I still don't understand how geisha costumes are offensive on ethnic or racial grounds (feminist grounds, maybe, depending on context and presentation). It's not like it's a "Japanese woman" or "Asian woman" costume. I guess if white women taped their eyelids or something... But a geisha is a very specific thing,…

Some of us white women HAVE big butts. I prefer them, and feel sorry for women who have flat asses. Just does not compute to me. Anyway.

Me, too. Some of us WASPs have booty. I'm "curvier" than JLo, who—to me—always just looked like a normal woman who had time to work out a lot. So, great. But, normal. Not especially "curvy."

I hadn't heard about it until yesterday, and I troll Gawker multiple times per day while living on Twitter.

All sports franchises, like all institutions, should be co-operatives.

Come on, they found a matrilineal descendant of Richard III's sister... so why not this?

She doesn't remember the 90s, but I do.

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Is it not possible that you valued the conventional social approval *more* because you were older, and had waited so long? I've seen this with friends. Yes, I'm projecting. But it's so cringe-y when I see it in real life.

Ditto. Well said.

I'm a heterosexual in a long-term, co-habiting, unmarried relationship, and I use it because I am PROUD that I'm not married and want to convey that. Bonus: people don't know whether my partner is male or female. I like that is confuses and confounds conservatives. Because it shouldn't matter.

Preach!

See, all of this strikes me as really sad. Like, desperate for conventional social validation. Cringe-y. But, people are different.

Ditto in the UK.

I use partner because I emphatically do NOT want people to think I am married. I am proud to not be married. Also, as a bonus, I like that it is non-gender-specific.

It sounded pretty public school to me, actually. Public School as in Eton.

We're more jealous that you don't have to shave your legs and bikini and remove your mustache daily to be socially acceptable, believe me.

Actually, he's a first generation American. His parents immigrated from Italy right before he was born. He may even hold Italian dual citizenship. No argument that Italians-in-Italy would still find these two appalling, though. Obviously.

This is a fucking travesty.