Ironically the move to take the Confederate flag from the top of the statehouse and put it in the (now more visible) place on the front lawn came about after the NAACP headed up a travel and business boycott of South Carolina in 1999 / 2000. But who can even remember 2000? That was like 150 years ago.
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Folks have got to recognize that if the conversation opens with treating the representation of the Black Widow in the film like it is one of the ten greatest crimes of the 21st Century, then the conversation is going nowhere that will help anyone. For the same reason, if the conversation opens with “Shut up and like…
Keep fighting the good fight. Keep protesting. Keep using your anger and passion for this cause productively to achieve tangible gains. I am a queer POC, and there are many of us that disagree with the extremist rhetoric that denigrates white people who try to help the cause. No matter how considerate or careful you…
My point is, how do I even go about doing that if I can't say anything for fear of drowning out those voices? I'm not trying to disagree with this whole premise, but it's frustrating to be told you're doing something wrong and then have absolutely no solutions presented. "Just do better" is not a solution, but it's…
THANK YOU. I'm white, but gay, so I feel like I have this unique veiw into being a minority and also not being a minority. When my straight friends post things on social media about going off on a homophobe or something like that, I think great. Awesome. It makes me feel good that people out there support me even…
Sometimes I think good white people expect to be rewarded for their decency. We are not like those other white people. See how enlightened and aware we are? See how we are good?
Your assumption here is a problem. You assume that the commenter is looking for a prize. They aren't. They are saying they don't need to apologize for sympathy and empathy which is offered without reward to all walks of life. That the automatic assumption (on your part, it would seem) that they are saying these…
I thought it was a wonderful piece, but I sincerely doubt that most good white people—or at least the good white people who run in my circles—believe that they "deserve a fucking prize." I think they're expressing empathy.
Is a member of another oppressed minority (First Nations), I disagree quite strongly with this.
I guess the question is "How can white people be supportive of the issue without seeming to demean or take over the issue? " If white people don't talk talk about what they do in the situation, then the narrative is that white people are ignoring the issue (which so many do). If white people talk about the issue,…
But your mother didn't make her statements public, did she? And you still found out about them. So what is avoiding publicly saying this doing, other than ensuring that other people who may have these feelings continue to feel alone?
How else do you break the taboo though? If not for women brave enough to say this publicly, and to have that discussion publicly, how else do you remove the stigma attached to expressing these feelings even in private? As it stands, the vast majority of women who feel this way probably can't even admit it to…
Of course parents should never tell their kids those things. What your mother did to you is emotional abuse. And maybe if she'd had a circle of friends she could vent these feelings to without being called a monster, she would have been different towards you. But as for the women who publish these accounts, I think…
The problem is deeper than that. People feel obligated to have children due to social pressure, and they hear a lot of "You'll feel different once it's your own" sort of bullshit. So really we need to change this dialogue.
I just realized that my husband is handsome in the exact same weird way that Benedict Cumberbatch is handsome aaaaaand my pants fell off. G2G.
Charm and charisma go a long way. I love him, he's extremely sexy.
He and Tilda Swinton should be cast as siblings.
One of my friends posted a Facebook status today that I think made a great case for why more people should advocate for body positivity. Basically, over the past few years, she improved her diet, because it made her feel healthier and started using exercise as her main method of stress relief. She ended up losing…
The concept of "obese well" ignores the risks associated with developing health issues.