Goddammit. You’re probably right and now I’m preemptively unhappy.

The goal is to get the target woman talking so that they can employ their full strategy. Two men—the one employing the opener (A) and another, presumably an accomplice (B)—interrupt the woman ostensibly to get her input on B’s (optionally fictional) girlfriend. If the woman agrees with A’s position then they are now…

I’ve usually heard the geek-nerd thing in reverse: nerds are people who consume prodigious amounts of pop culture but may or may not engage with it in any critical way while geeks are specifically interested in the knowledge accumulation/analysis aspect of something which may or may not be pop culture.

Literally the first thing that comes up if you google “can white people use the n word if they’re quoting a song” is an article entitled “No, white people, it’s not ok to use the n-word, even when it’s in a song you like”.

How do you decide which thing to focus on?

Recognizing someone’s race or state of disability or orientation is not inherently discriminatory. Celebrating when members of those (or other) generally underrepresented groups are represented is not discriminatory.

I feel like a bad person because I didn’t really like this movie. I didn’t dislike it at all, it was just... fine. The story felt very pat, the primary antagonist veered too much into “evil for evil’s sake”, and I wasn’t a big fan of Octavia Spencer’s sassy black sidekick character. But the artistic style was charming…

I don’t think the observation itself is a problem (necessarily). The issue is when someone makes that observation and concludes that black people are to blame.

I’m not sure what restaurants you’ve been to, but generally they give you a menu that would, for example, tell you that the salad has almonds so you have the chance to decide whether you want almonds or not and can inform the waiter of that choice. Restaurants also don’t generally force you to eat the almonds that…

All to often discussions about reparations are shut down by someone crying that, without perfect answers, we cannot even being a discussion. I agree that these questions are hard but the difficulty of answering them should not prevent the attempt. To that end...

Nothing in that article says that the descendants are eligible to receive any type of financial aid from Georgetown.

Here you go:

It’s hard to tell at that size but she’s trying to hammer a screw. It could almost be a political cartoon.

From what I could tell, there’s a pretty OK selection but Bibles do far outweigh other religious texts: you can get 8 different Bibles and Bible-study books, a Book of Mormon, 4 Qurans (usually for about 4 times the price of a Bible), and 5 other religious texts (including a Satanic Bible, although I would be…

Jolly Pirate? They’re a chain of doughnut places that are far far superior to Krispy Kreme, Tim Horton’s, and Dunkin Donuts. Unfortunately they are a local chain.

That the Audi ad was intended as a joke does not negate that it is sexist. The mother in the ad is ensuring that the bride is physically fit and attractive enough for her son. Your video, on the other hand, is an example of the “overprotective dad” trope and is indeed considered sexist. Notice that the father and…

How about the very example that started this: the Audi ad. The ad is based on comparing a woman to a car in a way that is objectifying and therefore sexist. You said you didn’t find it offensive.

Offense is reaction to something. Sexist is a characteristic of something. Though the latter may cause the former, they are distinct things and could therefore exist separately.