You and I and almost everyone on this thread realizes that was NOT your original point. You didn’t start this in defense of Kantor and Twohey.

I got the opportunity that most folks of my ilk got. I’m good.

Discussions about privileges, centering, marginalization, cronyism and/or nepotism CAN be had about the breaking of this case. Not for nothing, it’s Farrow doing the junket and not the two women, Kantor and Twohey, who broke it first. BUT THIS MUHFUCKA UP THERE?!!! Nope. Inappropriate. Off-base. And completely…

I’m a black, disabled, queer woman from the south and I don’t resent a fucking to-the-manor-born journalist one bit. He hasn’t taken a thing from me and, with this gig, has given so very much back to me. Hush.

Wish I’da known that before I looked so gauche at Tiffany’s. You should have seen her face, it had “bless your heart” (sincerely) all over it.

I was so embarrassed! That’s probably why I spent more money than I had to — to PROVE I wasn’t some rachet chick trying to pretend I got my ring from Tiffany’s. I don’t have a lot of regrets, but being that silly is one of them.

Oh, normally I could go on ALLLL day! 

NOW ya tell me!

So, I’ll preface this by saying I used to be a dumbass labelwhore...

My husband caught this. A few years ago, he cut his finger at work. It looked infected and I joked with him that he needed to go in and get it seen or he’d lose it. Cut to a week later and he has the “flu”. I come home from work and his nose, lips and ears are blue. Two weeks unconscious, 4 months in ICU, kidney…

Plus, Harvey just paid for his engagement party, like, a month ago!

Start early. And not just about folks walking down the street.

Mother of two daughters and I am a cheerleading coach: I actually meet with any one with extended contact with my child and tell them, “I’ve trained my daughters to inform me of any untoward behavior towards them. Good touch, bad touch, suggestive language and grooming behavior. What’s y’all’s training with the rest…

I loved this movie! Cackled, HARD. First online convo I had with some other sisters who saw it had one of them complaining about the representation of black marriage. Therein lies allz the rubz: one story can not represent all of our stories. It can’t. I was happy to see Jada’s straight-laced sista next to the…

She’s right here in Minnesota, being beautiful and coaching ice skating.

But isn’t that how power works, tho? If a person is in an industry with abusive folks but wants to work, wants to eat, they make those concessions every day. I’m a black woman who teaches in a public school. I could go on and on about racist curriculum, maintaining hegemonic tiers of supremacy and the school to prison…

Willona Woods, the “Rhona Barrett of the projects!” That’s EPIC! I met Bern Nadette Stanis (Thelma Evans from Good Times) at Essence Fest and almost fell out. She was the epitome of gorgeous black womanhood for a nine year old Pearl back in the day and I still style my workclothes after her. She is also still drop…

I know...I know...he almost lured me back in. That charm, that insouciance, that “science the shit outta this.” THAT’s the ‘alright whiteguy’ camo that masks the smug self-assuredness that HE knows what’s right and true and correct and anyone who doubts him, well, it’s not our fault we’re not THERE yet...fuck him. I…

Son of an educator, got some of that “Boston whiteboy” cred, and carried the gloss of his genius character Will Hunting for me for way longer than I’m proud to admit...plus Bourne. I loved the first two Bourne flicks. Then he. started. talking. Killed any attraction I had for him. And you nailed exactly why.

I used to crush on homeboy HARRRRD. But between Project Greenlight “diversity matters in front of the camera but let white folks handle the directing” bullshit and the “don’t say you’re gay, you should be a blank canvas/here’s me and my wife on the red carpet” fuckery, I was turning cold on him. Then he released that…