No, she had it right. “White” is an imagined category. It’s meaning is constantly shifting depending on time and context and it is always contested. Jewish persons, for example, only became “white” in certain social contexts after WWII and they are still not considered “white” by millions of antisemites. The Irish,…

This is the stupidest, most fucking idiot false equivalency in all of history. You are fucking dumb dude. You are comparing one show on a network to ALL THE SHOWS ON ANOTHER NETWORK. Completely ignoring the fact that the network you even mention has several shows that are only hosted by men. You’re as dumb as it…

No one should be doing this to anyone, but sometimes the only way people learn is through a taste of their own medicine.

I think there’s also an important lesson to be learned in realizing that every white person houses a lot of racism, and it often comes out at inopportune moments under stress. We need to be aware of that and actively recognize and fight against it, in ourselves and other people.

I kind of see what you’re saying here, and agree about urban white women stepping up. Black women have been voting, organizing programs, teaching, protesting, founding organizations and fighting for their entire people since slavery. They have been acting on community interest more so than self interest though. I…

This is just opinion, right? Not based on anything factual? I’m not poking, I’m just questioning. Because everything I have seen shows that millennials are voting more and more to the left.

Yeah, actually that particular case wasn’t so simple. Abolition (which in itself had racist components) used to be closely linked with women’s suffrage, until it basically came down to 15th amendment. Suffragists had worked hand in hand with abolitionists like Fredrick Douglass to ensure the 15th amendment addressed…

Yeah, I mean, historically us white folks probably originated and perfected the “art” of stereotyping and lumping people into otherness. Now we’re on the receiving end, which shouldn’t come as a big surprise. It would just be great to see progressive politics move forward with more lifting each other up and less…

I think the story here is that white women, just like black women, generally vote in their self-interest. Whiteness has real advantages in finding a job, going to the right school, living in the best neighborhoods, etc. It’s understandable so many of them would want to vote for a candidate that would maintain that…

As a pretty progressive white dude, white people in general continue to disappoint me. All the strides I thought we were making socially were just kind of facades. There is a sickness in this country, and whether it is malignant or benign, it is firmly entrenched. I do think we’re still making net progress, but it’s…

Exactly right. It’s her perception of him. He relaxed, so I must be doing something right. He’s not giving her much, she can’t understand him, she’s constantly analyzing and thinking. It felt familiar to me too.

I see what you mean about things arguably being overexplained, but I took that to mean that these were conscious considerations on Margot’s part. The whole time it felt like Margot was continually taking the temperature of her feelings, his feelings, whether things were going well—and that’s part of what I related to…

People need to get a fucking grip! I hate children as much as the next guy, but I have flown before. It is completely fucking rational to cry on an airplane.

Who cares? Flights are horrible. People eat stinky food, they take up too much space. On more than one occasion the asinine banter of adults has been more annoying that children. Get over it. Flying sucks. Kids are kids.

OK, but in regard to the actual suit (as I understand it), she asserts she had no access to the computer, spyware-infected or not, once she sold it to the ex. The ex claims she used the spyware to spy on him after the sale and thereby stole his work; she says this is false. This dispute is a legal and factual matter…

Yeah, I don’t get this at all. So what if she spied on him? People do it all the time to their partners (check their phones, open their email, etc.) and while morally questionable to some, it’s hardly abusive. Am I missing something?

Cline does not “admit to having been an abusive partner.” She admits to behavior you view as abuse and she does not. Defining “abuse” as a twenty-year-old putting keystroke-recording software on her own computer, which her thirty-three-year-old partner sometimes used, so that she could establish that he was cheating…

You are DEAD RIGHT. I, a white woman, hate having the blinds drawn. My husband, however, makes up for it by closing them on me every time he turns around. My excuse is that I literally grew up in a forest with no one around, so there was no point. If y’all need to know what color robe I wear, though, you may feel free…

Policies aren’t victims. She may have said ridiculous things about women not drinking, but the majority of her writing is about the fundamental defects in most universities’ processes.

Lady’s got a point. Most of the country’s women have not accused Roy Moore of hitting on them as teenagers. In fact, 100% of unborn women, if we—if we’re talking unborn children women—which is what we really should care about, the unborn women in this country that Democrats are trying to murder—100% of unborn women…