The UN has decades of studies on war to back this up. And you have?

“To read as a white woman in 2020 demands the agential seeking of discomfort.”

It takes willful ignorance to maintain such bliss. If you’d asked May Welland, she’d say her marriage was entirely happy. She would not admit to the machinations that kept Newland at her side. With willful ignorance you don’t have to engage in messy debates. You don’t have to see the invisible hand of privilege. You…

I think the intent and audience matters too. A private family making a good-faith attempt to help a child dress as a favourite footy player, can probably be cut some slack. A “Fox Sports personality dressed as Kaepernick”...not so much.

Based on the article, I don’t think it would technically have been blackface if it had been a white guy dressed up as Kaepernick, as there would still not be an element of darkening of the skin, or an attempt to impersonate a “generic” black person by dressing up as some kind of cultural or ethnic stereotype. Would it…

That’s not a white guy in that picture. It’s Christoper “Kid” Reid from the group Kid n’ Play who is bi-racial just like Kaepernick. Not that it makes the lampooning any less egregious as it was meant to downplay and ridicule Kaepernick’s protest, but in this case no not blackface. 

The act of impersonating a stereotypical idea of a person racially typed as “brown” in order to parody an entire race or nation.

it seems Rapoport also needs education on how to not talk down to people as a matter of simple civility/diplomacy.

Steve had unexpectedly great arms, but let’s not forget the skid marks on his tighty-whities. 

This. And she’s clearly talking about herself, she’s not giving advice, not everything someone says has to apply to everyone. Talk about interpreting something in the nastiest, most bad-faith way possible. 

She didn’t say depression is beautiful. She said she’s learned to find her own depression beautiful. Depression is different for everyone; I don’t see the harm in her trying to see the positive side of her mental illness.

And I don’t even think she was describing depression as beautiful but the intensive sensitivity to the world that may have been the locus of it. 

Exactly.  There’s a big difference between “these crystals will cure your depression” and “I’ve learned to live with my depression in a way I can experience as beautiful.” For her to describe the latter is not a personal attack on people who don’t share her experience, but this article sure feels like a personal…

This x 100.

I swear that men’s inability to learn how to social distance is the reason that men that are being hit harder by this illness.  

Imagine expressing how you have learned to cope with your mental health, only to be told you’re wrong because it might not be relatable for everyone.

I’ve been lucky enough to have only left I think 3 times since late March, but my anecdotal evidence completely agrees with this. What’s crazy to me is when I see people shopping together, and the women will be wearing a mask and the man won’t be. Like what the hell? Really? Beyond the fact that did both you need to…

I had an ex who wouldn’t even use an umbrella because he said it was weak and not manly. I can’t even believe I was with him for 6 years, it feels like a feverish nightmare.

Well, this is a group of people that even before this shit happened were convinced they didn’t need to wash their hands after peeing. I’m proud to say I have hounded my 75 year old Dad into constantly washing his hands and he is the mask King, and he washes his mask regularly, and he carries hand sanitizer and a towel…

I wonder how much of this relates to work culture of professions dominated by dudes. My own discussions with highly educated genuinely whip smart white collar co-workers confirm that this isn’t just a thing with disaffected uneducated white guys from rural Alabama named Cletus. It’s a problem with masculine culture,…