Ha, you probably took too big of a dose. Even 1/4 of a Viagra pill can be too much for me.

With wine there can be a class element. But people complain about “foodies” in the same way for being “snobs,” even though price doesn’t really have anything to do with it. Banh mi are way cheaper than Subway sandwiches, but you’re called a snob if you geek out about it.

To quote the article, bolding mine:

Well, I’m Asian and there are plenty of blacks who don’t want POC solidarity with me in my neighborhood.

but my OCD does not allow me to be okay with the fact that every baseball stadium has different field dimensions.

Ha.

The discussion of and the protests concerning her original essay—which continue here in the comment section, even though it was published months ago—are one thing.

Thanks, had never heard of her before.

Well, this, from the article above, isn’t true:

Yeah. I know you’re not supposed to say it—naive!—but not everyone masturbates.

Like they said, it’s not about “hiding.” You admit, we withhold information—”every detail of your sexual history”—all the time. Nothing wrong with that. We are not in a confessional, after all.

Hmm. Opposite with me. I started counting in my late 20s, cause the number was way too damn low...

I once was teaching a class about Latin America, and I used the term they use, “indigenous,” to refer to Indians. One day I also mentioned Indians in the US and Canada, and used two different terms, “Native Americans” and “Aboriginal Peoples.” This confused the students, and they would sometimes refer to Latin…

1. a specialist word, esp in linguistics and anthropology, for American Indian

In some cultures, it’s a lot easier. I don’t remember about cousins, but for Filipinos, any cousin (on same generation level as me) who has kids, then those kids are my nephews/nieces and I am their uncle. So, I was an uncle long before my own brothers and sisters had kids. I’m also an uncle to people way older than…

Ha. Pinches gachupines.

That book you mention is kinda old. As I understand it (I’m not a historian and this isn’t my specialty at all), there is a new wave of slave studies that suggest that American slavery was a new type of slavery. Robin Blackburn suggests that. Also, Baptist (2014) argues that there was a huge change in US slavery after…

You liked it? I thought it was bad. It sets it up as if Grundy is saying that blacks can’t be racist, when she never said that. She quotes a British professor, who has nothing to do with Grundy, expressing that view, as if in defense of Grundy. So all the comments there are arguing about whether blacks can be racist…

But transport, in the form of forced migration, continued even after the international slave trade was banned in the US. About one million slaves were torn from their families and moved to new slave states between 1790-1860s.

It’s discussed in the introductory chapters of Robin Blackburn’s “The Making of New World Slavery.” Also, Edward Baptist’s recent “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism” concentrates on the huge change in slavery in the US after independence. This is all, apparently, part of a new…