I'm all for pointing out cultural appropriation and calling out those who perpetrate it, but I fail to feel outrage over this video. I mean at least Taylor thinks that it's a dance equivalent to ballet and interpretive instead of going, "eww black girls shaking their asses, yuck". And if all the dancers were white,…

Even if she's parodying them to some extent, nothing excuses how bad this video is. It's just bad. I don't know why I did that to myself.

You'll find that the people doing the oppressing always want to start the narrative at a convenient part, or always want to start the story in the middle.

I hated that book so much. I had to stop after he assumed a woman he's just met is a lesbian solely because she has short hair and is wearing armor or something. So many things about that book infuriated me but that was the last straw. UGH

I read the first two and about to start the third once I finish my current book. I have such mixed feelings about them. On one hand they made me so angry, especially the ending of the first, but then again, they really stuck in my brain and like you, all I wanted to do was talk about them.

I read the first one. I kind of hated it, and thought it was overrated though it had many good qualities (world-building, as you mention). I thought the pacing was a mess, and the treatment of women made me ill. I didn't bother reading the second.

I haven't read them yet — but have you heard they're making them into a TV series?

I haven't read them yet, but my friends all RAVE about them. These are the books with all the Narnia references, right? I want to read all of those books before I read these so I'll understand all the allusions.

I work with kids, so I have lots of crazy stories, but there are a few recent things that really make me question what I'm doing with my life: I'm assisting a day camp, and one of the kids is a psychopath. He's very into science, though, so he mostly just blurts out all of the answers and walks up to us to talk in the…

Now, you have to work your way up to Hiddleston; he's an advanced level English boyfriend.

Thousands of YouTubers who painstakingly added lyrics to favorite videos have got to be feeling the burn right now.

The things she says are unfortunate but if ever anyone is likely to say something like that it's when they've just been in fear for their life.

I was rear ended at a stop light by a dude going 40 miles an hour. He totaled my car. I got out and exchanged insurance information with him. I didn't go on a racist tirade & threaten to kill him because I am not, in fact, clinically insane.

when is it okay to threaten to kill someone's children? If this had been a black dude threatening a white suburban housewife do you think you would be making excuses for him right now?

I can't help but lol at her for calling him both an Atheist and a Muslim in the same breath.

There are quite a lot of young women as well - Evan Rachel Wood, Zooey Deschanel, Olivia Wilde, Ellen Page. It's just that actresses get asked the question a lot, and the ones who are anti-feminist or just badly informed get quoted. I don't think actors get asked the question unless the interviewer knows that the…

testiculos habet et bene pendentes.

I'm sure Hoda and Kathy Lee will have some scathing insights into this miscarriage of justice. Right after the next segment on wine....for dogs!

The shooter and his family are in protective custody somewhere. Probably have been since Sunday morning when the Ferguson PD realized how badly they fucked up.

Just saw this on the Anonymous twitter: