I work in academia, and we go through so much mandatory training for diversity - like every 6-12 months - that it shocks me that someone complete the training and think this costume was cute/funny/thoughtful/appropriate in any way.
I guess I would have gone for the symbolic thing, wear all black except white coat. Add a mustache so it’s obvious you’re a “man” and carry the book around.
If they’re not a standard household item (electric ones, not ones you heat on a hob. It’s 2016 damn it) then what do you use to make instant coffee, hot chocolate, cup noodles, cup soup or fill a hot water bottle?
The shit of that was, Whoopi wrote the jokes and they made the decision together for him to do blackface. From what I remember, in those days Friar Club was nasty, filthy, worst jokes ever and NOT TELEVISED. I think neither of them expected word of her induction(because that’s what it was) to get out.
... I really hope this doesn’t turn into a ‘Post Your Favorite Shocking Blackface pics!’ free-for-all because really, this story is dispiriting and dehumanizing enough without having this shit pop up, too.
How do you read an autobiography about race and racial bias and be so moved by it you decide to be completely racist???
Oh. My. God.
As an Old, I can entertain you with stories. Here’s a shitty one from the eearly 90's before Friar’s Roasts became a public thing. Ted Danson still “cheers” famous was going out with Whoopi Goldberg. He did a bit at the Friar’s lunch about them smoking pot and him telling her; “Hey Whoop; don’t Ni$$&r lip it!” Shit,…
I find it telling that the commenters who are the staunchest defenders of this blackface costume are all crying that “He has the right to wear the costume he wants! PC police, PC Police!” The law professor wearing blackface was a woman, but they dove right down to the comments to defend the racism itself, not the…
Hey, you know how the only possible positive spin to idiot college kids in blackface is “they’re idiot kids whose ignorance and immaturity is going to embarrass the shit out of them later in life”? That doesn’t apply here. Law professors don’t get to plead idiocy. Just... why?
Tea Kettle... Tea kettle?
Also, she already survived a brain tumor. Hadn’t she already “hacked it” enough for a lifetime?
I’m exploring some solar powered lighting to flank the happy-trail. If everyone has to see my gut, may as well try to make it classy.
Would it kill them to actually make clothes for people with long torsos? Feels like standard sizing means I’m wearing either a belly shirt or a dress.
As a “larger in some ways” dude, I can tell you that most retailers do not stock men’s clothing that way—at least, men’s clothing for the office. Sure, there are 3XL sweatshirts in the sportsball section, but dress shirts? Go to the big and tall section, hoss.
The forced abortion thing, to me, is particularly cruel, in a particularly cruel cult. Some of these women were married and wanted their children. And the cult responded by separating married couples and forcing abortion on these women.
Most likely it’s a passive aggressive warning masquerading as polite.
Your words reveal more about you than they do about anything else, and it’s not pretty.