"It's an interesting reminder that the red carpet gauntlet is seemingly designed to reduce women to fabric, jewelry, and manicures."

Your answer is exactly the problem I'm having. I asked an honest, sincere question. Your reaction was to insult me, while giving a thoughtful response. However, another person had a completely different answer and encouraged the question and gave an equally thoughtful response. Two different people, two highly…

"Good white people" demonstrate the qualities that all good people demonstrate: kindness, empathy, compassion, thoughtfulness, unconditional love. These are the values I try to instill in my students; that parents try to instill in their children.

Or just let another woman feel however the fuck she wants to about her body without deciding she's right or wrong.

All sincerity, no snark: do you want white allies or not? What are we supposed to do?

I really don't want to sound terrible, but society is mostly run by white people. White people have to engage with these issues, or they won't get fixed. Sort of like how straight people have to engage with LBGT issues, men have to engage with women's issues, etc. It sucks, but the group with the power has to be…

White silence is white consent is white oppression. If this hashtag helps expose that...then I'm freakin' down.

But, I thought white people discussing their own white privilege was really good progress. How many times have white people ignored the fact that white privilege even exists? Why is it a bad thing that white people are finally willing to not only acknowledge white privilege, but discuss it with real world examples?

You are missing the point, I think. It is not to drive home black pain. It is, I think, to illustrate the hypocracy of the existing system.

"Black people were already having the conversation about how differently black people and white people are treated by cops. We didn't need this hashtag."

Yes, but racist and/or clueless white people who WEREN'T having the conversation are now being forced to. The shitty awful truth is that racists WILL NOT HEAR IT when…

My impression was that the hashtag isn't for educating black people about how nice the cops are to white people, but educating fellow white people on their own hypocrisy. It's a lot harder to say that these murdered black men were thugs and criminals who "got what they deserved" when white people admit to the same…

Joe Rogan: Hey, Chris?

it can't work if the only people voting are the ones interested in maintaining the status quo.

They work just fine when people actually show up to vote. When a large majority doesn't, what we have is what you get.

There is - elections.

You'll read my reply and we both know it. You obviously didn't read my first comment, though. I showed you exactly how you could have voted early on an absentee ballot. I even quoted the very reason you gave in your post as one of the qualifications for mailing in an absentee ballot in South Carolina. So you can no…

Nope you asshole. Most of the people who voted republican do work. Senior citizens are a solid voting block to be sure, but the majority of voters in this election are not.

Yeah, keep telling yourself that. only 17% of the vote was 65+. 72% was aged 30-64. Poor 18-29 year olds are the only ones who have jobs in this economy. Right, it was because YOU and only the young have jobs. I have been out of the country on business trips in two elections and still managed to vote. If you…

Sorry but the bag of dicks who is now the Governor of Texas has ruined anything happy for me.

Ugh. This and whiskey are helping me quell the rage that is the bullshit Amendment 1 passing in my bullshit state, Tennessee. The government gets to rule my uterus. Let's get wasted. I'm going to have surprise sex with my boyfriend anyway and NOT have a baby because Obamacare gave me a free Mirena. Yay Obama. …