eh. Here’s the thing. The same sort of shit happened when I was a kid. I was different, quiet, and so on. Other nerdy black women also didn’t get dates, regardless of the popularity of the people at school. We also were not always articulate with such things. But like... you move on and realize that HS is weird…

BTW, this isn’t just a high school issue. Blerds aren’t getting checked for PERIOD. Not in HS, College, anywhere. I’ve personally done ok, but I was also athletic and artistic, I know plenty of blerds who aren’t and are not being checked for. Why anyone care about the dating preferences of people they’re not into I…

I think that’s … more than a little apologist. “Well, he just couldn’t learn how to talk.” Yes, but he has no problem talking over people in quantum theory class. Or political theory class. Or in the boardroom.

^THIS RIGHT HERE. There is someone for everyone. Whatever shape, color, kink, subject, provided you’re not an asshole, you can find that someone. If you’re angry in the meantime because you don’t understand women don’t owe you shit, get a goddam Fleshlight not a firearm.

Eh, I had a black male peer group that was into wrestling and anime, and we all found that stuff to be awesome separately. We just stopped caring about hiding our fandom (seriously, I owned a closet full of polyester DBZ button downs) when we got to high school and were able to find similarly interested people to hang…

I don’t get the whole “well she didn’t like me” whining. If she doesn’t then find someone who does dumbass. Women aren’t things to own, they aren’t property. You’re not entitled to them. If she doesn’t like you, well guess what, half of the population is female. If you’re a nerd, you should know about math and…

Is this a chicken and egg situation? I have met plenty of dudes who say they hang out with and date White people because they, too,“like” stuff that codes White. But they never seem to realize they like that stuff *because* it affords them access to Whiteness. Can you genuinely love the Cranberries? Sure. Can you…

As a white person, I resent the fact that you are entirely accurate in your characterization of Taylor Swift as emblematic of white music celebrity culture. I mean, there’s nothing behind her eyes; she has zero soul in any sense of the word.

Yea and before that Will Smith.

I just can’t let you forget about Prince Rogers Nelson, who, during one spectacular week in 1984, had the Number 1 Album, Number 1 Song, and Number 1 Movie in America—all while Ben Vereen was doing blackface for Ronald Reagan.

But sure, they were trash 1950s style.

... I believe that the place in pop culture in which Donald Glover exists has never been occupied...

No one ever says this about Frederick Douglass, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poiter, Henry Louis Gates, Quincy Jones, or James Brown. At point all of these Black men who championed or were a beacon for civil rights were dating/married to White women. So why don’t they get the same stank eye too?

And that’s what I respect about him. He wants his private life private and because he’s not out where TMZ is and his publicist isn’t calling the tabloids you don’t hear anything about him. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is the same way. They live their lives and appear on our radars when they want to.

I once had a boss who said she hated books. I was thinking, “All books? Every book ever, in every genre?”

Those are the same people who brag about no drinking water.

I am always stupefied when people that don’t read books brag about it as if all “the books” say the exact same thing. An uncurious mind can be intelligent, but an unstretched mind won’t grow.

I don’t know. I thought about Jim Brown after I watched Slaughter a couple of days ago. I also remember the “Jim Brown threw a woman out of a window!” comment whenever either of my parents would see him in a movie or on the news.

I definitely did read the entire article and I think it’s yourself who didn’t read things fully. If you read my comment it was in response to another commentator not the author of the story. I have no problem with the story thought it was well written and fair. So next time pay attention so you’re not so easily…

Jim Brown had more than a non novel idea that racism is bad. He made a stand when it could have cost him everything. Yep he did bad shit and that should be on his ledger when looking at him on the whole but to reduce his social impact as a non novel idea that racism is bad is so inherently stupid offensive and wrong…