@SorciaMacnasty: Good for you for realizing the first bit. I looked at it and instantly thought "Well, this is for me, then."

@a4ashley: And I love how certain diseases/disorders have been so popularized as being for one race, that they're hard to escape. Low iron levels/anemia is high on my white mother's side... but all the times I've visited a doctor, they assume I have sickle cell.... which is impossible given my genetic makeup.

@buzzgirl: He is the most awesome anything ever. Have you seen his bit on white time travelers?

@a4ashley: That's a little hybrid vigor-y for this mixed gal right here. It doesn't really work that way, and I'm sort of compelled to argue that I face some interesting problems when I go to the doctor. Everything is broken down by race when it comes to "how likely you are to..." statements, or even measurements.

@Cytochromeo: Yep, though so. And my reference holds up.

@nobodyr: If I remember the reference of this, it's very uh... Shortbus-esque. Man, I don't get to reference that movie enough.

@I'm Ron Burgundy?: I do take offense at the word, I'm not going to rescind that. And I said I'm against butchering literature. I'm saying that the word itself is part of a larger problem in how slavery is taught in the US. And citing one example like "The Boy In The Striped Pajamas" (very new book) doesn't mean it's…

@najmah: I totally agree. I mentioned in another comment that I would much rather have a biographical/fictional equivalent of how the holocaust is taught. I would much rather get a story from the Anne Frank side of it all instead of one from the side of the oppressors, if you know what I mean.

@I'm Ron Burgundy?: I'm glad you see that. The problem with having that book be the end all and be all of books (more like book, singular) that kids are exposed to, is the fact that it presents the story mostly from "the other side". That's why I brought up Anne Frank. While the true story is terrifying, the fact that…

@I'm Ron Burgundy?: So why aren't you instead suggesting ways it can be taught to enforce respect in the same way we do the holocaust? (I don't remember kids laughing at it in the same way they did when it comes to slavery) I -wish- we had read an Anne Frank equivilliant instead or in addition.

@I'm Ron Burgundy?: Mmm, snark. There was once instance of "n-word" to literally say that replacement word. No need to pull some "grown up" speech. To be quite honest, I doubt you'll really hear any of the other opinions posted on this story, beyond going "well, I saw some people who didn't say they were offended, so…

@returnofthehoney: I'm confused by what you mean. Are you saying that all black people use the n-word anyway? Do you? I have to say I didn't grow up with it. And what of context? "Bitch" can both not bother someone in one context while being horribly offended in another.

Maybe her screw up was on not perceiving this piece of tissue in the same was as other tissue they might see in a lab. Maybe it was obtained from a live woman, instead of a cadaver, which I could see sort of changing someone's perception of it. That, and it seems more like tissue than say like... a severed hand or…

Imagine being in an all boy's class, where the word "cunt" or "bitch" is used to refer to the female character in a book read aloud. And each time it is said, boys look at you to see your reaction, or laugh.

@Sed_Quis_Custodiet...: I'm pretty sure it's a teardrop tattoo, two of them... which would mean the unicorn has murdered two people.

@bigazzkid: More like hipstertacular.

I swore that tattoo link was going to be this one.

@MaggieF: Sounds about right. :)

@Eldritch: I think the benefits of dressing a kid up in white suits and training them to have Gregory Peck's voice overrides the risks.

I'm not so much a fan of aspirational naming "Destiny, Chastity, etc", but man do I love a good literature reference in a name.