Eh? We get to the US because we are the few who can manage to afford education and follow through with it. We don't get student or work visas if we aren't at least better than the average. Once we get here and reproduce, the environment the kids grow up in is academic, and the family can afford good education. That…

Ok so, I didn't live through the prior waves of feminism but...did the word really just become a curse word? We keep talking about all this new hatred of the word and tbh, I have to imagine it's not new at all. The only time I can see people not hating the word is when it wasn't being talked about at all.

Started to gain negative connotations? There's no started about it. Anti-feminists have spun the negative connotations since forever.

Yeah, no, none of that has happened anywhere but inside your head.

Because, by his own admission, he shot someone when he could not have reasonably been in fear for his life. He was in a car, with the door closed, and his gun on his right side. Even if Brown came over and punched him, as he claims, that does not justify the escalation to deadly force.

Well we can't have white men being lightly bruised now can we?!?!??!

Mandating technicians, who are guys often lugging heavy things or who won't be seen at all, to wear suits really just makes their jobs more unpleasant. God forbid the hol polloi show up to the greeting of the welfare recipients and be comfortable.

Okay. Any answer to the second question, or do you admit that you're being unreasonable?

The incident has drawn some attention to a writer I had never heard of previously. Perhaps she will get some new readers, so it could turn out positively for her.

So someone apologizes for making a racist remark with an actual apology instead of the typical non-apology bullshit we see, and he makes something of a gesture to help an organization that promotes diversity, and your response is that he can take it and shove it?

I predict this causing his health to decline, death relatively soon, and everyone forgetting the bad to remember the good. The Paterno effect.

I just want to say, I love the fact that Stefanie didn't try to pass judgment on her niece, interviewed her like a real person rather than an object up for judging — I think it's hard to do a piece like this without alarmism or the introduction of snide feelings about a young woman who is happily receiving a lot of…

Thanks for sharing. I had no idea there was a fund out there for people. I'm so very sorry that your money was cut off from it too. Do you have a donation at all? I don't have much money my self, but I 'd like to help.

Come to think of it, how do we know Obama wasn't the catcaller? Wake up America.

I'm so angry this is still a thing people say when stories like this one exist.

You know, I was *going* to say "geez, the dude stabbed him while he and his girlfriend were in a group of people? Like, multiple witnesses and potential defenders/retaliators? That's really intense. Maybe the stabber is a homeless person with a serious untreated mental illness, which would make this a double tragedy,…

If women don't like catcalling why don't they just stand up for themselves?

And this is why more men, men who are pissed off at street harassment, don't stand up and it sucks because it's irrational but it's still there.

David Handler is pretty open about writing as Lemony Snicket - he gives NPR interviews etc talking about how he came to write children's lit. The mysterious identity thing is just a gimmick for the kids.

White people reminding black people that despite all they achievement the first thing they can say about said person is something about their skin color.