Yeah, or “tell them not to contact you for two weeks”? We were married. We had kids.

Right?? I can understand taking a day off, but an entire week (when most people only have two weeks’ paid vacation a year)? Patently insane.

ugh that 5a. is such a fucking pain in the ass for girls who never cheat. Guys can be such babies about it.

ETA: UGH and women get cheated on too blah blah I get it okay

Take the week off work? Seriously, what world do you live in? Going easy on yourself and creating headspace is one thing, but that’s a helluva luxury to dedicate to the situation.

Lifehacker tries to make things so difficult

I know someone who belongs to a USC sorority in which members must have blonde hair. Some of them dye it, but I’m not sure if it’s solely to get in.

Nah. Peach schnapps is involved, and a ridicule session that ends in tears and Clairol.

“By the sacrament of blood, we call upon our master Nice ‘N Easy!”

You could say the same thing about men v. women. Whoever’s in power (whites, men) is terrified of losing it.

The majority of white people, even the good ones, are utter cowards. They’d much rather have minorities fight this fight. Then, we get pigeonholed as “angry [insert ethnicity]”.

Oh god, as a white personal I am well aware of it.

They straight up don’t care if people think they’re racist because they care more about appearing “proper” to the people with “status.”

Do you think there's a ritualistic purge of brunettes in sororities that happens once a year under a full moon, deep in the woods, with robes and sacrificial knives?

They’re so concerned about ending the autism “epidemic” that they’re creating actual epidemics out of preventable diseases. Fucking incredible.

It is repulsive and stupid, yet the power pipeline isn’t just status and dead institutions. It has real world consequences, for employment, housing, getting your future kids into the right schools. Privilege won’t just maintain itself.

They give a shit because Mom was in a sorority, and that’s how she met Dad. Dad got his sweet corporate job through one of his frat bro’s dads. Every adult in their life is telling them “being a part of this organization is the key to the Successful White People Club.” And they’re 18, so they don’t have a ton of life…

well it IS a sorority.

Because class is still a HUGE thing in the South. Look, you have many, many, many cities and towns that are either all white or 99% white in the South. Still, people are going to discriminate because people always want social ladders. So, how do you discriminate in a place where everyone is of the same ethnic…

Oooo, danke. Time to put on my tinfoil hat.

This 1992 article about The Machine is still fantastic: