This one is amazing. 

Is there a gender neutral replacement for “Dear Sir/Madam” when writing to an unknown person? I feel like I need to give it up, but I have always been told not to use “To Whom It May Concern.” Should I just make the switch anyway, in case I am writing to someone who is neither a Sir or a Madam? All ideas welcome.

You were a child, not a teacher. Grown ups are held to a different standard for the reason. 

Dude, no. Shrek came out in 2001. That is not nearly long enough ago for anyway to be able to claim ignorance on brownface.

Way too many people in this comments section willing to excuse this behavior for political reasons. We wouldn’t accept this shit from Taylor Swift or a rando SNL hire, but it’s fine for the PM of Canada? I’m not saying “vote for the other guys,” but come on. This is truly fucked up behavior. And it’s not like it was…

Wow, that was rough.

I mean, the qualms about it not winning the technical Emmy might be valid, but that Paul McCartney Carpool Karaoke episode brought me to tears. It was genuinely good TV. I really enjoyed Homecoming — sometimes I put it on again while I’m doing chores around the house — but I’m not surprised it’s not award-winning.

“The board being only four people, I realize now, made them almost like a mean girls clique.”
Not going to debate the other points you made, but I will say that this here is sexist tripe.

“P.S. I also hate that when you watch a trailer on YouTube there’s a whole ad for the trailer at the beginning of the trailer. I know I’m watching the trailer! I clicked on the trailer for god’s sake!”

Dude, PREACH. I do not need a trailer for the trailer! This is the most annoying thing on the planet.

Yep, generally speaking, AI has a notorious race problem. Mostly because it’s based on racist/exclusionary data sets:

I don’t know,“Here”didn’t give me that vibe at all. Maybe I’m looking at this through a narrow lens, but I feel like most white artists try to seem “blacker” when they are trying to appear edgy or cool (see: JT, Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Arianna...), whereas “Here” (and most of Cara’s super-earnest music) is…

I thought she was black until two seconds ago, but I attributed that solely to her skin tone. I don’t see her playing up the racially ambiguous thing in her music, videos, or performances — are you getting that from another source (I guess I haven’t watched her interviews...) or are you just mad that you guessed her…

She actually corrected that misconception herself in an SNL skit. But she has steadily blurred those lines in the years since.

This is the first time I got that the line “L.A. told me...” was referring to a person and not a place. Based on that alone, I’m tempted to forgive her for every stupid thing she did during the release of her first album. BUT Stupid Girls was on her FOURTH album, so that slut-shaming and holier-than-thou bullshit is al…

A while back, I saw a post in the comments section here saying Halsey is basically today’s Pink. I thought they meant that musically, but now I’m wondering if they also believed that she, like Halsey, was light-skinned? 

I was very impressed with her interview. Watched it with my (Arab) husband, and he quickly went from “Well, why do porn if you don’t want to be known for doing porn?” to completely sympathetic when she mentioned she was in the industry for all of FOUR MONTHS. Her notoriety is completely out of line with what she…

Yep. I actually like Ari’s Boyfriend, but it’s nobody’s song of the summer. Truth Hurts, Old Town Road, and Bad Guy are the only acceptable choices on that list.

...Was he not a hologram?

...I actually like your “Skimpy” better. At least it’s kind of cute.

My husband and I decided to try and switch to a Mediterranean-style diet. Shouldn’t be too hard, since we’re Middle Eastern, but it will be hard to cut back on refined sugars, red meat, nightly binges on spicy chips... Anyway, chopped up a bunch of veggies last night for replacement snacks and today I’ll be attempting…