His N*Sync ramen noodle hair was based on his pubes.

I feel like this is a good plan, but now I’m thinking there’s something weird going on with JTs nuts.  I mean, there has to be right?  Look at the guy.

Fuck, fine. By way of explanation I purposely put it in quotes in reference to way they’ve referred to themselves...

I find it interesting that people are like “You can’t deny a woman’s lived experience” but that seems to just go out the window if they’re old. If they’re old their lived experience must be wrong/delusional/compromised.

Agreed. The general response of women “of a certain age” to the wave of accusations and revelations has been either flat disbelief, refusal to acknowledge or that younger women are reacting to strongly to “mild flirting.”

I see that Diane Keaton is taking the Lena Dunham approach to things.

Take a fucking seat you traitor to womankind and kids who were molested.

Hi Woody. Didn’t know you had a Kinja account.

Oooh, a polygraph test. Fuck off with your boilerplate Mia nonsense that you had saved to your hard drive.

She summed it up. France, man ...

BINGO!

this goes hand in hand with a conversation i had with a friend about how europeans can be just as racist as americans. i’ll add this to the list along with people throwing bananas at black players at soccer games and whatever that thing was with that italian cosmetics company.

I doubt anyone could succeed in trying to humiliate Adichie. They must feel very threatened by her to to even try.

Many years back I remember hearing a black American author on This American Life (sorry, I have absolutely no recollection who it might have been) talking about how when she first arrived in France she didn’t experience any racism, and it was absolutely liberating after growing up in The United States. But after…

I have an American friend who learned French in an African country. He later got a telemarketing job and was regularly subjected to racist abuse over the phone by French people who assumed he was African. Pretty awful.

Could you have used Google before making this foolish statement? It literally took me all of 1o seconds to find (many) bookstores in Nigeria.

When I was in Paris this past summer, I was vehemently assured that there is no racism in France, that regardless of color all French are treated equally. It was explained to me that this belief was part of the reason why they do not collect race data on the census. When asked if certain ethnic groups were segregated…

Perfect answer! I want to be that quick on my feet one day. If it had been me I would have just gotten red with anger and said something much less classy.

Hardly fucking surprising given the French media repeatedly show that they’re probably the most backward media pretty much anywhere in Europe. Still remember when the tragic death of Alan Kurdi was turned into multiple mocking images by Charlie Hebdo, that “satirical” magazine everyone loved for 5 minutes because it…

Adichie: I think [laughs] it reflects very poorly on French people that you have to ask me that question.