Maybe I’m a terrible person, but I just can’t muster a lot of sympathy for Manning.

yes, but they are still in the military even when in jail and expected to conform to the rules in the same manner as if they weren’t in jail.

I don’t know...it is always the youth pastor wanting kids to call them by their first name that ends up being really creepy or they end up being a molester.

Do you expect Kylie to know the difference between the two?

he may not have had an all women panel (no time for research) but he has had majority women panels on a number of occasions.

“Any Jane Austen is too much Jane Austen” — Mark Twain

Aren’t you both charming, presumptuous, and incoherent. Unlike you, however, I won’t assume that has anything to do with your race.

It says as much as your blanket statement that all ballet companies are racist. Nothing more to say since you haven’t made a coherent argument yet. I mean, why start now?

And apparently Asians don’t count as minorities according to the article?

In San Francisco diversity is currently at 40% for the principal dancers. This is the oldest ballet company in the U.S.

Parts and people, yes. I think you need more to support your argument about ballet companies though.

On the other hand, in the world of modern dance more generally her body type is on unusual.

NYC must be more racist than other companies in the US that have quite diverse dancers. If you were talking “racist gate-keeping” about Paris or Russia I’d buy into it, but not really in the US. There is a body aestehtic that is dominant much more than ideas on Race.

One of the most famous ballerinas in Russia is Ulyana Lapatkina at 5’9” so there are exceptions to every rule (saw her do Firebird at Mariinsky...amazing).

In Europe that is true, but in the US dancers have much more varied heights. In San Francisco Ballet several prima ballerinas are about 5 feet tall.

Are they actually listed in the ingredients? I have no sympathy for people how read natural on the front and are oblivious to the ingredients list (if that is something they care about). On the other hand, if they don’t list the ingredients I’m sure that runs afoul of some laws.

This is the best thing ever to get through Friday at work!

yeah, so to protect the customers we’re going to out the customers...hackers aren’t good at logic are they?

what police? No police in this story

non-violent drug offenders includes drug dealers. Do you really want them all pardoned?

why should he, specifically? Because you don’t think she committed a crime or because she is trans?