Exactly this. Dance teams and child pageants are huge in this country. So, it’s OK to sexualize children, just not to make a film about it?

How can we forget Reagan using John Mellancamp’s “Pink Houses”? I was a pre-teen and I still knew that song did not paint America in a good light.

When it reopened the following March, costumers new and old...

You know those women aren’t carrying a checkbook to the fundraiser in their Judith Leiber mini audieres. The charity would follow up with the bidders (more likely, the bidders’ assistant or accountant) to settle the account and arrange details.

It’s definitely an interesting question. Certainly, they will be viewed with mistrust, and for good reason. But it does pose the question: Can ethnic studies be researched effectively by those who aren’t of that ethnicity? I would hope that they can, if the researcher is willing to examine their motives and biases…

Academics don’t really question each other on their credentials after a certain point. It really only took her convincing a few people early in her career. Once she gave a few good talks and published a few good papers, she started gaining steam in her career. At that point, it would have been rude to question her…

I can guarantee you that if she were faculty on my campus, I’d be pushing hard for her to be fired. Academic and grant-related fraud is taken very seriously. (Much more seriously than harassment or discrimination, but that’s another story.)

I work in higher ed HR. I love to point to shit like this when the faculty says, “We can’t possibly do background checks on people! How insulting! We know who faculty in our field are.”

Apparently, they don’t. 

We have to come to terms with the fact that our heroes (historical and modern day) are people. People have flaws. People can be inspirational and awful at the same time. We’d all be a lot better off if we learned to embrace that.

Not getting a boner isn’t a life threatening condition either, Ted, but I don’t see you running around trying to ban Viagra.

Can we stop body shaming Anderson Cooper? He had a semi-nude photo published by a ‘friend’ without his consent and y’all are like “Ewwwww...he’s too pale! Uncooked chicken!!” First, what a violation of trust. Second, if Anderson had bad acne or scars, would you get grossed out by that too? Stop commenting on peoples’…

I call it “potato chips for the brain”. It’s not filling or good for you, but it’s tasty and comforting.

You neglected to mention that “Burn Notice” gave us a necessary weekly TV helping of the genius that is Bruce Campbell, which I missed since the demise of “Xena” and “Jack of All Trades”.

If Fox was willing to look the other way when a powerful employee commits blatant sexual harassment, imagine what they will do to the HR employee who pressures them to discipline him. If you think proving termination due to harassment is difficult, try proving you were fired for being a whistleblower.

My point is that corporate leadership should be the ones figuring out how to deal with this instead of leaving any front-line employees to step up when they shouldn’t have to. If that means having an extra security guard or loss prevention officer on every shift to act as the Mask Police, they should suck up the cost…

Yeah, between the two of them, they are paying less for the fine than they did in the actual crime? WTF? They should be forced to set up at least a $2 million scholarship fund for students of color whose Mommies and Daddies don’t have the money to buy their way into college

Neither is the store manager, really; no one signed up to be the Mask Police, especially when it could get you assaulted. Corporate leadership should put a “how to deal with a non-mask wearer” protocol in place that does not involve putting workers in jeopardy. I’m not quite sure how to do that, with all the asshats…

I fully and completely support anyone addressing racism and discrimination in the workplace. These issues should have been addressed and corrected by the upper management. It is reprehensible that they were not. 

I consistently see the “...and HR did nothing!” issue. HR can only do something if top management lets…

So much commonality in violence against women and violence against protestors:

“You should believe me when I tell you I’m a nice guy and won’t hurt you.” = “You should believe me when I tell you I’m a cop and won’t hurt you.”

A) I don’t know you. You could be anyone.
B) Never trust anyone who says “Trust me; it’s OK.”

OMG. That was Frances McDormand! I’m as bad as the writers of this article!

But that’s how good Frances was...she was the role.