Decrying cultural appropriation is not an attempt to limit the creative scope available to artists. It is a reminder that parts of that scope require care and not all artists are equally equipped to employ that care.

It’s working out pretty well for me. My partner is very sexual and needs a lot of attention that my grey-ace/introvert personality finds difficult to provide. Enter my metamour (partner’s partner). Now my partner gets the attention they need to be happy and I don’t exhaust myself trying to provide all said attention.

The existence of well-adjusted adults who experienced corporal punishment as children does not negate the conclusion of research indicating that corporal punishment is linked to bad outcomes. Would you deny that smoking increases risk of cancer because there exist smokers who don’t have cancer?

Why would there be more sex in a gender-neutral dorm than in a gender-specific one? How does more sex “statistically speaking” mean more rape?

The gender-neutral dorms are intended for gender-nonconforming and trans students. There’s no mention of allowing cis male students (or cis female students, for that matter).

Locomotive Jones is a well-known troll. You are wasting a reasonable post on an unreasonable person.

I don’t know that it qualifies as a “wall” exactly but you can actually see through sections of the existing border:

I just learned over the weekend that a large section of the existing “wall” is actually comprised of 6-inch-wide posts about 6 inches apart. It was built this way because you need to allow water through or else you have serious drainage issues.

I didn’t see Passengers either but I read this article so I consider myself an expert.

I watched the first episode of Last Man Standing yesterday as part of an agreement with my boss (it’s a bit of a story but suffice it to say that we have very different taste in TV). It confirmed my belief that I’m not missing anything by not watching sitcoms.

Well, sort of. Glasses are read as more intelligent and less threatening which influences how guilty a defendant seems.

I think it would be better to have both pictures used. Dude’s dangerous whether he looks like a dungeon master or a lacrosse bro.

I think it’s important to have his “harmless” makeover picture associated with his crimes. They did the makeover because we collectively have an idea of what a rapist looks like and what a “nice kid” looks like. Associating the “nice kid” picture with his conviction combats that.

I can see how that would be frustrating.

It’s incorrect to assert that, because your family was able to successfully navigate immigration laws, all others can as well. It’s also limiting to base immigration policy on the experience of one family.

I guess I don’t understand the distinction between “historical inequity” and “current policy decisions”. The statistics cited are examples of current inequality. So current policy decisions are disadvantaging black people and/or the effects of historical policy decisions that disadvantaged black people are still being…

Your post sounds like “it was difficult for my family so it should always be at least that difficult for everyone else”. Are you opposed to any changes to immigration policy that would make immigration easier?

It appears that all of the statistics in the piece control for other factors in their conclusions about race.

Homemade posters like that were a common feature in the dorms when I was in college. They were put up by student organizations and by resident assistants and frequently reflected some topic chosen by the university’s Office of Student Life. I don’t see how the poster being homemade justifies the backlash.

From the picture of the poster, it looks like an attempt to invite white students to reflect on their lives and how the everyday things they take for granted are actually examples of white privilege. While that might certainly make some students uncomfortable, it hardly seems like guilting or othering. Nor does it…