He's a muse ing, that's for sure.

Yeah, dude pretty much wants an idealized clone of himself, but with the opposite sexual anatomy. FYI, ladies, judging from your online dating profiles, so do quite a lot of you. It's almost like having wildly unrealistic expectations of one's dating partners can happen regardless of gender.

I would like to objectify a lemon cake right now.

I've had many of these conversations over the past several months. And I've been trying to sharpen my perspective on this problem, the problem of the "how do I help," question. I offer these comments with compassion and great respect for your commitment to children and families:

Just help. Just do what your…

When I started college and even working my first corporate job, I used to envy the white girls for their seemingly nonchalant attitude about life and work. They just seemed so free, uninhibited and fun. I so desperately wanted to feel that carefree. Don't get me wrong, I have felt that way a few times in life.…

lol yes god bless the future of every single person who reads this and immediately ricochets into "BUT WHAT ABOUT ME"

it's not that we're telling you to shut up. It's more that you already have such a powerful voice so if you could use that voice to elevate the voice of minorities would be a much better use of your power.

Then why did you write that comment about what a good white person you are, and not once but twice "refusing to apologize"? Treating all your students equally and teaching them to respect each other is what is expected of you, not something that you need to be rewarded for, or that absolves you from needing to listen…

It's not always about you.

The basic problem, for me, is that no one will share or praise this essay more enthusiastically then those same good white people. Which is a real difficulty with all kinds of radical critiques of privilege these days: no matter how direct they are in challenging every privileged person, they always end up being…

Not talk about it. You can just do the right thing without telling everyone. That's not only for issues of racism, it's also just a general rule. You shouldn't need positive reinforcement for being a decent person. Just be one.

I'd like to give a shout-out to the three, yes three, santaconn-ing girls who I saw quit santacon to come march.

In SF as they were declaring us protestors a "public safety hazard" and threatening us with force some bro was basically dragging his lifeless santacon attending friend past us. That dude needed a hospital for sure, the protestors called the cops attention to them, and the cops basically shrugged and continued forcing…

#notallsantas

Take a moment for the following thought experiment: thousands people of color descend on Manhattan dressed in costume with the express purpose of moving in large mobs and getting drunk. How would the event be reported in the press? Would more than 2 police show up on a given block to manage the raucous and disruptive…