That is brilliant! Cake should be on hand at all occasions.

I like to imagine it was a cake with white frosting and someone was on standby with a wide array of colored frosting in squeeze tubes to write the team name in team colors on the cake. Or maybe it was just a cake with "Congratulations Michael Sam" or something wrote on it. But I like my idea better.

I mostly agree accept I think knowingly getting involved with someone who is suppose to be monogamist is doing something you know will very likely hurt someone else and is a really inconsiderate thing to do, but agree the supposedly monogamous person is the one committing a betrayal and "wrecking" their family.

That actually does explain how the Supreme Court could make the ruling it did on DOMA and then turn around and take a step towards gutting voting protections. I'm not saying I'm gonna put on a tinfoil hat, but I might make one....just in case.

The reinforcement of oppression through the combination of dominant narrative and commercialism is something I agree with. I think that what Beyonce does as a brand is different from what she may do as an individual. But to me hooks' words encompass non-commercialized sexuality as well and draw on the same rhetoric as…

hooks seems to be lobbing some of the criticism made against her against Beyonce though. She talks about how she was accused of participating in her own subjugation by not rejecting sexual/romantic relationships by men. The very idea that she could not truly promote and love womanhood while at the same time…

Agree with most of what you said except it needs to be pointed out that length of time will not necessarily prevent loose skin. In another article it says she lost 170lbs in 4 years which amounts to less than a pound a week. I think it is important to point out the reality that with weight loss often comes loose skin,…

Pointing out his sexism doesn't inherently take away from POC because WOC are affected by sexism too. Your comment suggests that bringing up sexism distracts from POC and makes it about white feminism only. It reeks of the kinds of comments black feminists/womanists often receive that accuse of not caring enough about…

My apologies, I thought you were dismissing their comment where they spoke on Jesus' view of adultery and divorce and their argument on how some might still view/use the moral laws. I agree that the "why would black people..." can be faulty logic because many black services/traditions in the U.S. can differ so greatly…

Just because someone has a different view of Christianity than you doesn't mean they are uneducated on it. The interpertation of Christianity they describe fits with much of what I was raised with. There are many interpertations of Christianity, and Jesus is in fact attributed with some really messed up things…

I couldn't find the one I wanted of someone throwing the pin instead of the grenade (not live fire), but found this instead:

Or maybe what is considered appropriate is starting to change? Seeing as how a lot of dress expectations are coded around gender and class, I really don't see the idea of what is and is not considered "appropriate" getting laxer to be a bad thing. Social awareness is important, but social pressure can be dangerous and…

I also don't see what you read as victim-blaming but rather expressing how stories like these impact you personally. For instance, after reading about how some serial killers used being hurt as a ploy to get people to help them, I have this fear of helping anyone load or unload things. It isn't the same as saying…

Personally, the lack of POC depicted in futuristic tales has me paranoid as all get out. Are some white people planning something I need to know about? Until the depictions diversify more, I'm Conspiracy Brother (from Undercover Brother) levels of jumpy. In the meantime, for YA at least, there is:

Oh, you know it would turn out the guy was frustrated at the signifiers of wealth and that the woman was pressured into online dating by her sassy gay black best friend who felt she needed to stop being so career-oriented. Loosing an expensive dog (who she never took the time to really emotionally invest in, the sassy…

That seems plausible to me. Once, I met someone being detained whose entire family had been here since he was a child and had started attending college. However, because he kept delaying applying for citizenship once he turned 18, when he was busted with drugs (marijuana I believe), he wasn't yet a citizen and was…

Also, there is food that gets wasted in order to keep prices up. For instance, wheat farmers during the Great Depression, apparently at one point a juice company put bleach in its excess juice to keep away dumpster divers (this info came from said dumpster divers and protesters of that company though), and in some…

It seems that sewing being feminine only is quite recent and has more to do with the availability of ready-made clothes whereas before, clothing making would not have been considered inherently masculine. I don't even think it is today as while the term seamstress may imply female the word tailor doesn't inherently.

I defiantly agree that some of the more aggressive (as in engage in an argument out of nowhere and apply assumptions before someone even explains their beliefs) strong atheists can be just as arrogant, and also just as sexist because they tend to go the evo-psych route to justify double standards and dismiss rape…

Atheism and agnosticism are not mutually exclusive. You claim that atheism means claim to know their is no deity, but it actually means not believing in one. It is possible to not believe, and admit you don't know. You can be an Agnostic Theist, and Agnostic Atheist, a Gnostic Theist, or a Gnostic Atheist (or…