O tell me, octopus I begs,
Is those things arms or is they legs?
- Ogden Nash

I thought about the solar panel light bulb stuff.

As i’ve said on twitter.

Whyyyyy do there have to be so many menacing/creepy stranger posts... those are so genuinely terrifying, especially as I believe ghosts exist, but am not particularly frightened by them.

Can everyone please watch The Good Place? If it gets cancelled I’m going to be so sad. Its such a great show, now go catch up on Netflix!

Detroit is awesome. Your take is tired and shitty.

He placed third, but behind Jeffrey (who hand sewed an entire couture dress in two days) and friggin Uli. This was a season with Kayne and Laura and Robert and Allison. And Keith, Angela and Vincent—it even had the best wackadoodle crazy drama machines.

Good - I’m glad. More black ownership (of anything that the white person does not want us to own) has to be a good thing.

This is how I feel about all the helpful white commenters on The Root.

I have White women at my work who have told they don’t trust decades old White friends now. DECADES.

Right there with you. I truly feel for all PoC and will never stop working for equality for us all, but I don’t mind being called Becky and told to go sit down. I wouldn’t trust me any more than I trust men right now.

Yes. This is my takeaway from this whole week as well. No wonder feminism has stalled. “Progressive” men cannot be trusted.

Trust no ally.

Everybody’s so “transgressive” nowadays. /s

Looking like a hearse is actually the only good part about it. It is goth af and a little 30s retro.

If it doesn’t apply to you, keep your mouth shut and keep moving. As a man, I don’t have to worry about rape for the most part, and I damn sure am not going to assume that every time someone talks about men that it is a personal attack against me. How self-absorbed and fragile would I have to be?

Yeah, if anyone thought it was probably just a single incident with one girl, I have a bridge to sell you.

No, nobody notices. You know why? Because much of “white” slang gets accepted into the language readily. So much so that many don’t regard it as slang. It’s awesome, dude.

Funny, I hear my (white) contemporaries using slang in the office all the time, yet nobody thinks less of them. Oh yeah, that’s because they’re using “proper” slang, right?

I think it has to do with power relationships. As I noted in another response on this thread, black people code switch to be taken seriously in a white world. White people code switch for lifestyle reasons (to look cool, edgy, etc.) For white people, it’s a choice; for black people, much less so. This makes it much…