Glad we agree! I get irritated over what I percieve to be a lot of more financially comfortable peoples' lack of understanding for consumers that don't have the same resources. Consumerism is something with repercussions that extend far beyond ethical consumer practice and gets right to the heart of business ethics…

I find it unfair to criticize shoppers at fast fashion chains as being inherently aligned with/supportive of a company's fucked-up campaign contributions. It's easy to claim that everyone who shops at a big fast-fashion corporate chain like Target or UO or Gap or Forever 21 or whatever is homophobic/insensitive to…

Does anyone have Cynthia Plaster Caster's number? I'd like to hear her take on this.

I think boobs are one of those parts that can manage to be both funny and arousing, though. (See: Meyer, Russ.)

Let's also not forget that some of the irony found in jokes about the sexualization of men's bodies is that this is also seen primarily as something that only gay men, and not heterosexual women, participate in. Nekkid Menz are intrinsically linked to homoeroticism in western culture.

I think it makes sense for an award about achievement in music to have more categories than, say, the Oscars or the Emmys, though. Film & TV is an entirely different medium from music — music has always been around, but film/TV are mediums that were founded and birthed within the the context of capitalism and…

This is exactly what I said below. This is a decision that directly impacts folk/ethnic music, as opposed to "popular" music. Why do you think that only popular music is worth preserving?

The problem with these eliminations is that, without these categories, it's almost assured that whole ethnic & folk music genres would almost certainly go entirely unvalidated by the Grammy Awards for years and perhaps even decades, leading to a certain kind of invisibility from within the ranks of the mainstream…

I don't think so. That these shows included elements that non-black audiences found familiar and could relate to, I think, was actually a testament to their ability at capturing these characters with nuance, and their refusal to pander to "what a black audience wants." (And this tendency to pander, which a lot of the…

- I love Wanda Sykes.

Thanks for the book rec!

Well I don't think anyone is arguing with the fact that there needs to be more diversity among TV writers. (I also don't have a rundown of the racial make-up for the writing staffs of these shows, so I'm not trying to make any point about TV writers and race.)

Your tone is pretty defensive. And besides the point.

It's true that a lot of scripted programming took a hit after the rise of reality TV but I think one of the things this article made me think about was the general decline in programming (to say nothing of the decline in quality) of AA-oriented sitcoms as the 90s continued, prior to the boom of reality TV. In 1990 you…

Reading about all of these delusional Rupert Pupkins out there (especially the dad-of-three in Idaho who got laid off) made me feel really depressed.

Are we talking about Nutella?!

This.

Colorism is certainly an issue in India, where the "darker" you are, the lowest on the caste system it's presumed you belong. In lots of countries outside the US it's still really common to see advertisements shilling for skin-lightening products in ways that I think Americans would find absolutely brazen.

If I'd spent that much time in Alaska I might be into giving Arizona a try, too. #justsayin

It's not even that Coco rocks camel toe so often, it's that she outright embraces it. There's something fierce about that, and the extent to which she Gives No Damns.