It’s a stupid argument. By default, it will NEVER be inclusive enough. You could have a one-armed man of indistinct ethnicity with a scar running down half his body and these people would STILL probably complain it isn’t diverse enough. The conversation we should be having is how to avoid objectification in the first…

Yay! Now every body type gets to be objectified by the male gaze!

Self-strangulation

Weird. Your whole argument is weird.

Ditto

Mr. Chickens? Are we seriously giving cutsie-tootsie names to our significant others now?

Wow. I haven't filled in my race on census reports in a loooong time, but I think it's official - I will never be white again if I have to be associated with freaks like that.

No it isn’t. His job description is acting in films and promoting those films if his contract states so. People might be excited to see him in public, but that doesn’t mean that get to act like assholes.

Ha ha ha! Lmao!!!

??? Seriously? Every Canadian I’ve met speaks highly of it - but maybe because everyone I’ve met has also lived in the states and would never even consider going to the American system!

Thanks for the kind words. I actually do work for a multinational - I’m in translation! Ha ha ha!

Even better ;-)

Right. I remember it having a pretty frank (and hilarious) sex or sex advice column... Also some of the best interviews with contemporary authors out there. Am I actually right that I read an interview with Gabriel Garcia Marquez in there?

Jesus, you just made me sad. I should probably be looking elsewhere to live too. I’m not black, but my interests are similar to yours. I’m white, but don’t feel ‘White American’. All of my serious boyfriends have been from S. America. Maybe it’s time I moved there?

Bof. French men seem permanently repressed. They barely deserve the title of being part of the “Latin” cultures.

Hahaha! Because of that comment about Scandinavian women. Love it!

Listen, I never lived in Germany - visited it a bunch, have German friends, etc, even a friend from Paris who fell in love with Berlin so much that he bought a flat there - but never lived there and do not speak any German outside of the bitte, danke schön variety.

Well, if you were only visiting for a short time (in UK and France), there’s little you can tell anyway (e.g. there might have been some other cultural cue you might have missed that had little to do with how they thought about Americans in general). Though, I’m sorry that you felt ostracized while you were on your…

Sure, sure, I agree with that - 7 years living in “Europe” (3 in CR, 4 in Fr) actually convinced me that Americans are waaaay more advanced in identity politics than either of those places, even if they can outwardly seem more genteel. I’m just saying that your teaching abroad experience in Germany doesn’t mean…

So true about the French stuff. I lived in Paris for 4 years and I remember seeing mixed race couples very often and I was like: “Look! How progressive!” Then I started noticing it was ALWAYS some older rich white dude (white hair, expensive suit, nice car, etc) and some GORGEOUS young black woman... After seeing this…