My sister asked a boy out, he laughed, said no and then told her that she was ugly. He then proceeded to share the news with all of his mates and then this spread like wildfire throughout her year level. My sister was 15 at the time. She cried for weeks but, then picked herself up and carried on. This is who she is.…

No First Lady of any country had to make that move with the Obamas, or (probably) the Bushes. Sheesh!

Fuck you for normalizing the disrespectful, sleazy and unacceptable treatment of women. For real. Don’t tell me that my daughter will be just fine. Your TOTAL lack of concern over this proves exactly otherwise.

She’s thinking, “Die already, you gross, fat turd,” but in Slovenian.

Just say “It’s lovely to meet you, can’t wait to get a chance to chat over dinner and see some of Paris”.

Trump is a personified HR violation. And of course, he still has a job.

I shouldn’t be, but I am kind of floored by Shaub emphasizing “public service is a public trust” in his resignation letter. Good for Shaub.

They’ll probably just eliminate the department entirely.

No one is more patriotic than the black folks who fight for this country, knowing damn well this country will not fight for them.

I love my obviously Black name dearly, and it pains me to shorten it on my resume so I can get a damn job.

WASPs are the first to bitch about this and the worst offenders. I have worked for nonprofits whose boards included people named (first names) Pennington, Harrington, and Tweed. And then there all the southern white women I’ve known who were named after their dads, like Jonice, Donice, Clydette, Earlene, and so on.

I would never not look at someone’s resume because they had an ethnic name.

And this is why I very rarely float into the comments in Jezebel. I have an ethnic, unusual name. And I love it. Teachers immediately tried to give me a nickname and people usually ask me 2-3 times how to pronounce it. And I still love it. Because it is reminder that in a world where black women are often devalued, my…

It is a longstanding Black naming tradition, though. During Jim Crow, when it was nigh-impossible for Black people to be treated with respect, families would give honorifics as first names as a way to take that back: Baron, Lord, Sir.

So you respond with outrage that I pointed out how wrong what you’re saying is...by doubling down ehile acting like it’s totally cool to spout what you’re spouting.

“If I was a hiring manager I wouldn’t even read their damn resume because their name alone is some high maintenance sounding shit” you’d be a shitty hiring manager

But by normal you mean anglo. Which is inherently problematic.

If you are actually saying you wouldn’t look at a person’s resume because you would make a bunch of unfounded assumptions based on the name they were given by their parents, you need to re-evaluate your priorities and morals. That is exactly the reasoning people use to justify discrimonation against people with…

Giving children, especially boys, honorifics for their first name is not uncommon among Black Americans. I know several Majors, for instance.