I feel like sombreros and tequila aren’t cultural appropriation as much as cultural reduction

+1000

Okay, but I’m not getting the conflation between saying that fiction writers should be able to write characters who are very different from them/their experiences and the defense of cultural appropriation. These are separate issues, in my mind. I think a writer should go ahead and write a fictional character of a…

I go to Bowdoin and I work on the student newspaper, and I’m honestly so fucking tired of journalists like Lionel Shriver completely mis-reporting the facts of the tequila party. There was a decently complex lead-up to the tequila party that led to the students being so roundly punished, which obviously she totally…

I didn’t realize the mark of good journalism was humor.

I have no doubt she knows the salaries. That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s true that there’s “no problem.”

I though we weren’t supposed to be doing that outside of hospitals, schools, and other super germy places anymore? You know, overusing antibacterials and creating super resistant bacteria and global health and what not.

TRYING NOT TO BREED SUPER BUGS THATS WHAT. It’s like immune system boot camp.

antibacterial soap is bad for you since it leads to superbacteria. what’s with your smugness?

Child brides ARE rape victims. Call a spade a spade.

And child brides aren’t rape victims?

Yup. Just let her have this

I say that if pursuing this calling helps her feel better, then we leave her be. She’s not likely to convince anyone of anything, nor harm anyone else.

Yep. Unfortunately sex slavery and rape have been around a lot longer than photography, videos and the internet.

Come on, dude. He said “a smart understanding of what rape is becoming and what we’re now understanding about it.” He’s making exactly the point you say he should be making. Jesus, why does this conversation always devolve into policing people for not phrasing things in exactly the way people like you approve of?

Not only that, but at one point the NFL wanted performers to pay for the privilege of performing! Which, considering how much revenue the NFL generates is fucking ridiculous.

maybe she just doesn’t want to support an org that is ignoring a disease that is slowly killing it’s employees. People are running around falling all over themselves in Mpls to get ready for the Superbowl in 2018. Some people I used to respect selling out to help put the disaster.

And then donated her fee to a domestic violence victims charity.

Good. Superbowl performers don’t get paid. I wouldn’t put on a free show for a shady miserable corporation worth billions either. Wish more people would stop supporting their bullshit.

Plus, it glorifies an over-violent celebration of concussions and permanent brain damage, so why be a part of that shit?