Typing on a phone so read between the lines and assume good faith. I’m a white man (probably: not all of us have the privilege of knowing our heritage with certainty, in any case we all have black ancestors). This story is a mile stone because it is helping to deconstruct PC in a good way. Yes racists and transphobics…

Terrible women are just as bad as terrible men- see, the distinction comes when you realize skin color doesn’t have a damn thing to do with it. Shitty people are shitty people regardless.

You can download the ebook for free from a torrent site when it comes out.

I was the only woman at two of my former jobs and being in meetings was....interesting. They completely forgot I was there, and that I was a woman. I honestly can’t even count how many times I had to say ‘WHOA, dudes, not fucking cool to talk about women like that’ during actual company meetings. Then I’d get ‘Oh, but…

The Austin City Council receives training on dealing with the ladies:

If I were any institution of higher learning, I wouldn’t want a single one of my employees such language ESPECIALLY around such a hot button issue. “Deal with your white sh*t white people!” is rhetoric NOT befitting a university. End of story.

There was truth in those statements - in that American slavery was largely perpetrated by Europeans, and that after the Atlantic Slave Trade was outlawed, the propagation of slavery was done mostly via inheritances of white southern plantation owners. However, suggesting that the whole institution of slavery was solely…

I would not feel welcome, as a white person, to express differing views in her classroom. That’s a shitty way to be a professor.

Yeah, my posts up to this point have been very critical of her, but supportive of her remaining employed at the University.

Yeah she should just be fired. My previous post was more supoprtive of her but she sounds really unneducated and just like an unedcated ball of hate, poor me, its all about me. She doesn’t even understand how class and gender dynamics affect these issues. As much as always would love to support women if they are this…

Natasha, thanks for this piece. Seriously thanks. And I’ve BTDT. It took until I was about 35 years old to start to get a glimmer of what our relationship was; it then took a mere 45 minute conversation with a social worker/therapist at my wife’s church for it to snap into focus...and what spurred that discussion was…

Thanks so much for this. My mom’s bi-polar and an alcoholic and I’ve been a “middle ground” child for years now. I relocated from CA to NC last year, in an effort to be closer to pretty much every other member of the family other than her. I’m about 2.5 hours away and she has yet to visit me in my new home: she can’t…

Not sure how “my wealthy Mexican grandfather killed a dog on his ranch” equates to “you silly Americans and your distaste for animal cruelty” but mmmkay

My grandfather owned a farm in Mexico. He NEVER killed his dogs. One of his dogs had a terminal disease once and the vet said it was useless and my grandma kept it at home and took care of it until it died. #notallmexicanranchers

I think it's hilarious that anyone who comes from family in Mexico would actually complain about the American justice system.

So, are you arguing that it is impossible to care about violence towards animals and about police violence? Is it not possible to care about both? Someone cares about animals; therefore, they must not care enough about people?

I love it when people admonish others for not caring about things like victims of police brutality when they care for animals, as if the two are mutually exclusive. I’m sorry that I have both been at protests in Ferguson AND walk dogs at the local shelter.

Ranchers have reasons to protect their property. This woman was a veterinarian someone who is supposed to save animals, and kill them only if the animal is suffering. Instead she decided to make killing a cat her own personal sport. She didn’t do it to save her practice. She did it for fun. The attitude could well…

It’s a bummer that you mistakenly feel like people can only care about one thing at a time AND that you think animals are merely some sort of Cartesian clockwork tool you can dispose of when they are no longer “useful.” I see your smug self-righteousness and raise you an “I think your callous disregard for life is…