Yes, I think that took a toll on his health. People will always blame sudden death on the fats (and he was a type II diabetic) but I think his attempts to be skinny did more harm. He always looked awful after them.

I heard injuries were a big problem. I mean, I know people who are pretty intense athletes who deal with regular injuries because of the amount of training they do. I can’t imagine going from zero to 150 and not having the option of icing a hurt knee or ankle or worse, which is what these people go through.

And science backs this up. They did a study with prisoners and had people who had always been thin greatly increase their caloric intake to put on substantial amounts of weight. When these people, who had been thin, most critically they found during adolescence, went back to their previous caloric intake, their…

I don’t care about Beyonce but I definitely appreciate the instrumental abilities of the Dixie Chicks so even if I did, this is cool.

If you aren’t black, you probably don’t understand colorism and probably need to sit this one out. All the way out.

That’s how I see it. Because there are all kinds of passengers that would have issues caused by a 2 hour delay (so for example, my father can barely walk, can’t really use a plane bathroom b/c of limited mobility and vision, and takes medication that means frequent bathroom visits that he cannot complete quickly. He’s…

Because whoever wrote the line didn’t fully understand it either.

Apparently he should have been willing to risk BOTH his current job and future full time job to stroke Kelly’s ego or something. You know how it is.

I find the way that they are framing this as if she’s a victim to be pretty gross. She isn’t. If she had the better opportunity and he didn’t know about it and got an attitude, most of the women cheering her on would be losing their minds. Any time something like this happens, I have to notice how white women support…

I mean, you can’t have really thought that when cops murder black children and people say they should have been raised better. This is just another cause bigots have decided to actually legislate but those of use living with brown skin aren’t surprised.

Great point. And considering how many of my friends have young kids who are already bilingual thanks to bilingual preschool and kindergarten, or the fact that AS a native speaker, I’ve managed fluency in a 2nd language b/c I started pretty young (so experienced first hand how much it stuck for me), it is even more…

I also think people who like to talk up the experience of Asian immigrants are frequently doing so to start putting down the people they see as being freeloaders and sponges (Black people, Brown and Black Latinos). You have to love it when 500 years of chattel slavery, rape, beatings, and mutilation gets reduced to…

Exactly. I think the hive went too far in stalking her b/c I think she can be an asshole and if Beyonce has a problem with it, they can hash it out, but Rachel Roy is a non-black woman who has been immersed in black culture enough to know what that phrase means. Like many non-black women who opt to cross over…

They can sleep with black folks, appropriate our music, work with us professionally, and live here for years but are supposedly totally ignorant of how race works here. And I’m so tired of how easy it is for NBWoC to slide in through a combination of colorism, racism, and misogynoir and then pretend that they don’t…

It’s not an intersectionality fail for black ppl not to take orders from you.

No, even if you had receipts, you are made that black ppl possibly told some people they weren’t going to be their packmules. People who regularly engage in anti-blackness and certainly haven’t been working with us. It’s so typical. You are all “we have to hear both sides” and “cops are just doing their jobs” when…

You should probably let Black Brits talk about racism in Britain b/c this isn’t what they say at all. And the Slave trade was started by the Europeans. Are you aware of how the Brits treated the black people in the Empire? I’m going to go with no based on this whole comment.

I’m not here for M.I.A. or all of the people who have shown up to talk about black ppl being shitty and therefore having no right to criticize her. They can all stew.

well, it was started by black, and I think at least one is queer women, so it was intersectional based upon who started it, not who participates. OR did you think a Black man started it?

Are you forgetting that M.I.A. has in fact been at the Superbowl herself?