Well, her body, her choice.

so.

When you call the cops, they have to follow the minimum protocol. The cops did not follow this girl around or randomly pull her aside for her ID. They were CALLED to the scene.

To be fair, Yale university police did follow protocol and checked ID. Given our current environment with shootings, that is justified.

Acrylamide isn’t an industrial additive. It’s a chemical that is made almost any time you cook starches at temperatures above 250 degrees Fahrenheit. You can make acrylamide from frying, baking, broiling or roasting — essentially anything that isn’t boiling or microwaving.

We’re going to need a citation on your assertion that some cashiers at Walmart make more than an English professor.

WTF is “dragon energy”

White folk will never understand because they’re white.

Its like at my office this winter there was big stink about parking spaces. There’s like 10 parking spaces in the front of our building but 40 in the back. There only like 40 people working here so there’s more than enough parking for everyone but for weeks…

Me Too is, at least partly, about fighting toxic masculinity. This piece strikes exactly at how damaging toxic masculinity is and how it perpetuates itself to compound the damage.

I’m not saying people need to burn her records. Just saying for me, personally, it’s hard to get past that. It’s 2018. I really can’t understand why at this point, people are still giving gay people shit.

That is the laugh of a kid who knows the system is fucked, knows he’s getting locked up for no reason, and knows the actual cop who committed the actual murder got off free.

Marginalized persons will identify with the system that oppresses them to be above fellow victims of said system.

I agree. I was just about to type that this was not age appropriate. This is a form of artistic expression-that if I saw on off-off Broadway- or at a college production of students addressing history of racism, I would be more ok with viewing because there is an understanding to deconstruct the blackface.

This would be clever and edgy if done by a group of adults, like in that Spike Lee movie about the modern minstrel show. But having kids do it, black kids and white kids, none of whom are old enough to properly understand what they’re doing and what kind of statement they’re making? No.

It’s hard to tell why I find this so much more objectionable to say a baby blanket. One reason might be that I don’t truly think this is a long-term habit. Her teeth would show that. I have this weird, and truly disgusting feeling, that it’s a fetish for her older boyfriend.

An alternate perspective in the interest of sanity:

I can guarafuckingtee you that I live in a nicer house, in a nicer neighborhood, in a nicer town than you do; not in the “ghetto”.

That’s right. It’s an issue of historical context and how that shapes the meaning of the words we use. That word coming from the mouth of a white person has an inherently different meaning than it does coming from a black person. That’s what linguists call the connotative meaning of a word; the meaning it acquires…

“This is a teachable moment,” Sung told the Times-Dispatch. “It’s not something that we’re proud of. The team is very apologetic and sorry. There’s nobody of any color that should say it. Period. There’s nobody that should say it.”