Thank you! I am an Indian girl, and while I don't worry about getting representation in the media (while I acknowledge that Indian women get almost none) I can fully identify with what you're saying about competing minorities. Once they start adding races, it could go on forever. There is so much diversity in this…

I don't even believe it's always about the entitlement that some people are responding to you about. We accept that women can be confused about ambiguous sexual situations (to the extent that she can label an experience a rape years after the fact), but we don't extend that assumption to men. What if they're confused…

I'm not backpedaling. I absolutely think that a significant portion of the OP's issue with the Beyonce coverage is rooted in anti-blackness and annoyance at the hyper-visibility of successful black woman.

Except...I disagree. I'm a fashion designer and also a human old enough to remember the nineties, so I know that kanye didn't invent leather jogging pants. Going to fendi ( an Italian house renowned for fur) and expecting them to build an entire collection around one isolated notion is delusion and shows him up as a…

I had almost the complete opposite upbringing. Black guy here (with one of the most unexpected names you could imagine. Many a teacher was surprised when I raised my hand on the first day of class). Parents sent me to a private elementary school, then a charter school, and finally a public high school down here in…

Yeah, it's a long running thing in architecture. Many buildings have omitted labelling the 13th floor of a building due to the bad luck superstitious attached to the number. No different than in many East Asian countries that have omitted the number 4 (and it's derivatives) from buildings, as it's associated with bad…

Seconded. I hated everyone in that game.