Usually a business card or badge but if you’re traveling for a non-work situation, odds are you wouldn’t those immediately available. It is, however, possible to verify credentials online. Once she volunteered, someone on the plane or the ground could have either checked her local board of physicians directory and…

I love these shows because I like watching people start out ridiculously excited and enthusiastic only to find out that it sucks not having a shower, TV, or microwave. And I do enjoy the sort of random bits of history like how women stretched their rations during WWII.

One of my clients was a 70 year old black lesbian stuck in a nursing home because she didn’t have the funds to pay for a nice retirement community. Even though she worked as an accountant for years, she got about $800/month in retirement which covered very little. Her partner had passed away several years ago and,…

It seems really weird to not marry someone because there’s a 4 year age difference. That’s nothing as long as you’re both adults. There’s an eleven year age difference between myself and my husband - I’m 41 and he’s 52. When we got together a lot of people were weirded out by the age difference. They made a lot of…

I hate the idea of ‘important films’ because, for me, they are all about the noble suffering of black people as slaves, as civil rights activists, or as good people trapped in poverty. Not that these are not important stories but that’s not all that we are. And, again, this is just me but the praise always comes with…

Not just perceived to be less powerful but POC, especially black men, are perceived to be more dangerous and violent by police regardless of the race of the officers. It becomes a terrifying combination of confirmation bias and self-fulfilling prophecy. If an officer perceives a black man as more of a threat from the…

Me, too!

Not to you. NWA had a huge effect on hip hop and on hip hop culture and, for good or ill, those effects are still being felt. NWA helped to kick off the period of gangsta rap and Dr. Dre has been hugely influential as a producer.

Built in corset, most likely.

I’m a 50I and when I get laced into my corset my boobs look like they’re levitating, too. It’s a steel-boned, overbust corset and, to me, it felt like I was maneuvering around in some sort of scaffolding. I definitely couldn’t get into it alone and I actually couldn’t get around too much without my husband holding on…

I can in terms of skin tone. As beautiful as she is her dark skin likely would been considered a negative even 15 years ago. The majority of successful black actresses (or actresses of color) tend to be lighter-skinned than she is. She’s breaking beauty standards in terms of being a beautiful, dark-skinned woman in a…

They can. They can show what they deal with all day every day. That’s fine. Dealing with fucked up shit doesn’t make them worthy of the badge worship that some people seem to indulge in and it doesn’t excuse the horrible behavior of other police officers. Police have a hard job. We get it. So do plenty of other…

Yes the ‘ethnic’ look, not the very dark skinned look. All the women you mentioned are brown-skinned at the most with primarily European features and long, often straightened hair. Very dark-skinned women like Lupita Nyong’o, Uzo Aduba, and Viola Davis have until recently been very limited in the roles they played and…

Not just the police. EMTs, social workers, ER docs and nurses. A lot of people deal with this shit everyday and in a much more hands on way. And they don’t even get to carry guns. Ideally no one should be framing this as yet another way to show just how hard police have it out there. This is more about how hard it is…

The Flint crisis isn’t exciting enough. It’s newsworthy, it’s scary, it’s a perfect example of government failure but it’s not meme worthy.

At least they could have made enough changes so that it didn’t obviously look like they copied her work. Or, better yet, reach out to the artist and work out some sort of deal. In this day and age, thinking that an artist won’t find out that they’ve been ripped off is naive at best. Lane Bryant has ads all over social…

It actually sounded like she was trying to be funny. Not that I’m on the look out for these things but I can’t recall seeing ‘oriental’ dressing in ages. It’s usually ‘Asian’ or the actual ingredients. It could be a little weird seeing it on a modern menu. Not offensive necessarily but eyebrow-raising. Your…

They even could have found someone to act out a rape fantasy with them. But that likely wouldn’t have been real enough for them.

Yeah, this doesn’t seem like a spontaneous thing. I wonder how many other women have woken up in similar circumstances but were too afraid or ashamed to come forward.

Abuse is definitely possible but it’s also possible that both people are legitimately into it and this is how they get off.