My mom has had good success talking to garden-variety homophobes. Mostly she listens and asks questions, but when one family friend talked about gays (his daughter included) not being “normal” her response was, “Well, no it’s not ‘normal’ in the sense that it’s the norm, since most people aren’t gay, but it is…

I can’t be the only one who caught Jemma’s “Allons-y!”

especially if your idea of a rugged wilderness man is a less cerebral and more smug, but just as earnest, Bon Iver.

Royal Dansk tins full of sewing supplies are universal—my mom’s got at least three inherited from aunts and grandmas. Or maybe they’re just another thing we white people have culturally appropriated.

A woman’s work is never done. A black woman’s work is never done, either, but she doesn’t get lunch breaks like we do. Sigh.

Once we get everybody in the room, we lock the building and hand the keys to black women. “Here, take these, you go be in charge now, we’ve got a lot of work to do in here. It’ll be awhile.”

I know, right? Came here heeding Michael’s “Come get your girl.” How you want to divide this up? I’ll take east of the Mississippi, you take west? Mason-Dixon line? We’ve got a lot of rounding up to do.

Donated yesterday, but to any Black women from AL that might be reading this:

I feel like I live 400 miles from a mirror universe. Our leader insults, their leader apologizes. Our leader can’t speak one language well, their leader is fluent in two....

I think I read that “even” the lowest-paid NFL player makes a few million. But take a couple million for 3-4 years, take out taxes, spread that amount out over retirement...peanuts. With a side of head injury.

We’ve managed to make our white Thanksgiving not suck so much. There’s about 1/3 of a pie per person, but one of those is pumpkin. I tried to get us to switch to sweet potato pie instead and the entire family was all, “....Why?”

Exactly. What he did was stupid and hurtful, but he’s also one of the only people saying “Yes, this is true. I am sorry, and I will cooperate with any ethics inquiries.” And so far it doesn’t appear to be a pattern with him. I’m not saying there shouldn’t be consequences because he apologized, but what are the…

The first time I scrolled by this headline I thought it said “Steven Spielberg” and I was all, “Where will it end???” But yeah, Steven Segal, absolutely not shocked, he can go away now.

I’m going to echo some other comments and say that it’s perfectly okay for you/your kid to dress up as a specific someone from another race/ethnicity—if you’re emphazising what makes that person unique, not their ethnicity. The Nicki Minaj costume is a great example: your friend was specifically focusing on Nicki’s…

You have an odd child. In the best possible way.

I was really, horribly bullied in 6th grade (like, if social media had existed, there would have been a good chance I would have killed myself). By the whole class, but there were two girls named Jill who really led it.

Also, David Cross married to Amber Tamblyn now, who hasn’t exactly been shy about this whole issue. So yeah, I believe both of them. He was probably a jerk, and it seems like now he knows better.

Say exactly that. I have a few male friends who posted in solidarity, acknowledging there are actions/words in the past they regret, and that they’re committing to do better.

Came here to say the exact same thing. Golden Compass? Brilliant. Subtle Knife? Good. Amber Spyglass? Hated it so much I wanted to throw it across the room.

When my mom told her superiors she was planning to retire, they tried to talk her out of it. Their arguement? “We’ll have to hire two people to replace you!” Her response: “That’s exactly why I’m retiring. I’m exhausted.”