Because it needs to be pointed out: Blackface refers to a specific style of make-up, used in minstrel shows. It’s not whenever somebody uses makeup to pretend to be a different race. It’s crass and racist because it refers to a very dark period in American (your) history - but that has little to do with the rest of…

These kind of columns tend to ignore a huge factor in this area - personal standards.

Right. So when the machines in your building are out of order or otherwise not performing properly.... keep patting yourself on the back.

Happens to both genders, and it’s just as bad when you’re a male having to deal with it.

True fact - women aren’t any better about understanding what any given male enjoys either, at least the first couple of times with somebody.

Yawn. Boomers>GenX (remember us? the Boomers kids?)>Millennials

No, gays have their own agendas and rules regarding sex as well. We have our own hang-ups, guilt, and prudishness. I wouldn’t call it magnificent, just not identical to straights.

Yup - because women don’t interrupt me, or men in general, when they are reading something in public. Women aren’t any better at picking up signs, or at not harassing or otherwise troubling anybody than men are.

Here’s a point you’ve missed - white isn’t a monolithic demographic, either. Hollywood treats whites as interchangable just as they do other ethnic types. We have movies with Dutch actors portraying Scots, while the biggest name in Scottish actors played a Spaniard.

I dunno, I think there are plenty of times/places where being a white male wouldn’t be fun, or even survivable. Pretty much any time before about 1500, actually, when the concept of white as a mythical monolithic demographic didn’t exist. Must have rocked to be a slave in Rome as a Germanic tribesman, or to have your…