Hmmm, interesting take on maleness and ingrained sacrificial tendencies required in men but she falls off the rails a bit when she suggests that feminism has has achieved dominance and control over society. Also she talks about society and culture like there is only one single universal society/culture which is…

Call it cultural imperialism if you will but I would like to see Australian style children's swimming classes exported across Asia. We have a lot of tourists from China (er both of them), Korea and various other Asian countries get into strife in the water here for not being able to swim, how often must it happen at…

Ummm, "minorities" are shaping the world? Do you have any idea what the vast majority of the world looks like and were they live? English isn't even the most spoken language in the world!

There is a perception that Americans don't know anything about the world outside America, I hope this isn't true.

It is not that simple, Santa Klaus is mythology stew who is far older than St Nicolas. He is a combination of Woden (Odin), father winter, the krampus, Ded Moroz and a large quantity of other related and mixed up myths, matters only got worse when the Christianisation of Europe began.

Rubbish, Jesus is white, he looks just like his father Gluteus Maximus. A centurion in the roman legions occupying Palestine.

Actually we are opening up to Asia, 12% of the population self identified as Asian in the last census and it should keep growing (we do have a tiny population mine you but proportionally that is not bad). We had a pretty shameful Asian panic moment in the late nineties that was promptly forgotten on September 11 2001.

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Ah k, maybe it is an outlier. Also I am not in America so things might be different here.

They acted like he had done the impossible... that he should be so lucky to even get an Asian woman let alone a white woman. Confused the shit out of me. Yes my friend is pretty but her bf is quite a good dude with confidence and intelligence and a good job (I am rather poor at rating male attractiveness but I think…

I empathize, I didn't realize how much of a big deal this was until I heard my friends boyfriends friends talking about the boyfriend like he had won the lottery (WW/AM).

You broke my heart. :( *sob* Clay....

To those that say they don't understand why coming out is a big deal and they don't want to know about it, try wearing a t-shirt that says "gay and proud" for a day.

You no like Salem?

Did you guys miss this? http://gawker.com/teaching-while… It is Prof Gibney's own words.

Please write a full account, we need more of these sorts of expositions.

The first and hardest step is actually telling him he did something wrong, you need to do this and it is scary because you don't know how he will react. Once you have done this and he responds in any way which is not a groveling apology then you should contact his superior about his behaviour. This isn't just about…

This is why many men won't say anything, even if they agree, you have just said we shouldn't step on your toes. This makes it far to difficult to know when to intervene, so intervention gets put into the too hard basket.

Hold on, I thought you said this place was an intolerable bastion of racism and you had to leave?

Well done Rihanna! What a wonderful thing to do.