and dress…

Not a big deal. That's a brain fail. Not a boyfriend fail. People call their children by the names of their dead pets.

I agree with lookingglass that the choice of a big pit-bull to represent a black man was a poor and revealing decision. But I think that Jennifur Lawrence is spot on.

You are %100 right. Though I would add that on the west coast the association is additionally with the "criminallatinoman."

I'm about your age and I feel your pain. I find it incredibly unjust that a man my age can look forward to being sexy and handsome for ten-twenty years to come, while I will never be anything but but "attractive for her age." Men get as many as 30 years to be sexual, attractive beings. Women don't even get half that.…

Lundy Bancroft has written at length about the myth of the abused heterosexual man. But, this is one of my favorite things he has said:

I thought having it locked up was a good thing. Was I wrong?

Oh. I haven't seen hoarders in so long. I really want to watch that episode now.

It's really not. It's a complicated issue. But to begin with, rats are (contrary to popular perception) extremely picky eaters. There is almost nothing that is attractive to all rats. Beyond that, there is a grain of truth to the old myth that rat colonies have "tasters." Rats are coprophagic (meaning that they eat…