God, I spent so many hours as a teenager, lying on my bed and staring at the ceiling with Fiona Apple blasting. Love her.

I also think you sometimes see, with people who are trying to be “white allies,” that maybe they actually *do* do some things (let’s say, they do all of them once), and then find, whoops, racism hasn’t been solved yet! You can work and work and work and work at this, and it can feel like it’s for nothing, because it’s…

Your interpretation is kinder than mine. I assume that when someone asks this question they have no interest in the answer. They’ve already gotten enough white ally cultural cool points from having “started the conversation” even if they don’t do anything beyond that, which they won’t.

I sometimes wonder if people don’t ask that question to get past on the bead for being special. It’s incredibly pretentious and only continues to maintain a dominant/subordinate relationship between white and POC. People know what to do. They just want praise for it.

I’m not disagreeing with any of this but I imagine that increased numbers of black teachers might have a positive impact on white teachers in the same schools, too. Like white teachers might think a little more carefully about the way they treat black students if they have to justify those decisions to black…

If someone tells you they’re a writer and they’re living in Brooklyn, immediately ask them to list five things they’ve written that have been published/performed/optioned etc. Demand receipts. I don’t care if it’s rude. --signed, an actual writer in Brooklyn

I once lived in New York and now live in Trumplandia. Most days I consider this a regrettable state of affairs, but today is not one of them.

Translation: He’s had lots of STDs.

That’s because the real purpose of most non-profits is to offer a chance for white people to play ‘white savior’ roles.

Also, now that I have a rant in me. I witnessed groups deliberately change their study’s objectives in order to be seen as effective to funding agencies (non-profits in these cases). Papers would be published saying how the study was effective (no mention of drawing the target around the shot). People would then use…

Yup. I’ve often though that nonprofits are like welfare for the college educated children of the upper middle class, with exceptions (i.e., the author).

"You know Tina, the Devil takes your soul every time you orgasm? That is why your mother is still a pure woman today!" (I'm just guessing based on the image, I have to wait until I am done with work to be sure.)

I seized on that, too. Semi-popular? Them's fighting words around these here parts.

You know, if I was trying to prove that I hadn't sexually assaulted someone by leaning into my consensual bdsm cred, I wouldn't use "my relationship was like a mild 50 Shades of Gray" as some sort of proof that this relationship was super-duper consensual. I would distance myself from that book so freaking hard.

I have been looking online for porn since I was 13 years old. Never once have I accidentally clicked on a link that sent me to pictures and videos of child pornography. Not even when I was drunk.

"We have prisons now filled with guys my age. Sixty-year-old white men in prison who've never harmed anybody,

I can tell you there's a lot of trans women watching these developments with an avid interest. Between this and 3D printed organs (seriously, it's a thing) the future of medicine in general but also of trans folks' ability to transition is really looking amazing.

As I've said in many other posts about the lousiness of present-day air travel, this is what happens when you democratize the skies. Want glamour and a hint of comfort? Charge more/pay more. Airlines shouldn't be the Greyhound of the air, but that's what they've become. We as a nation depend on jetliners to do what…

Bag fees are just airlines making up for consumers chasing cheap airfares, plain and simple.