I can’t even imagine how many cops are going to die as a result of Kendrick Lamar’s performance last night! /s

In following the thought processes here... Flying a Confederate flag isn’t racist. Denying an engaged lesbian couple a cake is defending your faith. A lion (you have no intention of eating for survival) is not a worthy living being, but a clump of cells is.

Hold up, I’ve got something - about 3 people showed up, and late, but there were more BLM supporters anyway. Check this out.

As a person previously ambivalent to Beyoncé, I enjoyed the song and the video immensely. If it’s *not your taste* that’s one thing. If it strikes fear into your white heart... I don’t know what to tell you.

I was (and still am to a large degree) one of those female students. I graduated summa cum laude, won multiple awards for my grades, got the attention of the school president and so on. But, in our monthly major meetings where we discussed sociological issues, I rarely spoke, and my professors were baffled. “Remember…

I grew up (guy) and always automatically assumed that the girls were smarter than me, because...I don’t know, I just always thought women were smarter than big dumb guys.

You've just described my entire career.

I’m in the midst of completeing a doctorate (full funding, federal scholarships, all of the things.) and the same applies. I talk about this with colleagues (profs - even full profs!, postdocs, fellow grad students) and no matter how excellent our scholarship, men of all stripes (regardless of level of education or…

This is so true. I am thinking of pulling aside each of my female students and encouraging them to talk up more but that just puts the onus on them to change boys’ minds rather than, you know, boys not to be shits.

OMG this! My threshold for contributing to class is that I thoroughly understand the material AND have something substantial AND novel to add. With guys, they seem to believe they’re blessing the proceedings with the sound of their inane, uninformed fucking voices.

i’m sure these aren’t the same guys who talk over female colleagues 5 years later.

It’s a lot of ego. And god forbid a woman take an interest in something like family law. I got a verbal pat on the head every time someone discovered that my biggest ambition wasn’t to be partner in a huge corporate law office.

I can only speak to my experience obviously, but this shit doesn’t stop in undergrad. I was really good in law school. Like, really good. I studied my ass off and thrived on the socratic method so I always knocked answers out of the park. During the first semester, more than one female friend told me they overheard…

Why do you think it’s worse in law school? Is male entitlement worse in general there?

After TAing more than a dozen classes, I wish I could say I was even a little bit surprised by this. Moderately prepared male students speak up more than the highest-achieving female students, and then other students assume they must know what they’re talking about or they wouldn’t volunteer so much. Exceptions…

This applies 1000% in law school. I even got what we call “book awards” for having the highest grade in both of our writing classes, and I was still mansplained to every time we had a study group.

The bar is so fucking low for them in their treatment of women and yet they continue to disappoint.

These standards DO apply to adults in the real world. If I made a racist remark to someone at work, I would lose my job. If we want to treat college students like adults, then they to need to understand that even legal actions can have unfavorable consequences.

Confederate flag everything exists. Literally everything. But, hey, let’s all get mad about Beyonce paying tribute at the superbowl to the black panthers. Because no musician has ever worn an outfit covered in confederate flags.

woman with the Confederate flag earrings