It’s like Ender’s Game, but for cats stuck in trees.

If I’m wrong, I’m not really lying—just mistaken, maybe even ignorant. I’ve seen her referred to as both Puerto Rican and African American. Seriously, I wasn’t trying to start shit, just wondered how racist he is. Because he is complicated. He did a movie that featured Hmong people as both heroes and villains, he…

ever heard of irony? like, i don’t actually think i’m a cunt but i get called one a lot for expressing feminist sentiments, so i changed my handle on kinja to embrace the word and take the power away from those who would use it against me. see how that works? irony—it’s wholesome fun!

and @ throttlehappy I think it also depends whether or not you’re in the public eye. I’m, in very simple terms, half white and half black and I identify as mixed. (Which is a weird culture all to itself because I don’t really “fit” in either world).

I’d say that the meaning of the word racism has evolved. Racism used to mean lynchings and cross burnings, or unambiguous hate speech. Those kinds of blatantly racist, violent acts and words are the tip of the iceberg. They are the most obvious manifestation of the underlying, deeply entrenched racism that people are…

Her biological father was black, and I’ll bet that she’s been considered black a lot more often than she’s been considered German. Like, nobody ever thinks of Obama as white, right?

Yeah I think it’s all a very interesting thing, I kind of knew where you were coming from when you said how you “identify” I just think it sounds bizarre (not incorrect). I agree that some people can treat you as a certain race or culture, but at the same time I think people treat you as you present yourself meaning I…

Maybe we should stop asking really old people what they think about the “modern” world.

If that makes me on the opposite team of Clint, then yes, mission accomplished.

Not really no. Guess you’re team Clint here, eh?

I would expect that if you asked ten people who use the term “pussy” on a regular basis, most of the time not a single one could tell you what the word pusillanimous means.

Setting aside the fact that your dictionary link does not provide “pussy” as an abbreviation of “pusillanimous,” is that the colloquial understanding of this word? Or does the unbelievably vast majority of the population understand this word to be a reference to a woman’s genitals (unless in a limited context…

There are about a million things to unpack in this interview, BUT SERIOUSLY can pussy stop being an insult?!?!

So true. He had balls to do that should mean he approached gingerly at best. I found his use of pussy the most offensive and backward thing he said.

We should totally swap “balls” for “pussy” when talking about weakness. It’s more scientifically correct.

He’s reminiscing for a time when gas was cheap, everyone knew their places and stayed there, and a guy like him could say anything he wants with no repercussions at all.

Living in Japan, I can’t tell you the number of white men I’ve met who are dating or married to Japanese women and who are also deeply, deeply racist and sexist. I don’t think it’s a generational thing. When I ask people like this why they don’t see the disconnect between their views and the fact that they are a)…

Can we stop using “pussy” as a word to mean weak though? My vagina has birthed three god damn kids.