She doesn’t owe being sympathetic. The racist, clueless flight attendant deserves every bit of vitriol directed her way. Black women are tired of smiling and “behaving gracefully” through mistreatment by snobby hateful people like this bitter awful flight attendant. She would have gotten much worse than “heifer” from…

Things that have been said to me as a brown woman MD:

My experience with Delta, as a brown lady. Three years ago, flying from a meeting in Detroit to SF, standing in the premier line. Gate agent repeatedly tries to shoo me out of the line a good 10 minutes before boarding was going to start. Mind you he approached none of the other (white, male) passengers in the…

Let’s split the difference and agree that the flight attendant is an idiot without insulting people based on their professions.

I puff out my shoulders and usually start coughing. If I can get the window person to play along (happens occasionally), they’ll start coughing or talking loudly on their cell. Helps also if one of you is really fidgety during boarding and looking like it’s going to be a whole thing all flight long.

If you’re flying Southwest, just temporarily throw on a “Do you have a minute to talk about Jesus?” hat.

Exactly. I’m not a fan but I wouldn’t wish this on anyone. It’s horrible what happened to her. What is wrong with people?

I’m seeing an awful lot of people online this morning on various news sites commenting on the Kim story saying “they should have killed her.” or “too bad she survived, because she’s a whore.”

For me, it’s a social/cultural fascination. It’s quite interesting how firm of a grip the country has maintained on that family, even so long after the monarchy shifted to an entirely non-political role. I mean, we all have our “thing,” right?

Would that be English channeling?

I have a feeling the first thing Jennifer Aniston thought when she heard the news that Brad and Angelina had split up was “oh for fuck’s sake, now everyone’s going to badger me for a comment”.

I’ve heard tell of people leavin’ the greys. Never seen it, myself, but they say that up where it ain’t grey, it’s all light, and there ain’t no more sufferin’. Mebbe some day...

“I loved working for Whole Foods …”

“My parents... have a rule: if your partner wants something more than you don’t want it, you give it to them.”

I think that some decisions are going to ultimately be made by the person who feels most strongly about it. They had already discussed starting a family together, so I get the impression that the issue here wasn’t that he didn’t want to spend the rest of his life with her, just that he was not into the institution of…

If you don’t really care about getting married, then of course you aren’t going to want to do it because the whole process is stressful as hell and costs a ton of money. That doesn’t mean that you are strongly AGAINST marriage. If the other person’s desire to get married overcomes your general apathy (which sounds…

I knew it would happen eventually, too, and I’m surprised it lasted this long. Their smugness about the relationship was grating.

Jennifer Aniston needs to get W magazine on the line for a family-themed photo shoot with Justin and her dogs pronto.

We will all be actually dead if it is Tom Hanks.