But how does it really make sense, when the Asian trappings of the character remained unchanged?

Does challenging them work, though? I know I came away from the election with the persistent and unhappy feeling that a significant number of Americans can't handle anything that resembles the truth about racism and bigotry in this country. You literally have to lie to them, telling them how kind they are, how decent…

I think it's also worth taking a step back and seeing that the mainstream of what's considered acceptable behavior toward women has shifted measurably since 2007. Even looking at movies or TV episodes that were made in that year, it's amazing how many things passed under the radar that would have been identified and…

I think you're conflating an idea of different types of trauma being linguistically equivalent with how they're actually treated — and therefore responded to — in society. Trauma isn't trauma, sexual or otherwise, in the real world.

But if he was so sickened, why didn't he apologize to Maria?

I always think when people do things like this, it's because they're too chickenshit to physically rape someone but love the idea of violating their consent in virtually every other way possible.

Wah wah wah, tolerate my trolling!

The worst thing in the world for a man is to not be able to control his woman.

The right of redress would be for them to vote in a popular national election for a candidate who is actually going to address these things and not just pretend to while throwing our democracy out the window.

Why are we so hell-bent on convincing ourselves that Trump won because of all the people who worked their asses off to get Hillary elected? As opposed to all the lazy assholes who refused to make distinctions between the candidates, refused to donate their time or energy to Clinton, or couldn't even be bothered to…

Please tell me you're not taking the number of white men in this country and dividing it by the total population and calling that "understanding statistics."

Can we give it a rest with the pop psychology explanations of how Trump came into existence because of liberals? We ended up with Trump because the demographic shifts in this country couldn't quite overpower his engineered advantage in the electoral college, and his garbage rhetoric activated a lot of people who…

The classic dictionary definition doesn't mean anything, though, given that it's not value-neutral and was written by human beings, the vast majority of whom were probably white. Using it as "proof" that real racism is interpersonal regardless of institutional power dynamics isn't persuasive.

Exactly. If 8 years of not seeing themselves represented in the skin color of our President is enough to make them pull this crap, I shudder to think what they'd do if they had to live under something like Jim Crow. Probably nuke the entire planet just "to show us."

LOL, the concern troll shows their true colors.

Correct. The prickish ones aren't the ones seeing what's in front of our noses and calling things what they actually are.

I feel sorry that you only know how to operate at the most shallow level of 'gotcha' rhetoric. Don't mock Christianists who think evolution is a hoax or that Jesus rode dinosaurs; you don't like it when the President threatens to ban all Muslims!

Wah, wah, wah, calling someone a racist is worse than being racist. Wah, wah, tolerant left, civility, have some respect for the people who just fucked us over for the next four years. They're just so tired of being looked down upon. It's completely understandable they threw us all over a cliff to teach us a lesson.

The fact that they celebrate the crowning of an authoritarian doesn't mean they don't cling to guns and religion. It's evidence of, even.

It's always sad when the truth is less effective than a lie.