really? it’s just a word? when i was walking down the road alone last year and some white guy shouted that out to me as he drove by, i was terrified. i thought he was going to turn around and attack me. you will never understand the fear, humiliation and anger that one word can generate. i think your reply is quite…

When I took Acting 101 in college a million years ago, one of our early assignments was to learn how to say cuss words. We were given a sheet of about fifty different words ranging from mild cursing to really bad words. We each had to stand in front of the class and say all the words on the list without stumbling,…

Counter counter point. Its not just a word your “argument” is bullshit and just DONT FUCKING SAY THE WORD ITS NOT THAT PAINFUL TO JUST NOT SAY IT MY GOD

Whoa, you said it at work? Thank you for changing that habit. Sincerely, don’t mean that in a snarky way.

As a Black person, FUCK NOPE. Black pain isn’t here for comedians to get a laugh from. What the fuck.

Probably the most notable exception is for actor portraying a character. We couldn’t hate Taggart the appropriate amount in Blazing Saddles if he didn’t say it.

There’s an entire field of study on precisely that question.

I’m ashamed to say I totally thought it was okay for me to ironically use the word because, after all, iiiii wasn’t racist. That was over ten years ago in my mid-twenties when I was pulled aside by an older black co-worker and put in my place. I don’t know how you get to Maher’s age without realizing that it doesn’t…

Because reclamation is a thing, but it has nothing to do with those outside the group doing the reclaiming: that’s a debate for within the group. See (((jewish))) on Twitter or queer.

Or reading literature. My English teacher had an entire class discussion about whether or not people should censor the n-word in Huckleberry Finn. She was against censoring it because she said the book clearly depicts how terrible the true meaning of the word is and changing it to something else would take away from…

Maher didn’t radically misjudge the mood. He doesn’t give one damn about “the mood.” He’s simply racist. And sexist. And a narcissist. If people laugh, he’s affirmed. If they don’t, they just don’t get it or are too shackled by “political correctness” to be “with it”. But he’s never been with it. He’s an old troll in…

Such a neat scenario. I’d calmly pack a small bag and take my dog for a bike ride. This is a normal thing for me, so if I’m being watched, I don’t look spooked, but I have enough packed to keep my dog and I safe for a few days, and a mode of transportation.

I live a very simple life, too, but I still occasionally envision extremely unlikely scenarios...Like this past weekend when a very loud helicopter passed over my neighborhood, and as the noise consumed the room I thought to myself, “What if the helicopter crashed into my house?” So I imagine that in the phone call…

Wait, am I to take it that I am talking on a land line in this scenario?

Leave the house?

Outlander sucks.

Let me know when V.C. Andrews gets added to the list. Those books were my entree into sexy books AND messed me up about sex for a while.

It’s been awhile since I read the book, but I remember it as being a lot less romantic about the immense poverty and fucked up-ness of her childhood. The trailer seems to completely glamorize her childhood in an “adventurous” and “off the beaten path” sort of way instead of how she truly portrayed it - full of anxiety…

when i watched the coco-sam throwback to their freshman year, i texted my friend saying that i loved colandrea more than anyone else and i worried it was cause of her mirroring whiteness (though i still suspect it’s cause she’s the BEST slash also, the south side of chicago is still a big part of my heart more than a…

It’s fucking fantastic, says this 40-something white Canadian chick who just finished episode four and is totally in love with Coco. She is an amazing character...