For a good time, try doing a Google Image search for “Gwen Stefani cultural appropriation”. I mostly remembered the bindis and the harajuku girls, but gosh, she digs in HARD on latinx culture, hints at some black hairstyles, does a little Native American dress-up just for fun... Like, spin the globe, put your finger…

Yeah I was the same way but for Shirley Manson and Garbage. Shirley Manson is all about using her voice to speak up for equality. They never got as big as No Doubt or Gwen but they all seem to be cool people. 

I used to be a HUGE Gwenabee from the first album - I wrote for AOL newsletters and No Doubt was my first concert, and people in school called me No Doubt Boy - because I’d only wear ND shirts.

Then Rocksteady came out - in which they sold out their unique/co-opted ska sound for more mainstream likability- fine ok.…

Given Tesla’s quality control issues, I’m assuming this was merely an opportunity for Musk to disappoint two women at once.

She’s always been aggressively vanilla. She was just great at co-opting other subcultures’ styles and that’s about it. She got wayyyy too much cred for being cool and edgy and punk because of the way she looked, and people assumed she was basically a riot grrl, but anytime she opened her mouth to do anything besides…

Ahem...

I saw Mammoth Pole Bean open for Pantera. 

This is the winning comment, I believe.

The only thing as powerful than Cate Blanchett is a chainsaw

I like her kids’ names; they fit with the surname Upton. Except Roman; that one sounds like “roamin’ uptown”.

‘There is nothing, Lady Galadriel’, said Gimli, bowing low and stammering. ‘Nothing, unless it might be - unless it is permitted to ask, nay, to name a single strand of your hair, which surpasses the gold of the earth as the stars surpass the gems of the mine. I do not ask for such a gift. But you commanded me to…

I feel like it was pretty clear that Ellen’s question was rhetorical...

I 100% agree. It’s one of those things where we’ve learned that racism is bad, and therefor racist people are bad, and we’re not bad, or at least we don’t think we are, ergo, we can’t be racist. If we make a racist assumption, or happen to stumble upon some part of ourselves with racist perceptions, well, surely that…

So true. The correct approach isn’t to say “I’m not,” but to ask “Am I?” Only by continuing to ask that question can someone uncover the many ways in which “they are,” which is a critical first step on the road to changing bigoted attitudes.

I’m not racist and i never have been but i need to speak up about this because just not being racist isn’t enough.

Also? Retaliation from his employer and coworkers ain’t happening right now:  run, girl, run!

Which makes him the Pretender Dauphinissimo.

I don’t care about his wife leaving him. His history of abuse on the police force is long and storied. She is not the hero for leaving him.

The only set of rules from this era that really works well with everyone’s facial proportions is the one about shaping one’s eyebrows, using a narrow pencil as a measuring tool.

Yes exactly. I feel like when white women start to say “my fellow white woman” its centering them at the conversation. I’ve also seen tweets along the lines of “I am so embarrassed to be a white woman.” These are weird and unhelpful things to say because its not about us. Its about systemic racism and the role we play…