LOL @ “pretty white lady”

At first I was like “Why the hell is the kitten wearing a dress?”, then I was like “Fuck it. EVERY kitten should wear a dress!”

I’m guessing the FDA thinks you’ll find some way to get high off it.

I think they need to start doing a skit on SNL called “Whoopi’s personal celebrity experience lens” through which every horrible peadophilic or Rapist or violently domestic abusive celebrity or serial killing celebrity is viewed as a saint in ethereal lighting with bunnies at their feet and bluebirds on their…

Taking a page out of that Obummer fella’s handbook, I see. Why does she have time to type a thing on a social media when there are terrorists (the brown kind) trying to make America spanish! No guns and kids can only read books where princesses marry princesses. And that’s if we’re lucky. If she wants my vote, she’ll…

I live at the end of a 5 1/2 minute hallway...just so you know.

well actually three if you believe the rumours

I have a child who is my doppelganger. I’ve always felt badly for him, a teen boy, being told he looks just like a middle-aged woman. He grew a beard, so I shave mine.

Yes! I used to work for a residential school that trained childcare workers making 10 bucks an hour how to hold a child without hurting them. The training was only a couple of days, but there were few injuries, especially considering how regularly kids totally wigged out. Of course, those workers actually cared about…

I hear what you’re saying. And I appreciate that you’re using a constructive, respectful tone to say it. But I just cannot agree.

I think so. Black men are automatically suspicious; being half naked just calls attention to the stereotype of black virility (which you think about even if it’s not actually true). You can ogle women of any color (a different kind of freak-out), but the minute any of them start acting like anything other than a Lady…

Cooties.

There’s probably some “polluting the water” bullshit idea in play.

Why pools in particular? Because we still have the perception (buried deep) that black people do not or should not enjoy bodily autonomy the same way "real" people do. That gets highlighted in an in-your-face sort of way when you have a bunch of people in swimsuits. I think it's a sliding scale, too. Bad if you're a…

I think the difference is that people believe that trans people have brains of the other sex, or something like that, and that brains are more important than bodies when it comes to identity (hence the idea of being born into the wrong body), whereas as far as I know there is no argument that blacks and whites have…

Exactly. I can’t help but think that a lot of the really hateful commentary about her (and OF COURSE there are tons of issues with what she did, foremost being lying) comes from people who are pretty secure in their racial identities. I’ve seen so much racial essentialism - “You are what you are, period,” that I’m…

Seconded. I am in NO WAY team Rachel. I think what she’s done here is disgraceful and I don’t think a white woman can go around claiming to understand the struggle of the black experience. That shit is inexcusable. However, since this story broke I’ve been seeing a lot of hating going on in regards to people who are…

I’m with you right here. I’m mixed race as well and I constantly have my identity validated and invalidated by those around me. Some tell me I’m white, some tell my I’m black, some tell me I’m chinese, others call me a fucked up mix, just a hodge podge, a freak- and I don’t want to pass as anything, I just want to be…

In my opinion, ethnicity isn’t something one can really move in and out of physically or mentally.