What a pal! That was so cool and helpful of him! To mansplain to you which experiences of sexual attraction you were actually having. As opposed to the ones you only thought you were having. We can all use helpful friends like those.

Understood, cap'n. *returns to my saintly-not saintly discussion re. white privilege*

YESS! And can I please have ALL their outfits? ...and their drinks?

And one for you for the good awareness-raising work you're doing as an educator.

Yeah, pretty sure I never said or thought that, grewwwww. So I must be off the hook then? *phewf!*

Oooh...a GOLD star!? Weeee!

Agreed, and I just recommended the invisible backpack to another commentor in this thread.

Isn't that "invisible backpack" exercise, (the one edited to remove class privilege) a good starting point?

Totally agree except for the "I need better ways of demonstrating" part. White privilege has been amply and adequately demonstrated.

Naw, you can continue to ride it!

I think one of the biggest things I've struggled to understand is folks who experience certain forms of oppression and yet still oppress other categories of people. Unapologetically. Like racist feminists. Or queer transphobics. Or socially liberal economic conservatives. Etc. etc. (and there's a REALLY big "etc."…

Yeah, sometimes I think Bill's so obvious that he's gotta be parodying every privileged rich white racist boomer dude out there. It clearly pays his rent. But then he says something extra lame, and I'm all "nope, the guy's just stupid".

Truer predictions were never typed, Global Beetle. Let the hunt commence.

For reals. And, as another pro-spandex commentor explained to me yesterday, I probably hate them because I can't pull them off. Truer accusations were never leveled.

Me too re. the first celeb crush! In fact for me, Shane was first and last. She is a gift that gives to many orientations.

Well color me surprised. If we can't convince certain otherwise reasonable Jezebel commenters of such a thing, then I'm not sure how Bill O'Reilly's light bulb will be going on any time soon.

Hey, I'm no puritan. I'd join most cults for a cool million...or hundred thousand...or a free lunch at Red Lobster....but only if desert is included. I'm not a total sell out.

I know, right? I'm never getting married unless Katherine Moennig proposes. Then I'm pretty much a sure thing. Every single one of her make out scenes in the L Word were totally believable.

Sure. Certain cult members (scientology anyone?) do well financially too. Doesn't change the creep factor though.

...and her adulthood in the terrifying cult that is Hollywood.