this is an important point, and I’m glad both Gasman and Branigin included it. This is a race issue BECAUSE black folks are disproportionately low-income BECAUSE anti-blackness is real. Singling out HBCUs in this report is a bullshit move by the AJC.

I’m actually completely opposite. I don’t like his stand up at ALL (his work on Community is great however), but I really like Awaken. It is one of my favorite albums of the past couple years.

But did she have hot sauce in her bag?

DAMMIT!

NERD

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What do you have against corn?

Yeah. I’m not a small dude, so I know they see me because the surprise turns very quickly into fear as they make last second adjustments to where they are walking. And I nod and smile pleasantly and say good afternoon as they stumble and I keep moving, cuz I ain’t mad about it no more. Not nearly as mad as when I…

This was beautifully written. Thank you for insisting on these women and girls being heard. Thank you for the Nina Simone video. Thank you for keeping this story front and center.

Congrats to Tougaloo, an excellent school that doesn’t get the all the love of some of the other, big name HBCUs.

NEDD continues to dismiss my replies to him. There must be a non-verbal cue in there, but I just can’t figure it out.

I don’t think that is what makes you incredibly stupid.

N.E.D.D. keeps dismissing my reply to him. I think he is trying to give me non-verbal cues, but since he hasn’t told me to stop replying, I’ll just try another route.

This is stupid.

Yeah, I’m going to assume that most men don’t want to be rapey dude, but that we’ve been acculturated to it and that most women don’t think that an unwanted shoulder touch is a premeditated attack. I am going to stand on men needing to be uncomfortably self-aware and women having the historical right to consider an…

But this is better for everyone involved. Rapey dude is no longer interacting with women and women don’t have to deal with rapey dude. Cool.

No, not dumb. Battered by constant psychological and physical assault.

This is stupid.

You have said that, and I understand that this may seem true to you. It may, in fact, also be true for some of the women with whom you interact. But based on what women have been sharing here and in other new arenas for expression that they simply did not have before, most women want to be able to determine what…

You could ask the woman if she wants to be chased, if she wants to be ‘talked... into it.’ If she says yes, chase and talk. And ask again if the chase is still wanted. If she says no, don’t chase and don’t try to talk her into it.