Yeah, the woman of color who founded Food 4 Haiti is a “racist asshat”... I don’t know why it can’t ever simply be that someone made a mistake.

I don’t think the author is racist, necessarily. The book is written by a woman of color, illustrated by a black woman, and edited by a black woman who won the Coretta Scott King prize for a book she herself wrote in 2013. I agree that the book is problematic, but I would hesitate to call its makers racist.

I also write about food and culture and have written a children’s book. While it’s not uncommon for people to try new genres and styles that might be out of their depth (I do not consider myself a kid’s author), Scholastic and the editor should have known better. I appreciate the author’s attempt, and I don’t think…

Specifically, just this comment.

You’re just full of lovely stereotypes aren’t you? Let me guess - you don't make much money and use that as a reason why women don't want you. Hint: it ain't the paycheck

Why would implicit bias have to be an explicit conspiracy carried out by a “sexist cabal” in order to be a part of the show’s production? There’s plenty of evidence for the power of gender bias to shape our decisions, whether we’re aware of it or not. How we decide who and what is innovative, and what personalities…

Oh you’re right! Everything is equal! In fact-the overcompensating has gone TOO FAR just last week I read an article that said women make 25 percent more than men on average!! Crazy.

There is clearly nothing I can say to inform you about the casting process in television. It’s based on my experience in the industry for over a decade, but that’s not good enough. You seem hell bent on making the argument that women are just not bringing forth these businesses and ideas even though there are…

Casting for TV is first and foremost about entertainment and what they believe the audience will watch. I would bet my life that women with tech or non traditional business ideas are being left off. The television industry still has a problem with women who are assertive and confident and who might call out bullshit.…

Sure on the show there are more of the products that you are talking about. Not all but there is merit to your observation, even if your statement reads as dismissive. However the problem is deeper than what appears on the episode. The show goes through a casting process. Remember this is TV so the process of bias…

That’s the thing, these guys don’t seem to want to be partners and parents, they want the “happy family bundle” that media/society/etc sells men as requiring no work beyond bringing home the bacon.

Case in point.

Absolutely. If you look at the diagram of “young women interested in men 10-15 years older,” “women interested in settling down and having children soon, but not too soon,” and “women interested in dating men who work until 8:00 and go out to drink and pick up casual partners on worknights,” there’s just not a lot of…

THIS. The whole article is a veiled tantrum about 25 year old women not being interested in them anymore. If they cared so much about having a family they could marry a woman their age, take all the money they earned focusing on career, and use alternative avenues for creating a family

I’ve known a lot of Christians who got various types of cancer, and they all went with allopathic medicine. One of the most devout Christians I’ve ever known, in fact, is an oncologist. Only the kookiest ones skip the traditional, empirically sound medicine.

When the alternative treatment for cancer is dandelion greens, reiki, and crystals, then yeah, I think it is frowned upon. There’s a lot of complementary alternative treatments that aren’t (yoga, acupuncture, etc.), but they’re complementary, not substitutions.

First, seeking alternative treatments is frowned upon for cancer patients if it involves giving up the allopathic ones (see: Steve Jobs, Jessica Ainscough, others), because by the time you see it’s not working, change your mind and go back to your oncologist it may well be too late.

Exactly. Has it ever happened with a mother and son? Or even with a father and daughter where the daughter was given up for adoption by a couple of teenagers who didn’t feel able to raise a child? It seems like it’s always a father/daughter where the father walked out or was denied access and the daughter ended up…

The thing that puzzles me most is people acting like a dad drinking beer with his 18 year old daughter in a park at night is just another normal activity. Second is how saying that translates to victim blaming, absent more.

Sounds like her father isn’t so much a hero/witness (let alone a perfect one) as he is also a rapist.