Agreed, and I just recommended the invisible backpack to another commentor in this thread.

Even with the raised voices, the conversation was relatively civil, and so I'd call it a worthy discussion. I would agree that so many of these undertakings are futile, but I don't think Stewart really needed Bill-O to acknowledge privilege so much as maybe the 21-year-old white, male, college kid watching. Bill-O,…

Yeah - one of my best hookups was with a guy with a pretty small penis. He was, as you said, generous and enthusiastic, and we both had a good time.

"Burt Reynolds' kiss makes you gay."

You are absolutely right. Slavery, and southern history, are always in relation to white people.

I live in the Deep South and fuck everyone that has a Confederate flag. If you wouldn't hang a swastika flag - another example of a flag that symbolizes a era and group of people who thought it was completely okay to subjugate an entire group of people - then it's not okay to hang a Confederate flag.

I've actually learned so much more about Ebola due to the recent stuff that has made me actually LESS afraid of it than I was before. I mean, it's still incredibly deadly obviously, but not quite so horrifically graphic as some accounts would have you believe. I had no idea that the instances of bleeding were so few…

I think it's like any other form of extremism. All it's doing is proving the point. These idiots have done way more than Sarkeesian ever could to convince people that the video gaming world is fucked up.

Yeah, I am always suuuper wary when I hear about pastors having sex with congregants. Like, on the one hand, pastors/religious people should be permitted to have a sex life just like anyone else (as long as they're not hypocritically preaching against it); on the other hand, it is often a serious misuse of authority,…

The article I read stated that he was not receiving treatment. I'm almost positive it said that he had been prescribed medication but had stopped taking it. Since he had started treatment and then stopped it, there's no way he can claim ignorance of his illness. You're absolutely right, he should be prosecuted. I know…

Not unless you count blatant classism due to an unfathomably naive view of how the world actually works as discrimination, no.

I've previously worked in PR and have witnessed first hand how upset top-level people can be about things that were not necessarily under their direct supervision. And not upset over the fact that something happened, but honestly upset about why it happened, that a citizen/consumer was honestly shafted or had a…

Yep, I've read a lot of the criticism too, and I have to say, since I started lifting weights with a trainer, it makes TOTAL sense. With my trainer I do some of the "cross fit" type moves (dead lifts, front squats, etc) but she REALLY stresses form and watches me like a hawk. She carefully regulates the number of…

You're very right about that. I think the most compassionate coverage that I've seen from this outbreak so far was in the Frontline episode that aired a few weeks ago about it. They interviewed a married couple who were both infected and quarantined together and the level of concern that they had for themselves and…

If anything, we should be seeing more photos of the reality of Ebola in west Africa because it's way too easy for us sitting comfortably on this side of the world to shrug off the crisis as just something that's happening "over there." Yes, it's shameful that people don't give a shit until it lands in their backyard,…

Well, it's also fair to note that African countries, which are rich in resources but poor in government, have suffered under repeated invasion and pillaging from Western Imperialist nations, leaving them crippled in a way that has prevented them from developing as Western nations were able to.

This scene is by no measure the only scene of healthcare in African countries, but it is often the only scene we see.

Great aricle, I've been talking about how Duncan's being turned away totally happened due to the intersection of being poor, black, and foreign. It's not hard imagine if a pert white Christian missionary returning from West Africa had come in that the situation would have looked drastically different.

I don't like changing the name of characters that are already a predefined "character". Link, Ryu from Breath of Fire, Tidus, I can't change the name of because it's weird. They have a life and stuff that's not mine, so why should I change their name to mine?