It's more likely that feminists will criticize the male. That's been the case most of the time. Either he says the wrong wording or it'll be questioned why it suddenly matters when a man says something, or he'll simply get criticized for not having spoken up before.

That's simply not true. There are tons of black rappers who have problematic lyrics and are considered meaningful rappers.

You're trying too hard with "thirsty".

Yeah, and it causes huge holes in our thinking. But I still place blame on Camille. We all have confirmation biases but it's still our responsibility when they overwhelm rationality.

"Traister writes that this is due to people's desire to cling to the version of "white blamelessness" presented on The Cosby Show. "

While that certainly has merit, he's neglecting that people have the same reaction to "alleged" when it's used with victim. There's really not a way to say it's not proven that someone is a victim without it muting the power of the word victim.

I don't agree. He sounded sincere and apologetic. The problem is when people say "I'm sorry if you were offended" as a deflection, not that a person can't be genuinely sorry if he/she offends viewers. Lemon came off as the latter to me.

So how do they bring it up without talking about it?

The amazing thing to me is that I'd never heard about it until Gawker brought it back up a couple months ago.

The "I get the joke" statement reminded me of Lindy West's defense of Louis CK's rape jokes as "it's Louis Ck".

Didn't you write a long article that was essentially about how Whitlock can't handle criticism?

That's wrong though. Retail prices are determined by sales volume in addition to material cost. If you're selling 10 medium T-shirts with a $3 profit in a day versus 2 XXX large t-shirts at $5, you're making three times as much profit despite the smaller margin per t-shirt. That is Old Navy's business model- whatever…

Why shouldn't they tell people the truth?

Then why am I scared to come by your house?

Right, because white people are still in the position of power. As soon as it's not okay to say it about white people, we'll know it's no longer true. Until that day comes, white people have to live with more privilege and it being okay to say things like "white songs".

I don't see why it wouldn't, seeing as so far it's followed the "be outraged by everything, yell about it, and call anyone who disagrees a racist" fauxrage playbook to a T.

You're reading that into it. It's just wordplay.

It's 8.

But you did neglect that she belongs to a strong union that negotiates the day rate.

If possible, it should be a knee to the groin. It's in closer and doesn't knock the person doing it off balance.