Except that most modern fur is farm raised, not wild - it’s cheaper and easier. Those animals have the same shit life as any standard farm animal. It’s sustainable only in the sense that with farming, there’s no risk of making a particular animal extinct through over hunting. And fast fashion, which is what’s being…

Leather usually gets a pass because of the perception that it’s an off shoot of animals being killed for food. At least that’s the case if we’re talking about leather made from cows as opposed to other animals. Like I said, it often comes down to whether an animal is being killed just for the fur or whether the…

It’s worse in the sense that the rest of the animal is tossed. When was the last time you had chinchilla steak or ground fox burger? At least people do eat rabbits, cats, and dogs. Cows, pigs, and chickens in industrial food production frequently suffer horribly but, when they are killed, the bulk of the animal is…

I think it’s possible to take care of your body while not denying yourself the things that you really enjoy. You just have to practice moderation and do something to off set some of the damage. In my opinion, self denial tends to head into disordered eating when it becomes obsessive and competitive.

My BIL was talking about that a while ago. He had some book that said that women wouldn’t menstruate if they ate the proper foods for their blood type. And that African women don’t menstruate. He wasn’t happy when I pointed out that sometimes women stop menstruating when they are under-nourished or have some other…

I think that and a lack of other parental supports definitely impact the decision whether to terminate a pregnancy. Of course all of the forced-birth nutters seem to think that all things will magically be okay and that the sky father will provide. Or that the sky father will not provide and the woman will just have…

Unfortunately it’s not uncommon for a guy to chime in to point out how this wouldn’t happen if women didn’t just reject so many guys out of hand or how this almost never happens despite numerous stories of women being assaulted or killed because they rejected a man’s advances. It happens enough that it’s pretty much…

I’m currently going through a depressive episode thanks to lack of medication - it’s partially my fault for not noticing that I didn’t have refills left and the fact that my doctor takes his sweet time getting back to the pharmacy. My initial reaction to this piece is Hell Yeah! Just leave me alone and let me be…

Some people get mental health. I have friends that have their own issues that will understand if I say that I just can’t handle people or crowds right now. But I also know people who will either lecture me about what I need to do or who will offer to come over and pray. Both of those things are good intentioned but,…

Nominally scientific or at least not just an average person on the street with no connection to anything paranormal whatsoever

My argument has never been about the idea that there is something inherently wrong with white people doing black music or even that black artists can’t be successful compared to white artists. Maybe I needed to make that clearer by saying that no one is trying to take anything away from white people. I see I also…

My husband is livid about this especially after what happened with Ernie Hudson in the original. I get that Leslie Jones is fine with her character being the ‘everyman’ but I get the frustration with all of the scientists being white *again*.

Based on your stats. there shouldn’t be any black artists able to sell out venues at all what with white artists having a larger fanbase.

Honestly, I don’t think that widely available musical styles really can be appropriated at least not in the way that I think of appropriation - taking something from one culture, stripping out it’s meaning, and repackaging it for the consumption of the larger, more dominant culture. Pop music styles are shared and…

No one is taking rap or r& b away from white people. My point is that white people receive a massive amount of praise and attention for performing music that originated with black people whereas black performers traditionally have not. Iggy Azalea is a mediocre rapper at best. Miley Cyrus is a sad twerker. But both…

Tweaking was one of the things that caught on big time with Miley treated as if she’d discovered this great new thing that had been around for quite some time. And a lot of her shtick with the media was white girl being ratched or ghetto. Something that is actually a criticism of black people helped to make her…

I think he’s trying to hard. Like, painfully hard. We get it. You’re a white rapper who knows that his whiteness is part of what makes him different. You want to make sure people know that you’re all about everybody and that you want to educate and reach out to people. Good for you, dude. Not just relax and make some…

My issue isn’t necessarily with the artists themselves, it’s that the media falls all over these people like they’ve somehow just invented this brilliant thing. Miley didn’t invent twerking. She never claimed to invent twerking. But thanks to the fact that some people seem to love the novelty of a white person doing…

The fact that Yo Yo Ma is playing Bach’s Cello Suites is how he gives credit as opposed to Yo Yo Ma playing and getting credit for Yo Yo Ma’s (but clearly influenced by to the point of being Bach’s) Cello Suites. It becomes appropriation when not only is minimal credit given to the originator but, in some cases, those…

First reaction: Leslie Jones looks super badass and hot. If I have ghosts in my neighborhood, I know who I’m gonna call.