I assume I’m missing some nuance here. It seems like Ms. Kent is saying that The Handsmaid’s Tale and its author are complicit with white supremacy because the book fails to acknowledge American race-based chattel slavery while telling a story of white women (presumably) being subjected to gender-based chattel…

Sounds like you won the genetic lottery of having an awesome mother. Sadly she didn’t win that one either. Ain’t no sense in nature. My respects for your loss.

This. Consider we have many shithole towns and shithole neighborhoods in our shithold nation, but if you told a Trump voter that America was a shithole, they’d denounce you as a commie muslim our-troops-hatin’ atheist lickspittle. The truth is the reason MAGA became a rallying cry is because there are so many…

Would be interesting to bring in more women refs...but I’m not sure that the gender dynamic would improve matters. Women refs might (MIGHT!) feel the need to counter player machismo/chauvinism by being even quicker on the trigger to establish their authority. And that could trigger more histrionics from players like…

My favorite of late: “obamas people.” Please not the lack of apostrophe, common sense, and political currency.

As a white boy with a dog, I’m quite comfortable that the transition from sleeping with my dog to sleeping with my dog will never happen. First, GROSS! BLEAGH! THE HORROR! Noooooooooo! Second, there’s the matter of consent. When I get a kiss from her (which I do on rare occasion) it’s only after saying “can I get a…

Right? It’s like homoeroticism meets cannibalism meets racial dog whistling meets nincompoopery. Just as convoluted as the typical trump response to a policy question, but with more icing.

You would know.

I don’t get it...are Obama cakes a thing? Obama cookies? Is he trolling Obama? What the eff does this mean? Not for the first time, the Trump clan’s actions just confuse the bejeezus out of me.

There’s a really great More Perfect podcast called “Mr. Graham and the Reasonable Man” which explains the supreme court that juries use for these cop killings. And you’re right about the split second - the supreme court’s language speaks to the specific moment when an officer decides to pull the trigger and whether or…

FINALLY!!!!!
Justice served. Not justice ensured, but justice served. Deserved more time...but that can’t be fun to be a cop in prison. Rot racist!

Man alert: I can’t speak for getting waxed but I can speak for experiencing fully waxed lady goods as a man. Totally honest - visually it freaked me the eff out, mainly because I associate pubic hair with maturity and bareness with, well, let’s be frank, with my nieces and younger cousins when they were young enough…

There’s always a give and take between tribal loyalty and personal freedom. One of the biggest examples of white privilege is that white people (myself included) are allowed far more leeway to express our personal freedom without fear of accusations of disloyalty. That’s partly why white people are so freaked out by…

Yes. Not to get too academic about it, but patriarchy is as insidious as it is pervasive, to the point where most folk don’t realize how steeped in it they are. Keep grinding.

I think Tig Notaro is quite attractive, speaking as a straight who recognizes that as a lesbian woman she couldn’t care less whether I find her attractive or not. Also, she’s famous and I am decidedly not. Oh and she has lots more money and cooler friends. In fact, there’s literally no reason for Notaro to care what I…

I’d agree that CK is marginally better because he isn’t a rapist (based on the accounts so far which is all we have to go on). I make no excuses for CK’s actions...but masturbating in front of people and raping people are not equivalent on the violation/criminality/reprehensibility scale. Again, not absolving CK of…

It’s tribalism. Us vs. Them. You can’t vote for them because...cue the right wing propaganda machine. But the only way you absolve a member of your own tribe of the crime of sexually assaulting a minor and vote for them, is if the alternative is an existential threat. The Dems fit the bill because...cue the right wing…

I would argue that every professional coach (sans ex-player coaches in the NBA who haven’t coached much) are great coaches...or they wouldn’t have their jobs. put any of them in D-II school or high schoo and they’d blast through the competition. But the competition at elite levels is so high that great becomes…

There’s no room for personal ambition when indentured servitude is the law of the land.

This is basically Trump’s response to those kneeling during the anthem. You’ve found yourself in good company.