Everybody knows racism is bad - that’s not the problem. Most people don’t wake up and say “oh I’m super racist and a bad person.” No, what they do is try to deflect any and all accusations that they are anything besides a good, equality-minded person...because racism is bad, and their comprehension of themselves does…

You literally didn’t ask any questions.

Nobody said it's wrong to tell those stories. The negative reaction is to the ways in which those stories are prioritized and awarded as if they are the only stories worth telling. Get out of your feelings. 

“Women who wear yoga pants are a regular target of rage from men who describe themselves as ‘incels’—involuntary celibates — online, and Beierle appeared to consider himself a member of that community.”

So, uh...looks like something is not actionable until someone is dead? And now we’re pretty just admitting that, cool cool cool.

When are crimes like this going to be categorized has hate crimes? It says a lot about us as a society that we are so used to violence against women that it’s not considered a hate crime even if it targets women for being women. 

It’s not “super dangerous” and is standard practice in many other countries. It can be dangerous, but probably only as dangerous as aspirin or advil, which is OTC.

Wow. Typical - a man fucks EVERYTHING up for ordinary women by using our reproductive systems against us. I just hate that this service - which was clearly desperately needed - was tanked by an abusive creep.

I get that “fast food workers’ rights” is kind of a joke to a lot of people, but I think it’s very illustrative of the enormous erosion of workers’ rights and the value of labor in general. It’s kind of crazy to see the sometimes vicious responses to the minimum wage discussion.

Former Hill staffer here. I never worked for Amy, but I did counsel a handful of young women who did.

Yes, because in real life, white people face the exact same social and economic discrimination that black people do, and deal with all the same...

“History has nothing to do with this”

17 of you should check your clueless privilege - whilst leaping of a bridge, if i might make a small suggestion.

Nah, man. When you are the minority or are not in power, it’s totes okay to make fun of the people in power. It’s called punching-up.

Oh you’re right I forgot about the long history of white people being unable to represent themselves in pop culture due to a mixture of literal slavery and subsequently vehement racism, so instead everyone made themselves up to be ridiculous caricatures that played into many of the completely racist ideas others had…

remind us again when white folks were denied, oh, i dunno, anything, because of the color of their skin?

He peaked as Andy Dwyer. I haven’t seen him in anything else and don’t plan to. And yeah, his public persona is...blech.

“You just made a wet landing....in my pants”

“You just made a wet landing....right into my heart”

It’s been my experience that women love being propositioned while trapped in a metal tube hurtling at 500 mph 5 miles above the ground.