Having lived abroad and know people who still live outside the US. From Nigerians in London to Malays in Australia, they don’t paint the best picture when it comes to learning about the darker sides of their history.

They seem extreme because we actually talk about it and our past instead of ignoring it like in so many other countries. At the very least, it is incumbent that someone learn some of the social norms when living abroad. I did it when I lived in Malaysia as a child, and this grown woman couldn’t be bothered to do the…

That is not true, racism, prejudice, and colorism are alive and well around the world. I will never understand how some people think that by ignoring these things in other countries that they don’t exist. I’m Venezuelan, and we have our own issues with race and color, so does the rest of Latin America. This isn’t a US…

Unless you’re a card-carrying Klan member (do they even have cards?), no one is EVER going to self-identify as a racist. But just because you say “you’re not” a racist doesn’t make you immune from racist thinking, behavior, or complicity. Saying “you’re not” a racist isn’t good enough. Amirpour needs to recognize that…

I would say it’s wrong to eat dogs because they are biologically cued to bond to human beings in a way that no other animal is. Their brains respond to human contact the way human infants do. You can take a domesticated wolf, raise it from puppyhood, and its brain doesn’t respond the same way. If you have a species…

Speaking as a labor and delivery nurse, there are probably a lot of thing going on that you don’t know about. Maybe she had been ruptured for an extended period of time. Maybe she’s GBS positive. Maybe she’s not dilated in the slightest and only having contractions every 10 minutes. Most obstetric RN’s are strong…

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the…

Yep, see also the very mixed responses from women whenever “normal” bodies are used in modeling. We think we want authenticity, but we’re very, very used to fantasy.

(Or is there more money in making women of all sizes feel badly about themselves to feed the diet and cosmetics industries? Seriously, I can’t tell anymore.)

Trust me, there is plenty of virtue signaling on the left.

Lord and Taylor is also a really great department store.

But if I can’t police other people’s language or judge every action with an ungenerous interpretation, how am I supposed to signal my virtue and show I’m totes woke?

I’ll victim blame. You can be a victim and it can also be your fault. Should anywhere ever be beaten? No. Did you go to a notoriously evil country that’s politically paranoid that hates America? Yes. Is what happened unexpected? No. Americans have famously been detained in North Korea. Lisa Ling’s sister for one.

As somebody who went to Zimbabwe in college (I studied abroad and was backpacking) and didn’t tell my parents where I was because I knew they’d be upset, I can report: You just don’t think it will happen to you. You’re in a foreign area, and everything keeps being thrilling, and you just continue exploring. The…

I’m not sorry, that I will tell my goddaughter that she was not a good person, due to her personal choices.

The Trail of Tears, the KKK, Salem Witch Trials, McCarthyism... The United States has a history of persecution, paranoia, and making others out to be the blame of what is wrong. I’ve lived here all my life but it’s hard to say that America is welcoming and loving. It’s cruel to those it decides are to blame.

It’s unfortunately good advice almost anywhere. I spend a lot of time in Japan (I live in NYC) and that’s definitely safer than here. But I’ve traveled to Europe, other countries in Asia, and it’s the same shit. Especially a woman, walking out alone if it’s late, you can be a target.

I hurt with you, but you need to understand that it’s becoming less frequent. Though the media pushes these stories for money, the world has never been a safer place.

Gun ownership for everyone is not a safe option. I’m not an anti-gun nut (I’m anti-gun, but I pretty much keep that to myself and I don’t bother to get into it with others) but I think “get a gun” is incredibly dangerous blanket advice. Some of us have histories of depression/self-harm. Some of us panic easy, or…

It has always been this way. It is so bad that I have to use an Anglo name to not be racially abused or asked to go back to where I came from. The only good thing I can say about it is that it really is better than the place I came from, but that really is not an achievement.