I never said anything about Titus, who is pretty much great. But there are Asian and Hispanic people in this country who are native to this country. It would be nice for their characters to not be shackled to 1950's interpretations of their culture. And a Native American woman played by a white woman? That's just…

It's a shame the show is so insanely racist we couldn't finish it. Some outlets have picked up on this, while others have chosen to strangely ignore it. We've got two hispanic women in the show and they're both maids. There's no joke. No commentary. They're just maids. You've got an Asian guy named "Dong" with broken…

These same people probably love Utada Hikaru even though she was largely raised in the United States. It all really comes down to her being a "round eye" and having slightly tanned skin.

I have seriously NEVER considered the age, sex or race of the author before reading a book. Most of the time, I do not even know it, and quite frankly, I don't care.

Although tangential to your joke: It's Harvard. They're all fucking named Tyler.

What actually is your argument, though? It seems like these women are trying to find other ways to support themselves and their families other than sex work. If you are not a sex worker you, de facto, have found a way to eat, clothe yourself, and have shelter without having sex for money. What makes that possible…

Agreed. The majority of readers are going to pat themselves on the back for NOT buying pajamas with a dumb name and then feel like they did something. Very clever of you!

I think a lot of this is "it depends". My local fair-trade-organic-hippie shop sells various bits of clothing and jewellery made in e.g. Pakistan or Bangladesh. IIRC most of those have a blurb that says they are from workers' co-operatives. Now, the message I get from that is that the women themselves banded together…

This is the best argument so far. You can be 100% annoyed with the way they're peddling their message, but if you say "I'm not gonna buy this because the message is exploitive!" and *then* go shop at Target or Walmart or the like, you've chosen to support an infrastructure that actually hurts women like these. We're…

The point is to either create a market or tap into an existing market in a way that has funds flow to a specific set of identifiable people. Lots of people buy pajama pants. I usually buy mine at Target. Instead of buying my next set of PJ pants at Target I may decide to buy my PJ pants from this company. That way…

So you disagree with job creation for women in these conditions?

That's a bit short-sighted. Garment work is one of the largest sectors for female employment. Culturally, many jobs can be off-limits to women, but sewing is usually permitted for them. Many of them grow up sewing, so the job is one they already know how to do.

I don't get it. So if I can't do all of the above, I shouldn't bother trying?

If no one buys them. No one buys them. The company goes under and we are back to square one. But to try something is better than to try nothing. And, yes, there are woman in the USA who need help. But if someone wants to help someone else in country that they are not a national of, I am not going to look down my nose…

Sarah Miller, you and the punjammies deserve each other. This was not the article to implicitly name-drop Spivak in. And I can't even tell what is guiding your critique? There's so much to be distracted by/focus on here. Is the photo problematic? Maybe. How exactly? Why is the middle woman a "brown woman" and not…

You don't see how giving jobs to women who otherwise would have no other choice outside of sex work is a good thing?

I figure if you're going to buy something you were going to buy anyway - like pajama pants - and you can buy them and support an effort to help women, rather than the sweatshop system - why not? I agree it shouldn't earn you a gold star on your permanent record and it's probably not the ideal solution to a horrible…

Punjabi is a region in India

And strongly related, I think, Rutherford's discovery of a central, positively charged atomic nucleus is another troublesome fact that almost broke physics.

While very unlikely, we are in the hypothetical here so... In no way should humans ever create self-replicating nanobots that replicate off normal materials commonly found in the environment. Especially materials humans need to survive [like to water consuming nanobots].