This is excerpted from an NPR (I know) piece called "Modern Blackface: Offensive or Just Irreverent? http://www.npr.org/templates/stor…"

Nope.

as long as you recognize ASU/Boone area is a wonderful little progressive hamlet in the middle of the most beautiful area east of the Mississippi, we can be friends.

It just makes me feel fantastic when I see who has been labelled "fat" in the media, or who has been called "fat" as an insult and it makes the news. Not only do I get to feel extra horrible about my own body, but I get to feel even worse about myself because I've internalized this bullshit.

First of all, I'm not the only woman who wasn't offended. And even if I was, you and literally a handful of other commenters on a Jezebel thread are not the powers that be. I'm quite familiar with mansplaining, thanks, and this guy didn't do that in the slightest. However, I'm actually finding your response to me…

Okay, just got back from picking my boyo up and out of the blue he says, "My health teacher says you are raising me with good values!" When I asked why he thought this, THIS VERY SUBJECT CAME UP IN CLASS TODAY! So the health teacher asked them if it would be okay to go "make out" with a girl who was very drunk and my…

It didn't offend me, and I'm a member of this marginalized group. He speculated and said he had a theory, and his theory was spot on. You took offense to this, but he didn't incite it.

There is nothing wrong with hypothesizing what is going through someone else's mind, whether they be black, woman, bi, etc. In fact, that's a GOOD thing! Wonder about it, yes! Stay curious about the effects of that interaction you saw. What must that have been like for that person? Then go suss it out with reliable…

Re-examine that minority you're talking about. How many of them grew up in the church? I'm guessing since you're divorced you're a bit older than me (I'm 29) so it's likely these women were either raised in an era where women couldn't get ahead in the workplace/were shunned for working, or were raised by mothers who…

"She wouldn't fit in here" was the code phrase for "girl X doesn't fit in with the look we want in our sorority" and was typically reserved for girls they thought were overweight or bleached their hair too much, too much makeup, etc.

I wish it were easier to get full-fat Greek yogurt. Chobani and it's competitors only do 2% or 0% fat. Pffft.

agreed. i truly think that the exhaustion she's talking about is the result of patriarchal bullshit that results in ass-hat dudes throwing a fit over women demanding equality. the "oh, well you asked for equality and independence so that means i don't have to stick around and help raise our kids then, right?" tantrum…

I also don't think that "having their husbands or the fathers of their children" be out of work (or, for many low-income single mothers—simply unable or unwilling to pay child support), is somehow indicative of the fact that patriarchy is dead. Many of these women are tired and wish they had help because women are…

If we all start chanting, "Boot straps!" and intersperse it with various remarks about reproduction and a woman's responsibility for rape, do you think we'll all get book deals?

I'm starting to think the only thing between me and international fame is my pesky common sense.

So, apparently, in some misty, Camelot-like reality long forgotten, poor women and women of color regularly had a "man around who would pay the bills and take care of them and make a life for them in which they could work less"?

I'm sure many feminists and social justice advocate will be happy to know their work is for naught because they say sir or ma'am. It seems to me that the gender dichotomy would be much clearer if there were only a word for women and not men, or if they had any relation to a woman's marital status. I understand these…

A few things.

1) It's completely possible for a single person to be molested and to not be permanently scarred by it. But an anecdote is not data, and furthermore, it's fucking NONCONSENSUAL. You may not have been scarred, but you still didn't consent.

2) Dawkins seriously used the "you can't judge actions from…

I don't know if it's "being shy about sex" or her being "unintelligent" so much as her disliking bad, unrealistic writing. No twentysomething I know seriously uses the word "sperm" when discussing their sex life.

If you wonder why people are having angry reactions to your comments, I'll point you here, to "weird" and "dumb." Oh, and "hilarious," in your first comment. And "silly" elsewhere.

I am a native Texan, a black woman, and 42 years old. To this day, I say yes ma'am and no sir. I had no choice growing up, and this method of showing respect is ingrained in me and doesn't bother me one bit. My late grandmother once told me that when a people are disrespected and demeaned by even children calling…