I am a completely white person. But I have a very Black sounding name. Especially in certain places I’ve lived everyone assumes, on the phone or by e-mail that I’m Black. So I’ve gotten both things. Sometimes I call a service line, get someone with a vaguely Black sounding voice, say my name, and they sort of light…

I’ve worked in the hospitality industry for a luxury establishment before, making just two dollars over the minimum wage. It is strange because a big part of the job is dressing, and looking and letting people imagine that you could also afford the things you’re selling. And by the way, guests/clients complain if…

A close relative of mine was denied a job years ago at American Apparel because she wore glasses.

The bizarre specificity of this line makes me more prone to believe this guy. Not that I don’t take Black people’s word for it when they point out racism. But it seems to me that whenever someone is fired or suspended or expelled for racist/sexist reasons there’s always some weird, cult-like language that is used to…

“Longtime lurker here but I think I’ve had enough.”

Damn.

I’m not scandalized by that. As I just stated in another post, I don’t actually want colleges to reject applicants who are only slated to go to trial, and who haven’t yet been found guilty of a crime. To me, what this demonstrates, is the inhuman callousness of the men who commit this kind of crime. Imagine, he knew…

Yeah. I don’t really want colleges rejecting applicants before they’ve gone to trial. That’s a bad policy. And for every violent rapist who looks like this kid there are several innocent men who look like “thugs” or who have mental health issues who are also waiting to go to trial.

I understand this critique. But honestly, we need both. We need to know that violent criminals DO look like fit, white, well dressed college men. Because anyone can be a violent criminal. Not many people are. But anyone can be.

Where is the mouth? Why isn’t anyone talking about this? I can’t tell what is the mouth!

But to go back to my other response to you, people like Judd, at least, are correcting an inaccuracy: That recurrent major depression is highly treatable. Mass advertising for antidepressants frequently misleads people about what the prognosis for these kinds of mental illnesses are.

Give me a break. That’s not what Pudding said. Pudding’s point is worth making: If you have major depression, whether or not your depression responds to drug therapy is a matter of luck. While we need to expand mental health services, and make them accessible to everyone we ALSO need to diversify scientific research…