Okay, but do you treat people differently based on their decision whether or not to shave? Do you see people who make the decision not to shave as inherently less worthy? Do you think it’s appropriate to send people death threats or rape threats if they choose not to conform to your own personal standards? Or (as I…

Okay but thank you for the mental image of HRH hiking up her skirts and doing a schottische around a bonfire, I am in love with it. 

In my hometown ten years ago or so, a (white) seven year old died because his (white) father took him riding on ATVs (which was illegal) and they went to cross a major road (which was illegal) and the kid crossed before it was safe and was struck by multiple vehicles. The father wasn’t charged because, according to…

I had an old cat who used to visit me in dreams, too. She was so special to me as a teenager and we had a very sweet relationship. She was an orange tabby with a funny little tuft of fur on her back that always stood straight up and the most glorious tail. When I was in my early 20's, away at college, a friend of my…

of course! that friendly bird is just carrying the rat to safety!!

Crossing the border illegally is a misdemeanor. This is equivalent to having your child taken away for a traffic violation.

All I can say is thank goodness his mic wasn’t on for that. I don’t need to hear him singing.

Chalamet’s character is well over Italy’s age of consent?

When I was very small my mother would refer to him as “her friend, Paul,” so when asking for the salad dressing at dinner or whatever, “Could you please pass my friend?” To this day she recounts an incident in a grocery store when I pointed to Newman’s Own lemonade or something and cried out, in my loud,…

Considering banana peels make up a considerable portion of my thriving compost pile, I find this to be a terrible idea.

male human: “Oh, you’re seeing New Summer Blockbuster tonight? My husband and I saw it over the weekend and LOVED it!”

that exhibit is doooope

Anne Boleyn doesn’t have living family members who can be re-traumatized by cavalier discussions of her death.

god help us all if Boss Baby wins an Oscar

MFA is $25 for adults now. I try to time my visits with their periodic free admission days. (Like Jan 15, coming right up!)

Can you explain to me how the word came to mean someone with a nomadic or free-spirited lifestyle in a way that doesn’t link it to the Roma?

Any of the multiple meanings you may perceive the word to have originated with and link back to a racial slur. Please give me a context that doesn’t, I’m curious to know. Using the word to refer to someone who isn’t Roma doesn’t change where it come from originally.

The word originated because it was assumed that the Roma were from Egypt. It has a history of being applied to nomads/free spirits because it was originally applied to nomadic Roma. A racial slur doesn’t stop being a racial slur just because people are accustomed to using it in other contexts. I’m astonished at the…

The fact that I am a lesbian has nothing to do with my decision to censor a racial slur, troll. ;)

It doesn’t matter if the US has no history of discrimination against Roma (which is incorrect, by the way; our country doesn’t have the best track record with oppressed minorities). A slur is a slur. I censored it because it is a slur. If a non-black person in a country without a history of racial discrimination…