Bigotry is bigotry. Parsing racism from xenophobia from Islamophobia is trying to distance yourself from people you consider to be bigots while defending your own bigotry. Zimmerman is not using the term “dirty Muslim” because he has concerns about theology. Calling dark people “dirty” is about the oldest play in the…

This story only starts out like a horror story. It was horrible for me at the time. My boyfriend and I were celebrating our first Thanksgiving together. It was also just a couple years since my Mom died, a loss which had blasted a huge hole in our family. We scattered after that and had Thanksgivings either alone or…

Now, now, now, wait.. just wait a damn minute... so HE is the one who was “lost” not all of the things? So, she was helping to remind him who they were and who he was? ??!!?!?!? IS THAT WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE?!?!?! CAUSE I HAVE A LOT OF FEELS ABOUT THIS!!!!! RIGHT IN MY HEART-SHAPED FEELS CONTAINER!

I work for an order of nuns. I am not Catholic but I can say, it definitely depends on the type of order. The Sisters I work for are service-oriented (not cloistered), and they were thrilled to let go of the habit and the religious names as soon as Vatican II happened. The only way you know they’re Sisters now if you…

Annie Hall? Annie fucking Hall? In what way is this punch to the nutsack with a steel fist funny? Sorry, this entire list is invalid because of this poor choice.

Okay, I went and read the linked article. I think you legitimately had a short-circuit in your reading comprehension, Jane, no snark. All is says is that the price alone isn’t an indicator of quality, because so much of it goes to shit like marketing/packaging. That is not the same as saying the product isn’t better.

Deborah Lippman just came out with an Empire collection.

Bern Bernie Bern ice cream - a sweet cream base with fair trade cinnamon, ginger, and curry, and a honey-chili swirl.

Lifting the text word-for-word from another source (here, the NY Daily News) is commonly known as plagiarism and will get you expelled from any self-respecting university.

Never said you were mean just that you were being mean! I think Kim could just use a break. I know she's not 100% perfect all around and sometimes doesn't make all the best decisions or whatever but I don't think she deserves ALL of the things said about her. Give her a break ! She's pregnant and doesn't like it !…

I’m told it’s common among rural white people (me), some black people, and southerners. To me it sounds sweet and a little respectful, without the full-on formality of Miss/Ms./Mrs. Lastname.

But you are calling them dumb. The widespread use of first names for adults is a very upper middle class white convention and reflects how there are a lot of people whose power is assumed a priori. Other people come into these conversations from different power positions and different and often more marginalised…

I said I agreed with you on the gender issue but I disagree on your dismissal of honorifics and what they mean, especially cross culturally.

I’m getting tired of hearing “abortion is only a small part of what Planned Parenthood does” and the classifying of which PP clinics provide abortions and which don’t. Even if Planned Parenthood was an industrial abortion factory that offered all abortions 24/7, it is still a legal procedure. It is still an important…

This is so fucked up. I’ve been listening to the Death, Sex, and Money podcast’s series on this and it’s stunning* to me how this country can still turn its back on entire cities of people while they suffer and then try to scrub their existence clean once the citizens attempt to make their homes habitable again.

this is a horrible thing to say. please do more research about depression and suicide, it has nothing to do with how observant you choose to be, but plenty to do with folks judging those extremely personal choices just like this.

I know you’re posting in earnest, and I know that you are a regular commenter (and I am just a lowly mostly-lurker), but I wish you would consider that you come across as kind of judgmental in the way you’ve approached this thread. It’s okay that you are in an upper middle class bubble where most people you know never…

I feel like neither of those thoughts demonstrate either empathy or compassion for a fellow human being and her family who are, it seems, going through some rough shit. I like a contrarian as much as anyone else, but come on.