I’m familiar with how young people are dressing and have been in schools recently (scouting film shoots) and it looks pretty much the same to me as adults. Some kids are doing the gender fluidity thing but the vast majority are not. And this is in Los Angeles at private liberal schools that don’t have set dress codes…

I had a lower red version of these in the late 90s. 

Gender representation isn’t changing as fast as people think it is though. If you go outside and watch people walking by, the vast majority of them clearly present as male or female regardless of their personal gender identity or genetic sex. I anticipate a future where gender presentation is more fluid but the vast…

People are dumb and scared but dumb and scared =/= having millions to spend on gender-recognition software and retrofitting an existing space to work with it.

Exactly. And they are also not foolproof because the camera can only see what it’s looking at. If they are pointed other directions or not functional, you’ve got nothing.

The bathroom scenario is ridiculous because I cannot imagine anyone would spend the money to do that. I suspect this type of thing would be prohibitively expensive to implement and the only places that would want to put them in would be in areas where they can barely afford to keep their lights on. 

What would be a more reliable method? Generally, since the cops weren’t there when the event/crime happened, they have to rely on either eyewitness accounts or surveillance footage to piece together what happened.

Los Angeles. Land of folks who don’t wear real shoes because we never get real “weather”. I went to schools that were closer to the beach as well (even though I lived far inland) so I grew up with a culture of wearing flip flops and sandals everywhere and when you could get away with it, no shoes at all. 

The Obamas can do no wrong but I am firmly of the opinion that if it’s too hot to wear pants, it’s too hot to wear closed toed shoes and socks.

“But ultimately, I’m saying for anybody who has money [and is] black, I think should be held to finance at least one or two black filmmakers trying to make their first film. I just think it’s important because then what will happen is we’re keeping the well within our community.

You support the black people who want to produce films and leave everyone else alone. For the millionth time, it is not for Lena Waithe to decide how other people spend their money.

I work in Hollywood and Mike is right. No one has any right to tell anyone what to do with their money. 

Both of them have done a lot of work and given a lot of money to help black people rise up in various arenas, not just entertainment.

I work in production and I’m a black woman. I agree that black people in our business should help others when they can-I’ve recommended other black PAs for jobs that I’m not available for which is pretty much all I have the power to do. I have been given my chances by white people. Even this latest job I have where…

It looks like he’s trying to get something out of his teeth without pulling his lips back. Maybe he thinks it’d be rude to openly pick at something in his mouth. 

I don’t have time right now to research if anything you said is true (I tend not to take random internet strangers at their word about global economic strategies and also because I’m at work and this is already taking up more of my time than I’d like), but I’ll tell you this: insisting that only Bernie (and a far left…

The media exists to sell commercial break spots and get eyeballs looking at them. The media isn’t intentionally doing anything to Bernie. He’s bad at getting his talking points across quickly and effectively. That’s no one’s fault but his own.

I think part of his inability to “speak in sound bytes”, as you say, is that he’s not great at speaking off the cuff about issues he’s not quite versed on. He should have prepared an answer to that question or been prepared by his campaign staff. Instead he seemed caught off guard and couldn’t right the ship. I don’t…

What he said is technically true-there are definitely many progressives who would prefer a woman or a young person or someone who is both. I’m one of them. I’d prefer a person of color as well. I’m sick to death of old white men leading this country. It’s not a controversial stance to have nor would it be…

The best alternative would be saying “She’s not a more electable version of me-our campaigns are different and here’s why: [blah blah explain why he’s better because of policy differences and/or revert to talking points]”.