The “Human Handbook,” huh? Never heard of it. Who wrote that one?

And I hope you will not just say “humans,” because well, that would just be naive and totally wrong, wouldn’t it?

So, you mean to say you are asking a rhetorical question?

White people already won, though. You care to claim your prize, or deny that fact?

Oh, horseshit. A ticket to fucking Baloneyville is what that is. Stop telling people how to “be good.” You are just basking in your own self-righteousness when you do it.

Leave the group. It’s all about how you identify, right?

Yes, I’m being sarcastic. It is not about how you get “lumped in.” There are far more important issues than if people think you’re racist.

Or maybe not. Maybe their male friends agree with them, and the ones they need to talk to are other males, who aren’t their friends. Or women who don’t already know the shit.

Males are not some homogeneous clump of people, and neither are white people.

Yes, you should have.

But... ya didn’t, did ya?

You are participating in social media right now. Oops.

When somebody provides you with information, you know it, and it is yours to share. You cannot tell it from his point of view or what have you, but you can tell it. This is called “reporting.”

You are welcome to do it by being a human being. Have at it. Just don’t exclude him by making it “your” story.

Nothing “solves” it. It is a small part of broader discourse surrounding the topic. Just like this article is. What has this article “solved?”

Thank you! Not that I need your permission to do the right thing (and talk about it or not, as I see fit), but I’m glad that somebody gets it.

And if you are trying to be a little too wily with your rhetoric, and your little MFA irony ploy backfires, it’s kinda your fault. MFA writers should know that it’s not just about their own voices. Otherwise, they probably missed something vital in all those fully-funded classes.

Rhetorically, it makes no sense to say “I don’t know how to ____” in public discourse, and not respect somebody to respond with some opinion related to that statement. That’s how people communicate.

Nah, that was somebody else’s facebook status. I get it, there is something inside you that makes you incapable of telling us apart, but it wasn’t mine.