poor kanye. you’re “crazy” instead of eccentric,”angry” instead of passionate and “arrogant” instead of confident. i’m 100% sure that no racism’s involved. can there ever be opposite stories to ones like these?

This is a good point. We should release the gorillas and put my actual cousins in a cage. Where they should be.

Many years ago I lost my first baby to SIDS. This was a couple weeks after her first round of vaccinations. A person pointed this connection out to me shortly after the funeral. I hit that person in the face.

This weekend an unvaccinated six year old boy was the first person to die of diptheria in 28 years in Spain. His parents rejected getting him vaccinated and now he’s dead. A vaccinated child is much better then a dead one.

This is the Asian mom method. I had no idea it was an actual thing! I always thought it was just one of those mom things.

I think that you probably just did more to reinforce why people think 'snobby' wine people are insufferable, than you did to refute it.

As much as it is nice to see acceptance of a trans individual in culture, it should be understood, as Laverne Cox so lovingly and wonderfully explained, that this acceptance is through the lens of a particular type of privilege. For many trans individuals, their reality does not reflect Caitlyn Jenner’s (and this…

“But what I think they meant is that in certain lighting, at certain angles I am able to embody certain cisnormative beauty standards.”

Weirdly... My pits are MORE comfy since I stopped shaving. (I had a baby, and then I was all IDGAF and my husband didn’t ever be like OMG I WONT SEX YOU WITH A PIT STACHE) so I just kind of kept it going.

Thank you for this—this is a great piece. There’s so much hand-wringing about trigger warnings and censorship and people yelling about how “being offended doesn’t make you right,” and I think it’s all kind of a red herring. Of course students should be challenged, of course professors shouldn’t be constrained—nobody’s…

So women are valued for being hot but they can’t care that they are valued for being hot. Fantastic. I’m thrilled to raise a daughter in this culture.

That male gaze double standard makes me want to chew my own fingers off in frustration. Of course she cares about how she looks. I love Taylor Swift but you’d have to be an idiot to not see how carefully she chooses what she wears or how she looks even if she’s just skipping out to the Duane Reade. Saying she’s hot…

Can we talk about what sounded like the Jenner girls being booed while they did the intro? I saw a few mentions of it on Twitter but it came and went. I’m still thinking about it. Specifically, how gross it was that two teenaged girls were booed like that. I tend to cut them a lot of slack because 1. they’re kids and…

dude Ed Harris & pretty much every celebrity has one or is going to get one. Kanye started an organization in Chitown to help young artists called Donda’s House & made good contributions to hip-hop. No harm in giving him that thing. Besides, this has been happening since forever. Deal with it.

And you can tell this woman’s first language is not English from her Facebook post, so fuck people who are trying to subtly justify this treatment even harder. Watching store clerks snap at my family members who can’t understand rapid fire English leaves me with zero interest in seeing this from the fake manager’s…

I’ve worked with more than one woman like this, in the past. I’m thin, but don’t diet. Other women have tried to do these same things to me (I said “try”, bc once I’m aggravated with someone, I’ll tell them anything). One coworker only left me alone after meeting my parents & seeing that these two older people are…

You know, music used to be a “thing”. You’d buy an expensive stereo and collect albums. Share them with your friends, get together to listen to music. In the past 30 years it’s been turned into background noise. The superstars are all gone and the business is a pale shadow of it’s old self. All because music became…

Maybe ask white people why we can’t all be people.

As a white man, I vote no, because any recognition that people who don’t look like me get means that I am diminished somehow. I’m not sure how, but it totally means that.