Anybody besides me remember when the 70s came back in the 90s briefly? It looked exactly like this. So this is basically the 90s version of the 70s come back to haunt us all.

The whole point is that the story does NOT fit the white European-descended meme of progress and triumph. The majority of humanity has “lost” at some time, either vanishing from history or becoming assimilated by other cultures. One reading of the story is that it’s a parable of the African-American experience: losing…

Thank you. I’m not exactly thrilled that it happened either, but through the experiences that I’ve received because of it (court system, foster care system, etc...) I’ve learned a lot about a world that most people have no clue about, and I share that information as often as I can.

This varies by culture though. In Bolivia it is common practice to clap twice or snap your fingers to get a waiter’s attention. If you don’t, they won’t stop by your table because they don’t want to interrupt you. Honestly it’s a good system because you get service immediately when you want it and you never get…

I’ve been tested for celiac and I don’t have it. If I drink a beer or eat fries that have some flour on it (for crispiness), I get diarrhea that lasts 3 days along with extremely painful abdominal spasms while I have the bowel movements. Not to mention ridiculous amounts of gas, and anal leakage. Bread, donuts, baked…

Really? The only people who have any adverse reaction to gluten are people with Celiac? Wow, you should get your paper published ASAP since that’s news to me. Plenty of people have bullshit reasons for not eating gluten, but it is absolutely a substance that can cause adverse reactions in more than literally zero…

My wife gets very bad heartburn from eating gluten. She does not have celiacs disease, just an intolerance to gluten.

Whilst she may well have been full of shit, like most people obsessed with gluten, it actually can work the way she says it does:

Well, that’s because it’s a Prince song.

Why are you in the greys again? Your posts are consistently excellent. Is “internalized misogyny” a common phrase because I love it. I know it has connotations of self loathing but it’s better and deeper than that.

I also think there is a distinct difference between being a less than admirable person making art, versus being someone who not only created work - but promoted their own personality as a part of it.

He’ll be the next Woody Allen/Roman Polanski type that we’re all told to separate their art from their “personal lives” as if their “invaluable contribution to the arts” should shield them from the consequences of their actions.

It was already annoying being mixed and looking white without this “tragic faux-latto” bullshit in the news.

Exactly! I did a research paper on old men’s magazine, playboy vs the black one based in chicago, I can’t think of its name now it had like six issues, and the difference between the magazine then and the way Hef is now has always sort of confused me. Because the magazine in its early days really had a very…

He donated money and time to getting ERA passed. Of course that was a long time ago. As I said to someone else, all I know about him dates from years ago so if he’s gotten skeevier, I just missed it. The last things I remember were him writing/talking about date rape and the need for consent and sexual harassment back…

What’s wrong with prostitutes? I guess it’s fair game to treat them like shit?

Right? Who exactly coined that phrase, Roman Polanski?

The advantage of “pro-forced birth” is that it also alludes to the fact that these people have very specific ideas for what should happen to the babies of poor women and women in crisis once they are born. They don’t actually see the women who have these currently unsustainable babies as potential mothers. They see…

Having a friend going thorugh this with her daughter, I think that no one expects these kids to succeed academically while they are going through treatment. It’s a given that they will be behind, probably a lot. But school provides a really nice sense of normalcy when your life is completely uprooted by a life…

Cody Oakes, 25, an operations manager for J.P. Morgan, had been ready to walk out the door with a duffel bag in his hand to go to football practice. (He plays quarterback and wide receiver for the Bellingham Bulldogs, a semi-pro team.) He'd noticed heavily armed police in camouflage marching down the road.