To your knowledge. Unless you were there, you can’t say with 100% validity that no one was in black face. No one in the released pictures was in black face but the argument is still valid. Don’t use black/brown/red/yellow/white-face as part of a costume unless you want to be thought of as a insensitive, regressive,…

Then hopefully there won’t be any pictures of anyone slathered in tanner to look more Armenian but I have my doubts. And the argument still stands - black/red/yellow-face are unnecessary and offensive.

When will people learn that you can dress as a black character/celebrity without having to do black face? Surprisingly cosplayers frequently manage to dress as nominally Asian characters without taping their eyelids all of the time. And when will people learn not to post their racist/sexist/whatever-ist shit to social…

You didn’t kill your cat. Kallie is right. Kidney issues are a big problem with cats and, often, there isn’t any thing that you can do to stop the inevitable. Sometimes all you can do is just do your best to make your kitty comfortable. I lost one of my cats to kidney failure last year. We tried everything - special…

What’s funny-ish/sad-ish is that I’ve heard people make jokes about Wendy Williams being transgendered or, rather ‘she’s a man, haha’. So you’d think she might be just a tad bit sensitive to transgendered issues and maybe not be just as much of an ass as the people who joke her. But that would require a certain degree…

That’s a sad excuse for a costume and I hope no one wastes real money on it. First, the pizza slices are minuscule. Proper pizza rat needs a giant ass slice of pizza. Second, ‘sexy’ dress and heels combo? Boo. Grey leggings/leotard, pink tail, rat ears and some grey shoes = way better costume. Draw on some whiskers…

Yes Carol501, let’s talk about how you’ve moved forward despite racism against the Irish being the legal and accepted up until 53 years ago. Let’s talk about how much your physical features have made it well nigh impossible for your to blend into the dominant culture. Let’s talk about how hard the Irish continue to…

The problem is that you can’t assume. Considering how much of an effort there seems to be to soften the perception of slavery in these books, there’s every possibility that the reality of the slave trade wouldn’t be discussed. Will the rest of the chapter discuss how tribal groups were purposely separated to keep…

It’s not just a restaurant or retail phenomenon either. I’m a social worker and I frequently have clients and family members tell me how, back in the day, they used to get x, y, z and how I’m being a total bitch for not getting that for them now. They refuse to understand that 1) times change and not every program is…

Black people have a long-standing fear and mistrust of ‘the government’ but the current crop of Teapartiers or whatever we’re calling them take fear and mistrust to whole new levels. It used to be only the fringe lefties and righties believed in a full on slide into ultimate fascism complete with re-education camps.

I’m kind of meh on the Lamilly dolls in general. I get the idea behind them - an alternative to the usual fashion doll - but she just seems sort of boring and generic despite having scar and tattoo options. I still may buy one to have her as part of my doll collection though. Normally I still to black dolls though I…

The site has a black doll coming up so there’s that. Ages ago when I was really into doll collecting there were a couple of specialty companies - one was Integrity I think - that seemed to specialize in non-white dolls but I’m pretty much out of the loop now. Personally I’ve always found it hard to find a non-white…

All of the nurses and patient care technicians at my dialysis clinic have stethoscopes. The RNs use theirs to check vitals, the PCTs use theirs to check fistulas and grafts. One of the docs that sails through doesn’t even wear one, just borrows one from a nurse or tech. I assume Joy Behar has never had her vitals…

It’s all about the context for me. Nude or topless kid running around in the backyard, at the beach, at a park - fine. Topless or nude kid walking through Time Square with her topless, painted mother - not so much. It’s too sexualized. It’s like if a stripper took her toddler to work and let her walk around the stage…

Probably not because ‘freedum!’. It would make sense, though, and cut down on one aspect of identity theft. But it could also be seen as legitimizing undocumented immigrants rather than encouraging them to move towards becoming documented. It’s a messed up system all the way around. If people come here to work and are…

Right. I get that people are upset about what happened to this woman but you can’t totally ignore the fact that she presented with a fake ID that she likely bought off of someone who makes good money off of identity theft. They usually don’t make shit up wholesale, the identity likely belongs to someone who is going…

So this woman gets to sit in lock up, no one is working, and the family is likely going to be separated. I guess that’s considered a win? This is a good example of why immigration reform needs to focus on streamlining the process of citizenship rather than booting people out. She had been here for years with no…

Except that health care providers are required to report suspected fraud. She used a fake ID. Staff likely have been told to report that immediately especially since the provider could get in trouble for not doing so. In my clinic we get copies of IDs and insurance cards and we have been instructed to report to our…

You suggested it. Seems more like people who don’t understand how laws work are the problem. Right up there with people who don’t understand that not everything requires a def-con 4 response.

And no race, ethnic, or religious-based groups either.