There is an important difference between art in a gallery or museum and art almost any other setting. In a gallery or museum it’s presented simply as art: an artifact of the person(s) who made it and the time in which it was made but not necessarily a comment on the subject matter itself. In, say, a workplace setting…

There’s also the fact that Takei thinks Roddenberry intended Sulu to be straight based on a book that Roddenberry never read (The Captain’s Daughter was published a few years after Roddenberry’s death) and one conversation where Roddenberry said he didn’t want to push a gay character on the show without mentioning…

You should go through the #StarringJohnCho hashtag. Among other things it’s got movie posters photoshopped so Cho is starring.

If it’s any consolation I was just going back through her twitter to report and although most of them seem to have just deleted the specific tweets, several of the accounts are now suspended and I think one is deleted altogether.

I didn’t say love interest is the only role women play but it is one of relatively few.

I haven’t seen the new Ghostbusters so I can’t talk about that movie specifically. But I would challenge you on how necessary the female love interest actually is for a lot of male-led stories. In many (perhaps most) cases where there is a female love interest, that character serves no purpose other than to be an…

Yeah it’s not a proper German word. It looks like it was more or less made up in the 1980's.

So there’s a “German” word “gluckschmerz” which is kind of what you’re going for. However, it’s not really a word in German (if nothing else, there should be an umlaut on that u): it’s just used in the US.

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You rang?

I don’t doubt that but you talked in your original post about someone being hired just to check a box.

You really can’t see how someone might be offended at being offered a job based on something other than their qualifications? Even if they were excited about the job, you don’t think they would be apprehensive about being just a “diversity hire”? Hell I’m concerned about it in my own job and I have every reason to…

I agree that quotas are counter-productive but you can absolutely have biased hiring practices without obvious discrimination. Right now, being a different race from your employer is seen—however unconsciously—as an inadequacy rather than a strength and so a fully qualified person of color may lose out on a job…

If Colbert really does value diversity in his writing staff, then he needs to admit that there are problems with how he hires people—however “good” the system looks on paper—because it clearly isn’t working. Yes, ideally, you could just pick whoever wrote the best jokes but doing that ignores barriers that knock…

Good for you! Because it’s not always obvious on the internet, I mean that sincerely; having those conversations can be very difficult so kudos to you for doing it.

I shouldn’t have said “just”. I wasn’t trying to diminish his acting talent, but rather celebrate the fact that he seems to be just as lovely a person out of character as in.

I agree that tech companies definitely have a problem with both their hiring practices and their work environments that negatively impact lots of groups and that they should be held accountable for changing those practices.

I’m not trying to excuse Facebook here but we do need to be exposing kids to coding (and STEM stuff generally) as an option at a pretty early age if we want to diversify the field. If you’re at college deciding your major, you’re less likely to choose a field that you think is a “bad fit” for you and what you think of…

Two students were punished for “vaping” at school. One student was expelled while the other was suspended for three days. The expelled student and/or their parents sued the school claiming that the expelled student received unfair treatment due to favoritism. The expelled student and/or their parents are now also…

It’s not really that one wording is “correct” and the other is “incorrect”. There are different ways to think about disabilities and so people have different preferences. For example, someone might prefer “disabled person” because they are disabled by a society that marginalizes and ignores them. Other people may…