What is it about doodying up ALL the women's athletic clothing with color? If you want plain athletic-type anything these days, you've got to buy men's. Even the women's fleece vests, performance jackets, etc. seem to be cut teeny tiny and cinched waist and contrasting colors. The same with athletic sandals. If…

It is entirely possible to look fucking gorgeous while pale in a bikini. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Geena Davis in Thelma and Louise.

I'd rather we worked on getting rid of distinctions like who's "white," than prescribe who can wear bindis. If you're going by historical linguistics, migration patterns, and I would guess DNA, Indian people are what our grandparents' generation would call "white." In fact, I think they were supposedly the original…

Please tell me your next step is not to harangue your soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend about being "defensive" and "screams of hypocrisy."

Eeeee! I wish you'd asked on here before you said that... you could have said you were tired of dating women who didn't have as much in common with you, you couldn't really have as good of conversation with, nothing just really clicked before... you might as well have just gone ahead and called your girlfriend…

Virtuous? In this economy virtuous can be sitting at your desk more and more hours to keep that 9 to 5 because people are depending on you. I used to work out more and I loved it. But my workplace has been ratcheting up the hours and demands and requirements far past the breaking point—for years. Additionally, I'm…

That's not a troll; it's a sarcastic critique.

A lot of people are saying if more writers/producers/directors did more African-American-oriented films maybe Tyler Perry wouldn't be the only game in town. Well, I also say if more writers/producers/directors did more movies with Christian-oriented themes and content (that didn't suck) Tyler Perry also wouldn't be…

Speaking of Ruby Dee, I just recently re-watched "The Stand" miniseries...and her character was so sappy I wanted to strangle Stephen King. I kind of wish Ruby Dee had ad-libbed a little humor and wit.

No, Perry's Madea does not come from the mythological Medea. Nimuexx is right. It comes from "my dear."

That's a good one!!!

One time when I had colored my hair red, I got "I looooove red hair!" from a passing car, but I didn't think that was bad. I didn't feel it was menacing, whereas the vast majority of cat-calling feels menacing.

Yes, I have. On a bus with other people around, so it wasn't a case of feeling in physical danger. My boyfriend just ignored it and wanted me to just ignore it too. I secretly wished he had said "Hey don't say things like that to her."

Ha Ha I bet having to bite your tongue did not help your blood pressure.

I'm white, Methodist, and originally from the Deep South, and I agree.

I just hope they don't kill the driverless cars while they're still out there, coming at me.

+1

The book "The Working Poor" makes the case that people this poor don't vote.

Yes. This book explains it. This book is pretty nonpartisan, or at least announces that it's going to try to be. I think it is. There's a chapter on hungry kids and how the meal at school might be the only meal the child gets. It even mentions principals that try to keep schools open on snow days because they…

How do you get treated? (at school, in California, and elsewhere outside Mississippi?)