Seconded. Thanks to Australia’s healthcare system, my meds only cost me $6 -$7AU per script. And I need to take 4 of them daily. 2 keep me sane, 2 keep me alive. Without one I’d be dead in a month, probably sooner. As a disability pensioner, my doctor’s appointments are bulk-billed (free) for me at the local…

As a white woman, I can’t see how any sane person could interpret  ‘shoutout to black women just because’ as racist or divisive. Then again, I still don’t see how anybody sane could interpret ‘black lives matter’ as racist or divisive. Dammit, I’m officially mentally ill, taking my meds and everything, and I have a…

The Real Crime Profile podcast really does not like R Kelly’s reported behavior. They dedicated a recent episode to discussing how this is an example of controlling and abusive behavior, and suggesting ways Kelly could be charged. They also called for a boycott of him.
here’s the link. http://wondery.com/wondery/shows/r…

He did, indeed, come home to face charges and is now in the Melbourne Magistrate Court.

Gilbert Arenas - putting the noir in misogynoir.

Ooh, ooh! With moats around each house, and drawbridges, and catapults for flour/water balloon battles!!!! You could lay siege to each other!!!

That’s an interesting question and one that LGBTIQ-positive single-sex colleges and schools everywhere discuss and debate. My personal answer is that for safety and support reasons, if the single-sex college is providing a safe, supportive environment to transition in, they should be allowed to stay.

That most definitely is rape, ethically. Legally? Not sure. But you were very definitely assaulted. Somebody who ignores your safe words, or pushes boundaries in any way, is somebody to be avoided.

BLM - knows what it’s doing.

The problem with not caring at all about white people being shot is that it plays right into the hands of the ‘separate but equal’ segregationists, and we all know how that works for black people. Not to mention it gives wypipo an excuse to not care about black people being shot. ‘If they don’t care about us, we…

Is it too late to enter this lady into the Wypipo contest? Or will she have to wait a year?

Funny, I was thinking ‘possible Russian/right-wing troll’ myself, but your idea works too.

I was under the impression that Hotep is the black equivalent of Wypipo, rather than ‘nigger’ or any of it’s many related terms. And not offended at all by Wypipo. Useful to finally have a word to describe that particular brand of racist stupidity separate from the plain old ‘white people’.

Yep. I’ll give bramski a 2 out of 5 for trolling. One star for correctly spelling everything, and another for being more literate than most trolls. Thoroughly unoriginal and obvious, though.

Depressingly true, the attempted genocide stuff. American first nations complain about unfair treaties that were broken and ignored. Australian aborigines’ response is ‘You got an actual treaty?! You lucky bastards!’ Essentially, the English wanted a replacement continent after losing North America. Australian…

I’m in another bloody hemisphere and I’m constantly appalled.

Your anger is both reasonable and understandable. After experiencing years of systemic and personal racism you’d have to limit your empathy just to keep functioning.
Unfortunately in this case, it’s also blinding you to the shared humanity and tragedy here - which just feeds the whole elitist strategy of ‘divide and…

Yep, Aussie here. Front page news.

Heh. Reminds me of what I think is the only way to get Trump to care about a human rights/holocaust type museum - temporarily post trumps face over the faces of people in the photos.

Oh. My. Goodness.