“‘No, I said ‘niggas,’” which is different in his mind.”

I listen to rap and I have black friends.

“It was a slang term...”

“I am not a racist.”™

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them.” —Maya Angelou

I used to buy into the idea that Howard Stern was “just a character,” and believed all that Private Parts bullshit about what a good family man he was, how much he loved his wife. And then he left her for a younger, hotter model.

No. I realize we are all limited to our lived experience, but your experience here is not analogous with what this doctor did or what people commonly refer to as FGM.

Nowhere did this article even bring up circumcision. Why is it so hard to stay on topic when it’s about an atrocity that’s done to women’s sexual organs? Why is it always, “We must discuss the penis first!”

Yes, but there’s a time and a place to talk about nonconsentual circumcision of the penis. Generally speaking, it’s not when talking about forced clitorectomies, since that’s a specific problem that has proven pernicious and needs to be stamped out.

What the fuck? No. That is like saying if woman A slept with woman B who was trans but before she had transitioned in any way, or even publicly identified that way, then woman A has slept with a woman even though at that time woman B was biologically and publicly identifying as a man. Circumcision done to you as a…

In his defense, he only said he had a full head of hair. He didn’t say he brought it with him.

Also, dating another person isn’t about “having” who you want, it’s about spending time with someone and building a relationship that satisfies you both.

Seriously. Even movie stars get dumped and turned down sometimes. I’m pretty sure some woman somewhere has blown off finance bro.

Only balding men use that term, otherwise there would be no reason to bring it up.

dating in New York as a 30-something executive in private equity

I legit guffawed at the use of the word “full” vis-a-vis his photograph.

His definition of “full head of hair” is pretty loose.

“The Obama administration’s rule emboldened abortion providers like Planned Parenthood women, empowered federal bureaucrats women, and silenced our states us men in the process,” Ernst said in a statement. “Today’s action restores states’ men’s rights over a Washington-knows-best mentality women.”

I only remember that until Trump was elected. Nobody was looking forward to 2017 after November 2016.