In Manitoba we call it Louis Riel day. He was a Metis rebel leader who was actually hanged for treason but is considered a hero in this part of he country. He’s kinda of like the Canadian equivalent of a Confederate general except Riel was actually standing up for his oppressed people and trying to set them free.

Yes this exactly. Jewish people were offended by Omar’s comments and really that should be the end of the debate here. Not all Jewish people agree with the offended but disagreeing is something of a Jewish tradition so that doesn’t really affect the overall out come. It doesn’t matter what other people think Omar…

You cannot have it both ways and ultimately what Omar said was offensive. If she had used her words better her argument might have landed and not gotten bogged down in all this crap. The bottom line is I think there cannot be two standards if we are going to move forward from merely political correctness to actual…

Yeah her initial statement was fine but clapping back with “its all about the Benjamins” has all kinds of Greedy Jew/Shylock implications. I’m willing to give her the benefit of the doubt but her detractors won’t. I just hope she realises she needs to think before she speaks from now on. It not fair but the GOP is…

Do you realise “calling a spade a spade” is racist because it actually refers to black people and not cards or shovels? I just find it curious your downplaying the Anti-Semetic implications of what Omar tweeted while using what is actually a fairly common racist dog whistle.

Actually there is a whole wealth of information about gender impacts behaviour and why boys and girls are drawn to certain things. Pink specifically maybe not but there a noticeable behavioural difference between boys and girls that transcend culture and socialisation. If there wasn’t Trans people would not have distin…

Children live innocently...until grownups force their hangups/labels on them.

I get what your saying to a point. Some of the “pink is gross” comments from supposed feminists is raising my eyebrows. If gender is a spectrum then there is nothing wrong with being girly. It also feel a little like denying racism by saying “I don’t see colour”. Ignoring the issue won’t make it go away. We need to…

Or perhaps despite your best efforts your daughter simply likes girly things? That is not a bad thing. That’s what concerns me at times with the whole gender neutral down with pink crowd. Sometimes it seems to be very down on being girly. Gender is spectrum like most facets of human behaviour. Being in the middle is…

For some people its not that easy. A lot of cultures who experienced periodic famines tend to have metabolisms that hold on to fat for instance. Or there are people who were raised in a culture where food is tied to affection. If it was really as easy as calories in calories out dieting wouldn’t be a multi-billion doll…

This! Frankly wanting to be beautiful is completely normal animal behaviour. We need to stop acting like its only the vapid and shallow who care. We need a more diverse definition of what beauty is more than we need to beat ourselves up for wanting to be beautiful. Acting like its just silly women who care what we…

It’s not just about men though, if that was true no lesbian would ever care what she looked like. Humans care what they look like, its a normal animal behaviour. Not everyone can just not “give a fuck” its not a failing of their thinking or feminism. We just need to adjust the expectations.

Why though? What is so terrible about a man in a dress? Its just clothes, its not going to make him gay or force him to be a drag queen. Clothing is only defined as male or female because we decide it is. There nothing wrong with a man in a dress anymore than it is wrong for a woman to wear pants. 

Yeah its more of a craftsman fireplace, it looks like Batchelder tile. They used them over on Vintage Flip one episode because they have actual style and taste.

Bernie cannot win the general election he won’t be the democratic nominee for that reason. He will do the same thing he did last time. Do well enough to get far on general votes but not get any super delegates and democratic backers at the convention and lose. As he should, whoever is nominated needs to be able to…

Nail tech has actually exploded in recent years with Shellac polish and Gel nails and a whole bunch of products coming into the market. The real killer probably going to actually be the new drill style files that have been introduced to help shape acrylic and gel nails though. When the drill files off the excess it…

Anything is toxic in high quantities (ie water or oxygen). The key with social media is balance just like anything else. If social media is dictating your behaviour you have a problem. If you are using simply to gather information, which social media is great for than your fine, IMO. 

My first instinctual response to you was roughly “I’d rather stick a fork in an electrical socket”. In any case I doubt it would be productive. Me talking to Trumpers is likely to end with either myself calling them fucking idiot or them calling me a “prairie nig**er” ( A disgusting term for Aboriginals). That’s why…

Its not racist to point out privilege. Equality doesn’t mean white men are actually losing anything other than false favours. Equality means everyone gains the right to be treated equally including white men. True equality means white men get the chance to know they are actually good at something instead of just…

My gut would be report her. The odds of something happening to a child in a case like this are too high.