well...we used to call these really scary stairs that led down to a tunnel by my sister's old apartment the "rape stairs" because it was a creepy, rapey kind of place...maybe that's why the storage room had that name? Granted, when it's a bunch of guys calling it that and not giving her an explanation and then firing…

I can tase people and get paid by art connoisseurs? This is stellar news.

He's talking about different things. The rioting was one thing, the non violent protests another. I'm not particularly invested in sharpton one way or another but the criticisms against him are largely just as rooted in racism as the issues that inspire him to speak out. He's trying to squash the perception that he is…

the problem is almost any white person is racist. We are still a segregated country. So abandon all your friends who express racist sentiments, or just the MEGA racists? 80% of the white commenters condemning these racists have all white friends. (Maybe one black one who they met in their senior year African Diaspora…

How many children does that man HAVE? He was obviously lacking a swagger dad to show him how to wear a condom.

Why is this poll even necessary? This country was founded on racism, not freedom. Our own personal Holocaust lasted 250 years and killed far more than 10 million (we conveniently didn't keep records though, much like how today we don't keep records on how many black people are killed by cops). We like to think of…

not for anything but she sounds drunk and/or mentally ill. Still very racist but not sure this is quite as clear cut as that.

You don't witness it because the guys who catcall would never try it in front of another guy. Which is illustrative of the fact that these aren't compliments: they are ego expressions. Even when some guy sitting on the street just stares hard as I walk by trying to make eye contact, what he is saying is "I could take…

HappyyFace, I don't know where you live, but I'm guessing it's not Mississippi. Women walk around in this world the way even a confident, out and proud gay man would in the heart of Mississippi: just a little bit afraid all the time. And this is coming from a woman who grew up in NYC, has traveled extensively alone,…

It's about power. When a strange man comments on woman's looks, she has to immediately start thinking about her safety, even if only very preliminarily/subconsciously. Why is he saying this? Is he ok? Generally, people don't just say their thoughts out loud to other people they don't know. Why did he feel it was…

I think what's happening is that people get curious about what the hell this challenge is all about so they research it, which leads to researching what ALS is, which leads many people to make donations. The ALS Foundation claims donations have soared since the challenge started. I agree though that it's a pretty…

yes I know that rationally, but for those of us with insect phobias and who don't eat insects as part of a regular diet, the first instinct upon discovering you've just eaten several crackers crawling with ants is to immediately assume imminent death, apart from the general feeling of wanting to jump out of your own…

Yeah...on my honeymoon no less. However, I'm here to tell you that you can eat probably dozens of tiny ants and live. I didn't even want to make myself throw up because if I saw ants come up I would have fainted and drowned in the toilet.

that doesn't look like a moth to me? Not an entomologist or anything but that thing looks much scarier than your garden variety moth circling the light fixture.

I have found dead moths in those dried soup bowls that you buy and add water to multiple times, and once ordered produce from whole foods and found dead gnats all over the lettuce..like ten of them. I also accidentally ate a bunch of crackers crawling with ants recently. And I am deathly afraid of insects, which I…

much more impressive when you consider that the course is designed to challenge the average sized man; she's about 9 inches shy of that height.

I think you're talking about something different than she is. Allowing a child to choose her sippy cup is not the issue. The issue is, if you already poured the milk into the cup and THEN the child screams for the other color cup, running to the cabinet, pouring the milk into the cup she wants and washing the first…

I don't know why you assume she meant it as an insult though....she was telling a joke: "you know Michelle is a trannie, haha" - because she is, objectively speaking, a tall, big boned woman who could (kind of sort of, maybe not, but for the joke's sake, ok), pass for a MTF trans person. How is that automatically an…

I don't see how you can consider this offensive unless you a) think it is offensive to Michelle Obama, which implies that being compared to a transgender woman is offensive, or 2) you think calling a woman who isn't transgender is somehow offensive to transgender people. She really didn't say anything negative at all…

This is why I objected so strongly to the anti-pitbull tangent the original story sparked. In almost every story like this, the facts get skewed so that the headlines focus on the "vicious pitbull mauling" rather than the absurd parental neglect involved. Then the dust settles and you find out this little girl was…