The troubling thing about Miley is not what she does or who she does it with, but how much validation she seems to need about it. From lying about not being a virgin at 16 to bragging about her first hook up here and all the messiness with Liam in between.

Why do I feel like she kissed her girl friends during a sleep over and she’s calling that hooking up with two girls?

Every Britney video makes me extremely uncomfortable. 

I see Miley is continuing to act like she is the first person to do...anything.

Yep, and viewing Autistic people as having communication deficits rather than a different communication style is also looking like a bit of a neurotypical misconception as well. Autistics communicating with other Autistics pass on information about as accurately as neurotypicals do amongst themselves.

Whenever I read one of these stories (being on spectrum and also working as an autism consultant, I see a lot of them) I’m struck by one thing: the parent starts off with a dream of what their kid will be like, and when the actual child doesn’t match that vision, the parent devotes their whole life to turning the kid…

That and they were receiving behavioral treatment, which the mother waves away as a possible reason for their improvement. Like, behavioral therapy improving behavior? Nonsense! It must be the bleach!

They are AMAZING. With us we only know my son is literate because sometimes he reads out TV captions. For his teacher he’ll write complete sentences. It’s a very special skill set and I’m always in awe.

The moment I saw the reference to ingesting bleach, I immediately thought of Trump’s words. And I thought right then and there that perhaps it was something offered to his son along the way.

Well, I would say you are better-served in these sorts of conversations by presenting more questions than takes, but we all walk our own path.

To your questions. Here’s where you are struggling (I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt that it is a genuine, if baffling, one): the women weren’t being called out.
I want…

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You are, in two ways: first, don’t be concerned, you have plenty of other ways you can be an ally if that’s your goal than worrying about an internal discussion about colorism. Second, you are still willfully misrepresenting what she stated. She pointed out that all of the women were light-skinned, which supports that…

I’ll turn your question back on you.

Is it colorism to point out colorism? Here’s a hint: is it racism to point out racism?

Well, the long and short of this, is that the default apex of the stratified nature of society for the last howevermany centuries would be Christian cishet white males, and literally any deviation from that is an “other,” so you could be forgiven for not having contemplated the intricacies of otherness, much less…

This isn’t a “controversial treatment.” There’s no reason to hypothesize that ingesting MMS would have any effect on autism, and there’s no evidence that it does have an effect (anecdotes are not data).

What you are missing is that she didn’t criticize his choice of wife. She just pointed out the pattern of all of these wives being light. It’s not a flaw on the women’s part, nor a question of their blackness. What is being pointed out is the pattern of preference on the part of the rappers.
Let me also point out that…

NOPE.

Black people didn’t create the dichotomy, it’s just another cultural symptom of the disease of racism. Light-skinned blacks got better and preferential treatment historically and the threads of that exist today because beauty norms still favor light-skin over dark skin. But it goes beyond beauty into every facet of…

Whewwww. This was a necessary and throroughly researched discussion, and I am glad Kweli will find out that the Hoteps who “support” him are not gonna drop coins on him to spout his vitriol. I am glad that Twitter grew some cojones, but minus 25 points for Slytherin for taking so damn long to ban Kweli, and minus…

This shit is absolutely disgusting. This is child abuse and it is disturbing that the police and CPS were not motivated enough to pursue what is best for Jeremy and Joshua.