...and here come the comments which both completely prove the point of the article and justify its existence!

does someone want to lend me a child so i, an adult male, don’t feel like a total creep going in to see this movie by myself

The Simple Dollar isn’t the be-all and end-all of personal finance. Like founder Trent Hamm, Holly Johnson is not a financial professional. Again, like Hamm, she’s someone whose family was deep in debt, got her family out of debt and now touts the frugal plan that worked for her in her situation.

My God, this looks _terrible_. I mean, sometimes good movies have awful trailers but usually they try to prune through the movie and put some of the best parts in. If this is all they could find then we’re in for a painful 2 hours.

Watch What Happened, Miss Simone?, because a documentary is almost always better than a biopic—and this documentary is sensational.

But Chris Rock is black, which is why he spoke of the black experience in Hollywood. Why are blacks expected to do the heavy lifting while other minority groups benefit from our activism then remain silent when it really counts?

Okay I am losing sleep over those lips because as a ghostly pale person, I will never be able to rock a dark purple like that. On me it looks goth, on her it looks chic as fuck.

Thank you for sharing your story. Mine is very similar. I had an abortion after having 3 children. A 4th would have been too much for us financially and for me mentally. I was sad that it was the right decision, but I never had a doubt that it was the right decision. But it was also my second abortion, although my…

This is brilliant, thank you for writing it. And just to help you contextualize your experience a little, the second-largest group of women needing abortion in the U.S., (though not Canada) is women between 40 and 45 who are mothers. It’s not you, though your copper IUD failure is a spectacular one!

I got pregnant with my son on the tail end (was spotting) of my period. My doctor didn’t believe me. I have a shorter cycle and I think sperm can live in a woman’s body for three days. I had been trying via the calendar for several months with no luck. The spontaneous sex did it. I ended up going into labor 6 days…

A Supreme Court justice, ideally, is not a Democrat or a Republican but rather someone who can impartially evaluate complicated legal issues irrespective of politics.

Obama is black by white people rules (one drop). As it stands, white people’s rules are everyone’s rules in America.

It’s directed by Rick Famuyiwa who also directed Dope, Our Family Wedding, The Wood, and Brown Sugar and written by Susannah Grant who wrote Ever After: A Cinderella Story, 28 Days, Erin Brockovich, In Her Shoes, and The Soloist.

Apparently there are no Black people in Atlanta anymore.

I think the show lost its spark. Climbing the ladder to power is always more interesting than actually sitting at the top of it. I can’t imagine how two snakes battling against each other can make for good television. Sounds boring to me. Frank & Claire as the devil duo is the MAIN reason why season 1 and 2 were so…

OK, show of hands: who stopped watching in Season 3 when it turned all West Wingy like 5 eps in? *hand*

They're still digesting it. Give them a couple more hours, and maybe a nap.

Well, the podcast creators did reach out to her family, but they declined to participate (which is absolutely their right). I think the podcast was respectful of the fact that ultimately, a girl is dead who should not be. I do think that there is a degree of callousness on the part of some of the listeners, but that…

Somehow I don’t think “respect for police officers” is the answer to the whole police officers shooting unarmed citizens problem we have in this country. It’s kind of hard to respect an institution that keeps shooting your family, friends, and neighbors in the back on a regular basis. That’s just me though. I could be…

Quick PSA: If you don’t “get” this video, it’s because Beyonce didn’t make it for you. There’s nothing that says black culture needs to be distilled and broken down for the masses. Some things are just for us.