I had a revelation lately about that whole rule about starting sentences in fights with "I feel like...." For the longest time, I scoffed at it because it was all feely and ugh!

See, that kind of rubs me the wrong way, because it's enforcing a particular label on her as a direct consequence of her actions, as opposed to letting her identify how she wishes to. According to that interview, though, it seems like she's not particularly interested in neatly packaging her sexual identity for public…

Perhaps you're right, but his choice of words was appalling. To describe an extreme, regressive, reality-phobic faction of American conservatives as "conventional" or in any way having "conventional views" is like describing the Boston Marathon or 9/11 terrorists as "protestors."

This is like the argument that I was having with a commenter that told me that she as a White conservative knows more about racism than I do. Girl, motherfucking PLEASE.

No one is saying Cohen agrees with the line that interracial relationships are sickening. What he's saying, though, is that Americans who gag when they encounter an interracial family are "conventional" people, and not terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad racists. If a person "gags" when he sees an interracial couple…

It's still "comparatively." I don't understand why everyone is having orgasms over this same shit sandwich in a less-fancy, populist wrapper.

I can't believe this guy is letting his hatred for fatties get in the way of good business. People always use that argument "if plus size clothing was profitable people would make it" this is a shining example of how that's not even close to true. These people hate fatties more than they love money

Someone with more go-get-it-iveness than me should write a cute movie about a pedicurist who is privy to all sorts of extremely valuable insider-y business information from all the power ladies getting power-pedis at her station and becomes a huge powerful success by leveraging that information at which point she…

I find feet gross and would not be interested in foot grooming with others, even in a business setting. It actually strikes me as unprofessional.

It is 2013, where is my pan that flips things half way through cooking for me?

She's a bootstrappin' Randian with inaccurate ideas about where true prosperity comes from, it sounds like. Lost cause, most likely.

i get what lily allen was trying to do and the song is catchy, but parts of it just did not feel entirely right for this privileged white woman to be speaking for what is most often the fetishization and over-sexualization of women of color. Also, the song really simplified the issue (but maybe i should stop looking…

Not sure how much the irony is being enjoyed by all those fetishized/anonymous/non-white backing dancers, though. Like...it's ok to objectify black women because Lily Allen is making a feminist point right in front of them?!

So if republicans become prochoice and fix their stance on women's issues is that enough do we all just say say OK ... all that other stuff you do where you screw poor people and minorities is just fine! I just don't see the endgame here.

I agree with everything here, yet I kind of wonder about the result of any…

Of course they're not interested in the votes of women of color. It's practically in the GOP's charter that women of color specifically and people of color in general "just want handouts from white people's tax money."

There's a great piece on the Daily Beast about black conservatives here.

A woman in her early 30's that I work with is a Republican, and I wondered why...
Turns out, she was raised in a rich, religious family and shows a clear lack of being able to empathize with any human different from her. womp womp

I heard a Republican political analyst on NPR after the last presidential election saying that the reason the GOP failed to win was that they hadn't "effectively communicated" with women and minorities. He said that the GOP needs more women and minority politicians to "explain the Republican platform to them." God,…

Oh, I really, really wish this were completely true. I've got a sister-in-law who is constantly posting things on facebook about how Muslims who don't integrate completely should be sent back to 'wherever they came from', how not being 100% patriotic is the same as siding with terrorists, how governments shouldn't…

Why do White people live in fear and hatred of groups of people that are clearly socially disadvantaged? What do you people have to fear? For all of the organizing and activism we do to create equality for ourselves, we're clearly not winning. Yet you remain so afraid of us that you shoot us for, basically, just…