It's not about cultural sensitivity. It's about a history of colonization and colonial interference. A lot of the increased conservatism in many countries doesn't have as much to do with culture as it has to do with a reaction to Western supremacist attitudes. After a long history of the West telling other parts of…

When LGBT identities are already seen as a Western import, Biden and Rice's remarks could be viewed as further evidence that the United States, or the West more generally, is interested in destroying local customs and cultural traditions for its own purposes.

Doesn't make sense as no stereotype here is even relevant to anyone. It's just throwing "white" out there so the author(s) can feel ever so special. The "busting on white males" thing is a desperate dog whistle to readers that you are cool and e'er so down with privilege theory and are one of the good white people.…

Two wrongs don't make a right.

I'm happy to see black people getting roles in successful movies, but this movie is garbage and I refuse to support anything affiliated with Steve Harvey. Only a misogynistic asshole would tell women to act like ladies and think like men, which basically translates to, "dress feminine but think logically like us men…

I will never in my life know why people took love advice from Steve Harvey, a man who is on his 76th marriage. Also, this sounds like it was co-written by Tyler Perry.

I had sex liberally as a young woman too. The problem was when I met people I liked. All I knew how to do was to have sex with someone I was attracted to. The guys seemed pretty pleased with that scenario and happy enough to keep it that way. I got sucked into all sorts of demeaning power games. It took me a while to…

The average western person couldn't care less about anything that happens in Uganda. It's only the politicians making a big deal of this in order to be seen as "progressive" while really they're acting like imperialistic bullies.

Speak truth to power.

The link you posted contains quotes from Kikonyongo Kivumbi, one civil rights leader in Uganda, criticizing U.S. foreign policy in April of 2014. I didn't read anywhere in the article that he would specifically endorse what Obama is doing now. I googled Mr. Kivumbi, and I'm not sure that he identifies as LGBT and…

I think you're confusing the average Ugandan for the corrupt politicians/dictators who are directly pocketing the aid money. You probably have this little image in your head that "our money" is going directly to the needy. And now that the Ugandan government is supporting anti-gay/LGBT laws that American evangelicals…

Just to play Devil's Advocate, I'd take a good look at the cultural bias in the reporting. I don't like the status of women in Saudi Arabia either, but I think we knee-jerk our outrage rather than appreciating that there are more ways of being a woman than our own.

I believe OP is talking about the co-option of legitimate gay rights and women's rights activism to advance the political status quo, that hurts everyone, including gay people and women, in the developing world. He or she is arguing that Obama's move here is not helping gay people in Uganda, rather, it's helping the…

I really wonder if the stage is being set for drone strikes and military intervention in that region? "Pinkwashing" has been used to justify war crimes committed by our allies and ourselves (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_mark…) and "women's rights," and by extension the rights of sexual minorities, were used to…

Yeah, its totally about oil, with less than 15% of our oil imports coming from Saudi Arabia. Our relations have much more to do with investment and the military than oil, especially considering the downward trend in US oil imports.

The last part may be true, homosexuality and transgenderism have existed everywhere, forever and are not western imports. But, I've heard from some African LGBT/human rights advocates (who risk prison, violence, exile for speaking out) that they don't think the western agenda of LGBT rights (for example, marriage) is…

BUT DOES THIS COMPANY CHECK YOUR FACEBOOK?!

i was by NO MEANS the mall goth/che t-shirt kid in high school so i don't say this often buuuuuut: that is some fascist horseshit.

The sad thing is this could be used for many other nefarious things. I used to work in higher ed admissions and I've heard of students being denied at other schools (not mine) because of their social media postings. Actually, I know of one person who was denied a graduate internship because of all of their drunk pics…

This is exactly why I won't post any pictures of my Black friends' kids on Facebook or Instagram. Not even kidding. I figure it's only a matter of time...