I had never read John Mayer’s article, just the pull quotes from articles about the Playboy article and ... yeesh.

It may be a difference without distinction but she’s likely saying she’s telling fiction and makes it widely known that it is fiction, but that the artists that she’s calling out are telling fiction but trying to pass it off as nonfiction. Therefore, she may not be doing, at least in her mind, the exact same thing,…

I tend to agree that people shouldn’t have to publicly divulge their charitable donations. In fact, there’s something a little weird about doing so, and can cast suspicion on people’s motivations for giving money in the first place. 

Your whiteness (or Cummins’s) has nothing to do with being Latinx or not. A majority of Latinx citizens of the USA self-identify as white. My guess is that is changing, but that’s as of the last Census. Being Latinx is an ethnicity, not a racial category (many ethnicities actually, as being Mexican is different than…

Agreed. I, too, am confused why she chose to write about the Mexican experience. I’m half hispanic (Nicaragua and El Salvador) and white (Irish). I remember in second grade asking my mom about the standardized tests that ask your race, the choices for me were White (non-hispanic) or Hispanic (non-white). Even at that…

As a non-American, I had to smile at your comment because it’s such an American way of viewing the issue. Whether from the left or the right, it always comes down to money. The article and a lot of the author’s critics make the point that she’s profiting from Mexicans’ pain, and your proposed remedy is that the…

My favorite theory is that a SAHM wrote this re: her CEO husband and she wanted to show him that everyone thinks the amount of work she does is FUCKING INSANE.

I’m surprised that in this day and age we are good with calling anyone their royal highness. Bowing and curtseying seems very 1820, not 2020. I’m okay with them having their ridiculous homes, and paying for them themselves. Just don’t ask me to call you anything other than your name.  

That wasn’t known at the time of the abdication. Wallis was rejected by English society for being a divorced woman. It’s a happy accident that their bigotry managed to keep a Nazi sympathizer out of any real royal power. 

I find the reactions to the Markle family so fascinating, because it splits people into two camps.

The money thing is 100% negotiable though. As the article points out, there are traditions, but the whole thing is basically whatever they feel like allowing. Having an HRH is not a guarantee you’ll get money, and vice versa.

Anybody? Royalty is a bullshit distinction the wealthy gave themselves back in the Dark Ages reinforced by further bullshit about being divinely ordained. There’s no reason a random person can’t claim the same divine right as it’s objectively unprovable.

I know it is important among the royals, but honestly, I have more than a few friendships and I don’t know the person’s name, a title would only add to the confusion.

I still say the most reasonable solution is to eat them all. 

Queen Elizabeth is on par with the NFL then.

Also, can you imagine how much of an insane shitfit liberals would be in if Bernie at all implied he wouldn’t support whoever the nominee ends up being?

You’ve said all that needs saying here.

Would it kill her to accept an ounce of blame for running a piss-poor campaign and condemning us all to 4-8 years of Trump? Fuck her and the corporate funded jet she flew in on. She’s was and is part of the problem and the best thing she can do to be part of the solution is to go get lost in the woods again.

“wait...are we the baddies?”

In the doc, you’re brutally honest on Sanders: “He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It’s all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.” That assessment still hold?