The difference is that Kap and Reid are getting paid by white people but being an owner means making money off the backs of black people. It’s not the same situation at all.

Jay previously owned a share of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets, in which he purchased a $1 million stake in 2004, but even that deal was controversial in that many believe it sped up the hyper-gentrification tearing up his beloved, native Brooklyn.

You’re a fucking tool, bro.  

Bathrooms in Cincinnati are typically the site of much worse devastation.

Can’t imagine the media coverage if Serena had done anything even remotely close to this temper tantrum

If I spit in one cardinal direction you happen to align with and the spit falls 15 feet away from you going downward whilst you sit in a chair heightened upward by 10 feet. Have I spit at you? No. I’ve spit in a show of protest against your perceived slight against me. You seem to be asserting he attempted to spit ON…

Only reason the battery is so firmly adhered in the first place is to make replacing it difficult.

Alanis, this is good reporting.

Who the fuck is ungreying all of the people trying to mansplain all of this to justify any of it? I also want to observe that while there are obvious gender politics at play here I can’t help but feel this just speaks to how our society has a huge problem with basic empathy skills: It’s your body, what you do with it…

If I was an NBA free agent, I’d have that clause specifically negotiated into my contract, regardless of which team I signed with.

If she was really in the industry for 3-4 months, I can totally see her earnings being ~$12K.

That’s the key piece of information for me, I thought she’d been a staple for years, given her popularity or at least name recognition.  

I thought, ‘This is my year, this is when I’m going to make friends—and two weeks later 9/11 happens,” she says. “I was immediately the terrorist. That was my nickname.

“despite the fact that Khalifa performed in but a handful of films, despite the fact that she says she was in the industry for “three or four” short months”

I saw it go down on Twitter and it was absolutely about shame. 

lolololol yeah sure that's what it is, I don't know what I was thinking

I had that unfortunate typical first thought about the first line in article. Thank you Tracy for opening my eyes to the inherent misogyny in so much of todays society. Good for Mia to have gotten out and to be able to tell her story.

How could she have done [insert sensationalistic description of a single sex act] for so little money? In this viewpoint, women in porn—and only women in porn—are permanently surrendering something of themselves. From this perspective, any dollar amount is shameful. It’s why the Twitter discourse and the mainstream…

good article but i weep for the amount of shit you’re going to get for it 

It’s game like this that will keep me from ever owning another Apple product. I’ve owned iPods, iPads and iPhones in the past (and still have an iPad and a few iPods) - but never, EVER again.