No, I'm referring to the first verse saying that because hip-hop was founded on POC marginalization, then POC should behave a certain way.

Thanks for kicking it off with a great comment + great links.

He rails against hip-hop for being homophobic and tells POC that they should know better because of their history. It wouldn't take much learnin' to understand the white-black (and to a lesser extent hispanic) tensions in the wake of the marriage equality bills in various states. It wouldn't take much thinking to know…

If you think this is exhausting, imagine being a person of color getting all of homophobia laid at your feet (*cough dan savage prop 8 cough*). And then being told by Macklemore that because of your (your, not Mack's) history of being oppressed, you should feel doublebad about it. Now imagine being a queer person of…

If you took "Macklemore and Ryan Lewis should shut up because they're straight and white" from those articles, then no, you aren't willing to listen. If you think it's possible to discuss Macklemore's racism without bringing in his race, you're delusional.

Not to mention that more states than not have some kind of end-of-life wishes invalidation if the woman is pregant:http://www.centerwomenpolicy.org/programs/healt…

Texas is pretty awful (lived there for years, my husband is a native Texan). But 12 other states have the same law, and up to 31 have provisions that can be set standards for invalidating in some ways a woman's end of life wishes. A lot are just silent on what happens in this case. Some of those states are even in…

Exactly. Like I argued in my post, and all my others, he chose to make this personal information private to turn the article into clickbait. In this case, he was served, and the consequences were that a woman died. And, per his twitter, he seems really OK with that.

I both agree and I don't. I don't think we have proof of his intentions, but in the article, he says transophobic things (the chills part) and misgenders the author. Whatever his motivations were, he acted them out in a way that was callous at best. He should be sorry for turning her death into salacious, transphobic…

I don't think I take your meaning. People are saying that he planned to reveal her status because in the article that he wrote, he revealed her status. Are you saying that this article was published without his consent or knowledge of its contents?

You're right that he was right to check if she attended MIT under another name. But that still doesn't make outing her right. Her outing wasn't needed to make the case that she had committed fraud.

I don't see anyone giving her a free pass for her behavior. I see a lot of people being compassionate to a vulnerable person. There's room to feel compassion for this woman, feel like the doctor was an abusive prick and think that the husband would be well within his rights to leave her if he wanted, because even if…

Neither OB-GYN I saw in Texas had a nurse or chaperone. I don't think that's standard at all.

I've never denied that there are differences. Otherwise my points about non-binary children would make no sense. Do try to keep up, kiddo. I've denied that differences are perfectly binary, that children who don't conform to what you arbitrarily have decided the differences are deserve to be punished or abused, that…

I dispute the follwoing notions:

None of them. But that's not the issue here.

I don't need to; they're cited in the thesis you provided.

No, the differences are heavily disputed. As a biologist, I don't need some lackey on the internet 'educating' me on his understanding of neuroscience from an unpublished Master's thesis that uses google as a source.

I do wish there was more discussion of this. A lot of people with whom I grew up don't trust government info on food and safety. And why should they? Some of them had family members sterilized against their will by the government during their parents' lifetimes. As a scientist, I'm very much the opposite, but I really…

I see this misconception a lot, but Safe Haven laws are gender neutral. If dad is the custodial parent, he can also surrender the child. Or if both parents fuck off, another family member can usually surrender the child, but most states will start a search for the parents at that point.