Oh hey, is that a king cake? That seems much less disturbing. [en.wikipedia.org]

Hearted so hard!

Actually, I find it nauseating. It takes a lot of the fantasy elements out that is typical in porn or schoolgirl anime and paints it for the dismal slave market that it really is.

WICKED. I had no idea!

Wait a sec. Sharks aren't mammals. They don't have wombs, right?

Brilliant!

The distinction, as I see it, is not just being well-mannered and polite, but genuinely trying to let the other person know that you think they're special, which sounds like a total bullshit cliche, but is actually very sweet. It's not sexist to hold a door or offer to pay if the reason for doing so is that you want…

Holy shitballs, Terry McMillan. Delighting in torturing any living thing to death and bragging about it online is EXTREMELY TROUBLING behavior.

Because if she was make up like this, I'm pretty sure people would get pissed. [sarahsilvermanonline.com]

GAH, Redface strikes again! Khloe Kardashian, you are not now, nor have you ever been, a Native American. So fucking sick of this!!

Right on! I also get twitchy reading about this navel-gazing pretension, though I myself have backyard chickens and am learning to knit and grow food. It's not glamorous or self-congratulatory. Cleaning a coop is stinky business, lugging compost is a pain in the back, and knitting makes for cramped fingers. I love it,…

You know, what really offends me about these photos isn't the sexualization aspect, though I definitely see that. It's the whole white-kids-wearing-feathers-and-warpaint bullshit. When did Redface become not only socially acceptable, but a sign of high taste?

Me too! I loved that episode. And I also won an argument with my husband using a Mr. Rogers episode as evidence that peanut butter is not, in fact, made from peanuts and butter. Hubby's a really smart dude, so I'm pretty sure he was trying to BS me with that one. But I still gotcha'd him, thanks to Mr. R.

It's my understanding that there is a history of geophagy (consumption of soils and clays) in a lot of West African countries, and that this historically shaped the practice of geophagy among some African American and Afro-Caribbean communities. It used to be considered synonymous with pica, but a lot of social…