Good job, you just called Coates a paid puppet and took away all creative and intellectual agency away from him.

Even as satire though, I’m not cool with it. Because as satire the premise is “Hey I’m on your side! I’m allowed to write this ‘satiric piece’ because I really, truly get Chinese food on like a deep level. I mean I’m not like those other clueless white guys. In fact, I know more about Chinese food than actual Chinese…

So everyone who is excusing Trillin’s poem is saying that it’s satire and he’s making fun of white people who can’t bother to differentiate between different kinds of Chinese food?

Yes! But also, it’s that “Hey I’m one of the few white guys who really gets it so validate me and congratulate me!” attitude that pisses me off. And the fact that so many Asian Americans are reacting negatively proves the lack of foresight and the amount of white cultural insulation that surrounds The New Yorker for…

I understood her comment to be more along the lines of: women are stereotyped no matter what in Hollywood. If you’re traditionally attractive, you get offered the lightweight roles where looks are more important than substance. If you’re not traditionally attractive, you’re not considered for those roles where you are…

My friend has worked closely with her and says she is a wonderful person, in fact really goofy and down to earth, not at all high maintenance. It’s strange reading about these accounts where people she she is an asshole. Then again, haven’t we all been assholes at some point in our lives?

Maybe that twinge is intentional, you know? Maybe we can’t divest the system of white supremacy unless white people reckon with the history of being white, which will necessarily and undoubtedly be uncomfortable. I think for a lot of progressive & liberal white people, it’s uncomfortable to think about their skin…

This bullshit after a French POLITICIAN just today compared Muslim women who wear the hijab to “negros who supported slavery.” http://www.bbc.com/news/world-eur…

Thank you for sharing this. I was in fact planning on applying to MFA programs this year. Now I am having second thoughts... Do you know if all MFA programs are this awful?

I wanted to apply to Iowa for fiction and after reading this article and some of the comments, I am having second thoughts. Is it worth it, in your opinion? Should I just apply to other MFA programs or do they all have this same behavior?

Anti-blackness is very real in Asian communities.

I’m a little confused, why are all the commenters acting as though this fundraiser is an entirely selfless act that will not benefit Clinton in any way whatsoever?

Yes I can understand not wanting to just take care of yourself, it’s sexy and intimate when your partner wants to make you come.

A lot of guys don’t realize women cannot have vaginal orgasms. Maybe you could say one time, “I never told you this, but I’m actually not able to orgasm from just penetration, could you go down on me, etc.” Or when you are having sex, you could try touching your clitoris. I have realized I need to take my orgasms into…

May I suggest “For Harriet” and also “Reappropriate.”

Yeah, I think a better word would have been “encourage” or “perpetuate.”

I’m so glad you posted this! I’m in a very similar position as you actually :) Left academia a few months ago without completing the PhD and have been starting fiction writing (short stories) again, after a very long break. Except I haven’t written a novel - I am so impressed you completed one during your Phd, bravo!

It’s okay to quit and it doesn’t make you a quitter. I decided to leave academia a few months ago. I had only seriously done about 3 years of a PhD and I had this epiphany that that was the easy part, that the long stretch ahead of me would only be more deadlines, more stress, more competition for funding, more…

Good point. However, as an Asian-American, it still annoyed me that the only Asian on the show has been an intern from China who can’t speak English. Really, are there more foreign Asian interns than Asian American interns in the Silicon Valley? I find that hard to believe. Like the actual location of the Bay and the…

My fantasy of a textbook from the future (let’s say the year 3000):