“You do research, you ask people.” which is what TS did- and not just any random POC, but MC- whose public profile for the past few years has been built around this very issue. I’m still not sure what TS did wrong here. And to the extent to which the notion of “casting an Asian” is itself offensive, since it lumps in…

what do men do at a typical bball game: 5% watch the game, 95% drink beer and talk s**t. That’s not usually worthy of comment.

Parappa the Rapper:

A minority kid who did this would be adjudicated, in all likelihood- even the "innocent" stuff is only perceived of as innocent when you're a white, bohemian, middle class kid. According to the HRW report, kids as young as 9 can be adjudicated and could end up on the sex offender registry: http://www.hrw.org/node/1151…

In as much as there is a downside to Davis's admission, it is that it does follow the template for a "good" abortion.

If you look at Science's "social issues" cover images over the past few months- and there aren't many of them- they are more likely to not show faces than to show them. The vast majority of Science cover photos are microscopy images, proteins, etc. so I don't see how it's possible to finger this image as being…

What is this, LightyearGate? It seems pretty unnecessary to have 150 comments discussing the veracity of this trifle.

Correction: *not* putting a space between trans and woman. Which is bad, but if you're talking about a transman, it's not bad, because reasons. Despite the fact that tryker and Whittle's Transgender Studies Reader uses the terms transwoman and trans woman pretty interchangeably, and there's been little consistency in…

This probably doesn't apply to this source, which is just another second rate online entertainment news site, but for larger media concerns, writers don't just get to choose the words or pronouns they might prefer. Style guides are slow to change for at least some of the reasons you mention above, and just because…

Bold statement, that.

"Congrats on recognizing that systemic racism and sexism and homophobia exist in the world? Thank you for joining the fight against hate?"

The original article has a spectacular flaw at its center, which was quickly picked up in the Slate comments, few of which agree with the story: "it is rare to see negative portrayals of large cities on television or in the movies." This strikes me as being almost laughably untrue, especially in the detective genre.

Anybody post this yet?