Since I was 7 years old and discovered TLC/Left Eye, I have been dying for more female rappers and while over the last year or so I have noticed an uptick in female rap songs, it still is very rare for any of them to break out and get the airplay that these male rappers are getting. I don’t get it. This is literally…

This right here. The documentary 20 Feet from Stardom talks about all the amazing back up singers from the 50s, 60s, and 70s who worked on major hits. All of them, black women, tried to break out on their own but were told that they couldn’t do a solo album or solo promotions because of Aretha Franklin’s success.

Most rom-coms would be 2 minutes long if effective communication and emotional intelligence were involved.

O Spicoli, my Spicoli! our fearful trip is done,

There once was a Sean from the city,

Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees

A big chunk of my job is visitor services and what not. I speak frequently to minimum 1000 people a day, frequently pushing 3000. In 8 hours.

Not exactly related but: I hail from the middle of the USA and recently started working in customer service in NYC, and the difference is staggering. My whole training week I could not get over how rude my coworkers (and boss!) were allowed to be to customers; it was amazing. Back in the Midwest I had to essentially…

child marriages in Yemen (and in some other Muslim groups or societies) are expressly justified on the basis of being Islamic. Other non-Muslim societies justify child marriage on other grounds (including other religions). As a counterpoint, I am not aware of any Muslim society/group where eating pork is justified as…

Are you sure? Yemen has a pretty well documented tradition of child brides being provided for a “bride price” that is justified by its religious scholars as Islamic (citing the story of Muhammed and Aisha). That is, the jurists state that not only is the practice condoned by Islam but it is also almost encouraged by…

I just want to know ... how are their vaginas sooo small and flat!?!

A poet once observed that when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist and a round thing in your face, you get sprung.

It is certainly in poor taste when commenters jump straight to stuff like that without even mentioning the victim. Just as Jez rightly condemns white male entitlement when it leads to crimes, they shouldn’t shy away from condemning the parts of any culture that lead to horrible crimes like this.

True... so I guess religion isn’t the answer to being good or moral either, huh?

hum THAT is your concern, really? Priorities dude. Trust me we don’t need “more prejudice” here in Europe, we have plenty of real fucking evidence that a shit ton of muslims are not adapted to secular society (look what happened in Trèbes en France, shocker Jezebel hasn’t reported on it)

These kids are Americans. They need to be protected against FGM and forced marriages. We shouldn’t let the fact we find ourselves in agreement with disagreeable types hide the fact we need to protect American children from barbaric practices of all religions.

The bride has to give her consent thrice presumably to give her time to make some sign that coercion is taking place.

Religion.

There was a letter on Ask A Manager last year about a dude who was SO terrified of birds, that when one flew past him as he was walking down the sidewalk, he shoved his co-worker trying to get away. Into traffic. She was hit by a car.

Exactly!