Yup. She really dug herself in deep with that comment. I always enjoy it when secret classism and bigotry lets itself slip out, during discussion about an otherwise unrelated topic. No, please, tell us your thoughtful and enlightened opinions about public schooling. Of course, it is true that not once, during my time…

This person is hideous for so many reasons. I would like to especially point out, though, that having any interest or investment in the eating habits of ANYONE else is just the worst thing ever. What the fuck is wrong with you that you are watching and cataloguing the food that somebody else is eating? So invasive and…

Please, please tell me this was created by the same artist who did MK & A picture-pocket shower curtains? Her art is aMAZing. I will hunt down her name and some pics of her stuff. BRB

Whoa - I am a little confused that anyone is offended by Rachel Shukert's article here. I didn't find it dismissive to other YA writers at all. An article that was just a re-cap/review of a handful of feminist YA books, or an article that just cut-and-pasted ideas that have already been expressed, would not have been…

I also do not like the word "slut" (or the word "prude," which another poster mentioned), and I wish we (women) would stop encouraging the use of that term. Really either of those terms, that define a woman based on her displayed sexual/erotic/romantic characteristics alone. I think we are actually helping to…

Lol - wow this girl is a dead-ringer for the jock girl who repeatedly threatened to beat me up in sixth grade. (She never followed through, and when I got to know her she was actually pretty funny and cool.) The girl to the direct left of her, and the girl on the far right of the picture, remind me of the popular…

Raise your child in the American South, and they will have an excellent chance of being musically gifted and will likely receive an unbelievably quality musical education. The social skills and graces they will inately develop can only be described as a superpower - this is not an exaggeration. On the downside,…

Same here. The only time I wear make-up is if I'm breaking out and I have to put concealer on. (Even then it looks terrible, because I suck at make-up.) I also am not making any kind of point, I just don't care/think about clothes or make-up or hair, but I definitely consider myself feminine, very female. It makes me…

Yes, passive aggressive counts as bullying, absolutely. (I mean, I don't know if technically counts, legally or anything, but it is terrible.) It is worse because it is so hard to document. If somebody yells at you or sends you a threatening e-mail directly, you can save and document that shit. Passive aggressive…

Heh - I love Coming to America. (I couldn't get the clip to play, though. Boo.) But, anyway, no, of course doing an accent isn't racist. I think it becomes racist when it's a (in this case, white) majority doing the imitation, and the imitation is of a race/class/gender that is in danger of subjugation and/or…

Seriously - this shit is mad racist. There may be lots of people of color who are not offended, that's fine. And I see that it is not mean-spirited or ill intentioned, but it still propagates racial stereotypes and helps create a culture that diminishes Jamaican black men into non-threatening, lovable (but laughable)…