I am of the belief that it’s not so much that black audiences don’t want white artists exploring a black sound: the issue is that white artists can be bad while employing black style and still be successful.

A few weeks ago I went to DC and street parked. About 45 minutes later the barricades and police showed up — they were clearing the street for the presidential motorcade. It was really cool to see it go by — something like 27 vehicles — and they made sure the street was entirely and completely devoid of traffic.…

Far more common than who thought? Because I’m pretty sure most women are not surprised by the news that when rapists get away with one rape, they go commit more. That’s what happens when a society doesn’t take rape as seriously as it should.

What an entitled piece of shit.

Besides the horrendous nature of this story, that was also my takeaway.

An armed white guy.

Funny how when a white guy tries to escape police custody he’s subdued with pepper spray and a taser instead of being shot and killed.

I’ve worked in feminist anti-violence organizations for years, all of which take seriously the reality that men are victims too and face huge barriers to reporting, being believed, etc.

How can the family being accepting of their son getting abused by an adult woman?

I’m with the author - I would have wanted to tell the guy he’d been seen, watch him deny it, then say okay, prove it’s not true, drink it all yourself right now. And yes I realize that’s not the right way to handle it, it’s just what I would have WANTED to do.

“Even when I worked in PC World I would sometimes walk up to people and nip at their shirt. I got in trouble once; someone walked into the PC repair centre and I had part of their dad’s computer in my mouth. But the other staff knew I was like that to everyone. They didn’t find it weird.”

Good that he is gone, but not good that the fact that the department didn’t sustain the complaint against him means he probably retired with full benefits and without any sort of punishment for this bullshit behavior.

I’m sure. Teenagers smell really bad.

Her success has come in as other people have used her relationships and her body as the ‘conversation starter’ and vociferously shamed her due to it. The success part is that she refused to shrivel, curl up, and die when the nastiness set in, and defended herself and all of the women whose sexuality has been topic of…

But things ARE changing- people are buying more and more guns every day.

This shit happens every fucking day and nothing is changing.

To be honest I had to accept that the level of friendship that I had seen on television and movies is just not realistic for me and doesn’t make me happy. Those friends that are ALWAYS at your house or you at theirs, you see multiple times a week and not because you work together but just socially and who are on the…

Why not?

So you do not believe men ever come across as entitled, yet you write a comment that is seventeen paragraphs long about how women are wrong to share their experiences in a forum aimed at women, because you personally have not encountered the same experiences?

Given that you're disregarding anything unless you've personally experienced it, as one man to another (because clearly you'd never take the word of a woman) I'd say no, you are most certainly not "an ally."