The Greeks wrote similar things about literally everyone who wasn’t Greek. ALL non-Greeks were inferior, including lily-white Celts and Thracians. There wasn’t really a racial hierarchy either. The Greeks didn’t think “oh, well, the Celts are barbarians, but at least they’re better than the Nubians because they look…

If you meet actual Egyptians from Egypt, and not just Americans with lots of opinions about what the rest of the world will like, they are all very clear on this issue and very tired of being drawn into what is, essentially, a political argument made by some African-Americans.

They, and north Africans generally, are an…

The day I learned I was not part of everyone...

Am I getting too old for this shit? 

As a Bad Bunny fan, this is all revealing a fairly unlikeable side of him. And coming from an artist who talks about mental health, it’s surprising.

It’s becoming something of an issue in many foreign countries. I get it that every country should have a debate about cultural representation and appropriation, about the things people take as “granted” because they’re old and established, while they are actually anything but granted.

The coins which depict her make her look like a Roman emperor, but that might’ve just been the style at the time. But, if it were meant to be recognizably Cleopatra to the rabble that used the coins, then maybe the correct move is to stop hiring good-looking people of any ethnicity to play her.

I feel like way-too-many people still using the “ItS nOt sHaKeSpEaRe” thing feels weird when it seems like way more people these days are at least passively aware Shakespeare plays are full of dirty jokes and had the proverbial manure-smeared peasants hooting and hollering in the pit as much as it did the aristos…

Journalism 101 first day: there are a bunch of Antioch’s throughout America, as it’s a popular Bible (?) name. I have now learned that there is one in California, but had to google (because I’m not clicking on links) to figure out this one. Even if discussing “Brooklyn” there are two in America (the real one and the…

I distinctly remember Freaknik stopping ambulances from getting to calls.

Online discussion of “nerd” properties is just so toxic now that you can’t even talk about the relative quality of shows/movies without being unwillingly pulled into culture wars. [*Not that one can even have that discussion about this particular movie yet, since no one has seen it — but still].

Loved this. I quit drinking a few weeks before the start of the pandemic which makes it...checks watch...just over 3 years. My drinking wasn’t out of control when comparing it to the narrative we’ve been fed around what qualifies as worth quitting over but it certainly was gray area and as a daughter of an alcoholic…

It’s not complicated: Grogu has nothing to do because Grogu doesn’t belong on the show right now.

Gee, who knew looking like you had a loaded diaper would be a bad look?

The eventual look-back on the streaming wars is going to be wild.

I don’t think you want to go down the path of “whoever the President is gets to decide what is and isn’t Constitutional or legal and can just do whatever they want because they ‘have an army.’”

That’s the whole point of apologies, that the person you are apologizing to gets to decide whether you’ve earned their forgiveness. You can’t just say “I sowwy :(“ and demand the wronged party forgive and forget.

No one cares. 

Dylan Mulvaney treats womanhood as a costume and is probably not an actual transgender. (S)he was groomed by activists as a teen.

I think that perhaps Oprah Winfrey isn’t a great person. I mean, we have her to thank for both Dr. Phil AND Dr. Oz....