But, no public outcry re: endemic violence on women? Lone white males who shoot up public spaces every couple days? White male serial killers? No? Still big scary black men are the problem? Oh, and sassy black women. And slutty women in general. Legal abortion, that’s our problem.

THIS. So much. I wondered if I was the only person who actually read TKAMB to begin with, because it’s right there in the text.

Very soon, municipalities across the country will be required to have two coroners. One for “run of the mill” deaths and one for “person of color died while in custody and the explanation given by the police is total bullshit” medical examiner.

Ricky Gervais had the best response to this non story:

What did happen that everyone is referring to? I don’t visit the net often and am a little lost.

If Tony’s letter ran along the lines of ‘Hey, I’m finding going into middle age hard and I kinda worry about feeling irrelevant or ignored or no longer part of a world I previously understood’, I’d feel a lot more sympathy for him because I am told that the aging process is/can be fucking rough and it’s hard to…

I’d be more sympathetic if he hadn’t restricted his complaints to the attention of younger women. It seems like he’s not immune from ageism as well.

You know, I like Jezebel. But if I were them—considering what happened, oh, just a day ago—I’d probably lay off the ethically-dubious assaults on people’s sexuality for at least a week or two.

You say “lol,” I say the very first image shows him in a beautiful club collar, which would have been unknown in slave-owning America, a fact which one doesn’t even need to be very good at Google to figure out.

The clarification is just more confusing - if that’s not why you’re bringing it up, then why bring it up at all? I mentioned elsewhere that a more obvious reference would be the dapper subculture found in many African cities over the last 30 years, including those of Nigeria, where both his parents have heritage and…

I’d imagine his references are more likely to be the dandies that have been a significant subculture of Lagos and many other wealthier African cities since the mid-70’s. The most famous are the sapeurs of Congo, but as a movement it can be found across black sub-Saharan Africa.

Dude’s owning that shit. It’s ballsy as hell. I love it.

My Child My Choice!

bob dylan be like

When people proclaim music dead, all they’re telling us is that they’ve entered the “Get off mah lawn!” stage of life.

Almost? Yikes.

I think corn rows on us reads as ratchet and thuggish and on white women it reads as “edgy” and High fashion. Beauty standards are different and that bleeds into sexuality and how each is treated.