My mom kept her last name and so she and I have different last names (I got my dad’s.) Growing up, it was never a big deal for me or my siblings. So if you are worried it will be a big deal for your kids if you and they have different last names, it won’t.

I think I have come up with an answer and it has to do with privilege and power. Within the constructs of race and gender, some constructs are privileged (whiteness, maleness, etc.) - this lady abused the privilege of whiteness in order to gain access to to black space. Perhaps she does feel like she is more black…

Wow. But if she’s saying she’s out, dissecting her emails and claiming she’s really in seems pretty shaming to me.

I’m pro-porn. I watch porn. I’m anti women being exploited. I’m anti women be manipulated/pressured/forced into doing things with their bodies they don’t want to do. It bums me out that as someone who watches porn, and who enjoys rough porn, I’m in anyway complicit in exploitation. That’s a Jezebel article I’d like to…

I watched the film yesterday, and just read this article and I’m really not sure what your point is? Why is it so important to figure out if one woman is part of the industry still, especially if she clearly doesn’t want to be part of it?

I’m trying to figure that out. I think it must be the idea of lying - which is different than “passing”. Somehow.

She has an interesting and legitimate story to tell, but if she is working with black advocacy groups pretending that she has had a shared cultural experience with them, that is a lie.

Black Americans: Internalized racism, oppression, violence from the police, poverty, colorism, slavery descendants...etc

I wish people would stop comparing being transgender to this. Gender is a socially constructed arbitrary concept. Race is not!

Sure. I think so.

It’s interesting to me that people who easily see gender as a construct see race as somehow essentialist. Race is also a construct; the idea of race as we perceive it (i.e. related to a geographic genetic heritage) is pretty recent, and some have argued, came about to justify European colonialism/slave trade.

so good at villains, because who doesn’t want all the unicorns...[and the iron throne]

Secretariat could (and most likely would) pass it on to his daughters - which is why his daughters & their daughters show up in the pedigree of so many race horses.

I imagine that’s it. She faked a pregnancy, then (poorly) faked an abduction before her faked c-section appointment.

Outlander is the first TV show I’ve ever seen that has erotiized the female gaze so effectively and that has totally reversed so many historical romance tropes. If there are other TV shows that are doing this an aren't being discussed, please let me know!

I’m very sorry for what happened to you. Do you think it is possible they can stop? I feel very uncomfortable saying we should lock someone up now for something they did when they were 14. I wonder if, instead the adults pretending it didn’t happen, your godmother’s son had gotten therapy, he might not have later…

The only story I know definitely involves an underage girl (my best friend in high school) and a prominent, married-at-the time metal band dude in 1990. She was 14, and definitely lied about her age. She said he had a big dick, which the world now knows is true. I remember thinking she was so lucky at the time - now I…

Here’s a good article about how it could work.

What about Best Airports?

Atlanta is fine except that last terminal is always hot as hell.