So if it doesn’t feel different, when you’re called on it, you apologize, acknowledge that intentionally or not, you DID it, and you both move past it. You don’t say ‘it never happened because I didn’t mean for it to happen and I’d never do that and that’s not my intention’. Let’s look at this another way: if you…

That’s kinda how the acting different works. Different god, different faith, different religious practices are traditionally used to justify antisemitism. It’s not a thing blamable exclusively on Catholicism or even Christianity -I’ve met plenty of antisemitic atheists.

His history of working against that stuff combined with desperate optimism.

EDIT: The fair-skinned/not-excessively-tan, European-extraction Jews get treated as white. The Jews of Asian and African descent don’t, and for Mediterranean and Middle Eastern, it varies. Antisemitism’s a thing, but it’s usually not because we look different; it’s mostly because we ACT different.

Having had people grab my ass under the guise of ‘pulling me close’, it’s pretty obvious which is which. A full-handed ass-grab feels noticeably different than someone pulling you closer -even with their hand lower than it should be.

Most of us can claim white privilege in every instance except directly interacting with a white supremacist or antisemite, but the legal system overwhelmingly treats us as white.

Agree. People are falsely accused of rape slightly less often than they are falsely accused of any other crime. Over 99% of rapists will never be jailed for it. That’s what ‘due process’ looks like now.

I was just disappointed. Franken’s work towards closing the wage gap and gender equality were exactly the sort of thing I would hope someone who rapes/harasses women does afterwards -in addition to a sincere apology that takes ownership of the actions and how harmful they were. But finding out that he felt he deserved…

I had a teammate in high school like this. Dude learns languages terrifyingly quickly -and can do regional dialects for them- is, in his words, “ambiguously beige. I could be anything, and you’d never know!” Last I heard, his goal was to be a Foreign Service Officer.

Only the young ones who are “at least an eight”.

What horrifies me is that not only would a group of black kids be expelled for talking about killing a white kid; it’s a black kid who’s far more likely to get killed by the white kids spewing racist bullshit. Hypocrisy at its finest.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong here, but the cheeto-in-chief’s got several accusations of improper sexual misconduct with minors himself, yes? He’s bragged about walking into the dressing rooms of the pageants he owned while the women were naked multiple times, and several former Miss TEEN USA (a pageant for girls as…

Indeed. The closest we get with American Sharia law is something shared with Judaism, in that ‘halal’, like ‘kosher’ can be a registered trademark, and you can be sued for false advertising if you claim the food’s religiously permissible and it isn’t. Also the part where an Imam, like a rabbi, priest, minister, or any…

....what the actual fucking fuck? A grown-ass adult, with no apparent connections to an elementary school or the particular student therein, obtained a child’s homework, defaced it with an obscenely-detailed stick-figure drawing of a school shooting, and the assignment possibly somehow got back to the student? I’m up…

I am so, so sorry. I can’t help. I wish I could. All I can do is tell you what I’m sure you already know: that that’s not normal and in no way acceptable, that you did not invite that, have done your best and what is happening is not your fault, and you deserve better, and that I believe you and other people will and…

I didn’t know Aerie existed. You are now possibly my new favorite person.

The one that frustrates me the most is the guys who complain about women not being direct or saying what we mean, but still try to turn ‘no’ into ‘yes’. If someone tells you no, how much clearer can they get? What do these people want -a giant fireball of rage and hate? Mace? Getting stabbed? Not getting the answer…

Our experiences have been different with regards to this. Most of my friends -regardless of gender -don’t read social cues well and are painfully awkward, and many are neuroatypical. When the people I know use ‘creepy/sketchy/rapey’ consistently to describe someone, it’s invariably someone who keeps pressing…

My view isn’t that kids shouldn’t handle firearms at all -and I’d love to see more people doing the sort of demystifying you laid out here, because if a kid never sees one and doesn’t know what it is, there’s too much of a chance of them treating it like a toy when they first do encounter one -which, in America, they…

He’s.... suing someone. Because his wife preferred the other guy. Which is entirely his fault and makes him a bad person?