The story itself is about her experience with this brown dude in a foreign land. She was a Cali co-ed. The story is still the same typical story as she presented it. Doesn’t matter if she’s black, white or Asian. The trope of his culture’s stifling otherness against the shock of her feminist awakening is the same old…

So, McGowan did not have an agent, as per her interview with Rich. But she DID have an agency? And she DID know Wenzel and respected her, even tho Wenzel is ostensibly an agent that refused to work with her? Wait...whaaaa?!

Oooh, so he’s being censured for talking about “trade deals” and not because he called Mexicans “rapists”? Okay, Donald. Sure.

She “was” young and naive and self-absorbed, but the author’s tone still conveys that despite the intervening years. It’s that lack of any sense of reflective criticism whatsoever that rankles a bit. Especially when it’s the typical “affair with swarthy, macho man in a foreign land” story that ALL those types of…

“I’m fucking proud of how far you guys and women have come. I’m fucking proud of it, but you forget the women.”

But, you’ve proven that point: “It’s not exactly what you’d think...” Why the fuck not?
I’m black. I have a vagina. Half the members of the NAACP are women. Why NOT wonder about their stance on equal pay? It’s googleable! There’ve been email blasts and press releases. But because folks think…

Equal pay is in the platform of the NAACP. http://www.naacp.org/action-alerts/…

Seriously, they’ve had a Hmong version of Gofundme to pay to select against it. I still don’t see how any of this is going to work. What if the Chosen One has something ELSE wrong? What if he’s just grows up to be an asshole? Lot of pressure.

That’s what I was thinking! “Lotta eggs in one basket...”

They’re from a culture where having a son is super important. There are no other prospects for carrying the name but his. I guess #1 son doesn’t rate. He’s profoundly autistic. She is very sweet, educated and loves her daughters. But...daaang...that’s all I got. Dang.

There is a lady here who has a son. He has autism. She has had 9 more children to get another son. All girls. Her in-laws all are chipping in to pay for sex-selective in vitro for the next try. I sympathize with her, but....damn.

What I’m asking for could be as little as a good ol’ fashioned shunning. It could be, I don’t know, a finger-wagging. It could be ANYthing but silence...

Duly noted.

I’m from Arkansas and I really didn’t see it all that much. A lot of white folks in the south have to live and work next to black folks. There was a resurgence of that foolishness in the last eight years...wonder why...

What’s so weird about the “attention whoring” thing is that if you don’t follow his twitter and instagram, you would have NO. IDEA. what he or any other 16 year old was putting out there. It’s aggregator sites that blow up his tweets. He ain’t emailing old muhfuckas to drop his deep thoughts in their inbox. Folks kill…

I call nip.

j/k. Trust and believe the US could have influence that wouldn’t take a cottonpickin’ invasion to wield.

Actually, I wouldn’t. Not at all. Shit, I volunteered for the Marines when we invaded Iraq. I’m thinking this is a much more justifiable reason for butting in.

I can’t even eat a banana without thinking of the Cuyamel Fruit Company....

Do what we always do when it’s in our interest: interfere.