New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan has updated a post she published this morning regarding Alessandra…
New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan has updated a post she published this morning regarding Alessandra…
Nobody puts Baby on the floor.
Those who were displeased with Alessandra Stanley's piece about Shonda Rhimes will be pleased to note that New York…
Meanwhile characters of other colors can deliver self-important monologues and annoying diatribes — like Sorkin's Will McAvoy on HBO's The Newsroom — and be described as "multi-faceted" or "nuanced."
This has been on my mind for the longest time. Many a time white men have shown anger more than any other emotion. Just go on Tinder. It's extremely easy to piss off a white dude there. But white men have the privilege of being seen as complex human beings who aren't defined by one emotion. Not only that, white men…
My husband has PTSD, and because he developed it because of physical and psychological abuse in his home of origin plus a violent home invasion — not through military service — he already feels like his PTSD is somehow illegitimate. So I find your attitude to be unhelpful at best, and reinforcing the prejudice that…
because people will always have a different opinion of it when the victim is a woman of color versus when it's a white woman. It's relevant because Gabrielle is a Black woman and historically we've been stereotyped as being hypersexual jezebel. When nude photos of Gabrielle or Jill Scott get leaked they never seem to…
"... woman and children, specifically women of color, have been victimized, and the power over their own bodies taken from them."
When Alessandra Stanley writes her autobiography, it should be called "How to Make a Black Woman Angry."
I would like to believe that not being racist isn't extraordinarily difficult. I would like to think that by simply…
Depends on how much she an her husband make from their actual salaries. Let's assume that they're making about $75k each, they have no other income (e.g. investments, etc.), and are filing jointly. Then on their gross income of $1,150,000 they'll pay $402,153 in taxes (~35%), leaving them with $747,847. Then after…
You can do it if you try, Nancy!
I had an experience, girl behind me, reeked of armpits (She must have been travelling for quite some time) Decided to kick her shoes off or lord jesus she kicked her shoes off and the smell was horrific. Luckily a friend heard my cries for help via facebook and told me his friend was working the flight. Two…
Oh man, when you fly for business, you learn so much about the human condition.
"My purse is my life. It has everything and anything that you can need, possible. Comes down to bills, the kids' insurance cards," she said.
Reports failed to mention that, after leaving the birth canal, Ms. Thompson's third child proceeded to stand up and repeatedly punch Newton in the balls for being dumb enough to rob a woman that badass.