Same. Wasn’t directed at you, but the people who would froth at the mouth at the mere idea of compromise.

Tell that to the Bernie stans who would not vote for Hillary.

There are 2 liberal values:

There are only 2 things Jeff Sessions definitively knows:

Yeah, that headline may be one of the funniest things George Lopez has been in.

You’re welcome!

That headline though...damn.

The headline. “Comedic Geniuses and George Lopez.” I’m melting. LOL.

And I understand that “white” people invented race to distinguish themselves as superior to other ethnic groups, but isn’t the world violently opposed to transgender people because it would upset the power that men universally hold over women?

In all of your responses, this is the first time I’ve seen you mention anything about tact. We’re not on the same page about her going about it wrong, because my point is that you cannot go about it at all. You can’t “transition...race,” in the sense that you can’t transition out of your DNA/ancestry.

I have to disagree because, wouldn’t people have to know your parents to perceive you as black if you passed as white? And isn’t this exact argument true of transgender people? that they can’t actually be the gender they’re transitioning to? I guess the point I’m trying to make is, how is this argument any different…

No, plenty of cultures were matriarchal or had more than two genders. I said plenty. You’re pretending every culture has only had two genders and that women are oppressed in every culture. That’s not true. And no gender role is universal.

Plus, that she can put on this behavior and take offense when people side-eye her over it. But if a Black woman “masqueraded” as white and insisted that she was more woke than everyone else to be beyond their constructs, she’d have to worry about her safety. And that right there is white entitlement, which this…

There are many ways in which Dolezal is different from a transgender person, but one way is that transgenderism is a two-way street. Someone ID’d as male at birth can realize themselves as a woman and vice versa. The same is not true across races. Ijeoma Oluo would never “pass” as a white woman. In this way,…

Gender is an expression of how you identify yourself. Race is how the white colonizing patriarchy has categorized people. You don’t get to recategorize yourself, that’s not how it works. The categories were created to form a system of oppression, and while plenty of people have re-claimed them as a proud source of…

COTD. Thank you for writing this, I’ll be linking it in the future when idiots say idiot things.

So, here’s my attempt to answer. It depends on how you define “social construct.” It’s a social construct in the sense that the distinction is more social than biological, however, that distinction does not, and has never, rested with the individual but with society. People in US have a hard time grasping this because…

I’m not saying race doesn’t have a massive impact on everyone’s lives. Maybe rachel’s saying that but I’m not. And if she’s saying transitioning her race is solving any kind of problem, then yeah thats a problem too. But what I don’t understand is, since race is indisputably a social construct, why can’t someone…

Because it’s a social construct you can’t be born the “wrong” race like you can be born the wrong gender. Just because you think you can con people into thinking you’re a stereotype of a race doesn’t make you that race.