I’m going to hazard a guess that this woman was kicked off, not because of her excellent piano-playing skills or for taking a split-second to unlatch baby from breast to place him in his seat... no, I’m pretty sure it had something to do with her not being the whitest white person ever. I have a degree, and can play a…

Where do you draw the line? I don’t look native, my brother does. We share the same two parents (I only know for certain because my mother gave birth to us both & my idiot father demanded a paternity test for my brother when his hair turned brown). We don’t know our full family history, except that we may have native…

Yes, we can all have ancestors from other countries. But what we cannot do is adopt a culture that isn’t really our own, and profit off of it (like the fellow in the article). So for example, I am white, & I have a varied ancestry with European and First Nations ancestry. I know the specifics of the European ancestry,…

I don’t want to be a white person dominating the discussion or steering it away from the point with a #notallwhitepeople, but some individual pale skinned people are genuinely curious to know their family history, the good, the bad, and the ugly. My family has some First Nations blood, but we don’t identify with any…

I’m sorry you have to experience that. I had the same experience with Imgur, after my husband talked about how awesome it is. It took people insulting me directly, for my husband to really see the misogyny. Now I don’t bother with it, and my husband rarely ventures near it (it’s really only good for mindless…

I have no personal public poop/pee/vomit misadventures to recount. But my daughter had a comical incident. She was less than a year old, and a little backed up, because teething makes babies ornery and they react by refusing food & drink. So I foolishly decided to take her to a shopping mall, to get some holiday…

She is in such an unenviable position. She is married to a pompous, bloated, allegedly drug-addicted, dimwit... with tiny hands. She also has a kid with that guy. And she has probably become accustomed to a certain lifestyle, that she simply could not afford if she were to do the right thing for her child, and divorce…

I stupidly thought I might give myself that option. I didn’t see it as abusing the system, because you might feel differently after one year. I thought I could have time to bond with and nurse my daughter, then figure out some kind of childcare situation that I could afford - the key here being affordability. With my…

It’s because that one time, she helped a guilty rapist go free (with a guilty plea), and called the victim in that case a “liar” (according to a meme full of “facts”), and called all the women her husband assaulted liars, among other choice words (frankly I don’t know how to verify this. It’s easy enough to believe,…

We do get a year, but it’s not paid unless you happen to have worked full time in the last year before going on leave (minimum of 600 hour)- leaving us part-time workers in the lurch, as we maybe manage to work 550 hours before we have to give birth.

You report to the college or university, if it occurred at an event thrown by or sanctioned by the school (like a frat party) or if it happened on campus, so that they can deal with their codes of conduct rules - and maybe have the perpetrator removed from your classes.

I can’t stand to watch violence in fictional stories (like Game of Thrones). It would be a waste of time trying to watch this film. I would rather read about the atrocities of slavery, and the ways that slaves fought against their oppression. Of course, it’s difficult to find mainstream history books that say more…

I guess I should pat myself on the back! I can say with absolute certainty that the vagina is E.

My mother definitely does not regret my name, though I feel she should. It is short enough to justify my frustration with people who can’t spell it or pronounce it. And it may be a biblical name, which isn’t bad, it’s just not my cup of tea. And some evil dictator’s mother had the same name, so that’s no fun. But I…

They are a secondary sex characteristic, not a sex organ.

I visited France a few years ago, when they started talking about banning the burka. I noticed at the airport, that being a blonde white young female, made everything so much easier. I passed through immigration in Munich (for a connecting flight), in just a few minutes, while a Muslim family in the other line took…

Good grief! I can understand banning face coverings, because they impede communication & identification. But banning conservative bathing attire is way beyond reasonable. If I want to wear a beach cover-up, to hide my post-pregnancy squish, I'm going to wear it. Same goes for a Muslim woman who feels modesty is…

I hate to nitpick, but I think you mean anti white-supremacy not anti-white supremacy.

I’m sure they knew about all of it. They just assumed like the average male person, that an acquittal means he is an angel & that audiences would see it the same way because audiences are all male too.

Yep a lot of child rearing does gloss over it. I’m still struggling to understand why that is. I know it’s uncomfortable, but it’s better to have an awkward ongoing conversation about consent, than to say nothing & hope you kid never rapes anyone or never gets raped.