There needs to be more of this line of discussion. The Beautiful Earth Mother trope is so ingrained, I think many men and women think the negatives of pregnancy are "cute" discomforts. And for some, they are.

The type of Brits you're talking about are the ones that go to Amsterdam/Prague/Corfu/Berlin/Budapest, with the the specific goal of being drunk and obnoxious assholes. Usually teen or twenty-something white males (though females are not unusual either) with low intellect/common sense/cultural awareness/all of the…

Wait. Where is she wearing a Kappa t? Or is this just a general announcement?

THANK YOU. I am so sick of parents feeling guilty about ANYTHING. It's called "life" and everyone should just do the best they can. If you're not doing your best, then sure - feel guilty about that, but otherwise, people need to just... get on with it.

*giant hugs* If hubs and I reproduce, our kid is going to have all the kink. He keeps his hair short, but two years into our relationship I saw a baby picture of him. HE IS CURLY! When I look closer at him, if he waits too long for a hair cut, you can see the coils starting to form at the nape of his neck.

I rarely comment since the transition, but you calling troll on black people that have had strangers touching their hair was enough to call me out of my electronic cave.

I don't actually expect people to know all of that in the moment, but if the girls were adamant about you (or anyone) not touching their hair, that means there is a reason for the strong reaction. All I want is respect. Curiosity doesn't automatically mean I find you disrespectful. Not at all. But I also should not be…

Do you have even the slightest shred of comprehension of the vastness of varied experience that you, in your tiny, infinitesimal, utterly insignificant worldview, have neither seen nor heard of? I can't even begin to fathom the arrogance required for a person to declare that their lack of knowledge on a subject stands…

See, no. You already stated that you didn't understand the history, so that tells me all that I need to know tbh. If a person doesn't want you touching them, it's simple: don't. Regardless of how you feel about it. It's not really up to you. And Black hair and the word "nappy" has a very long, depressing, and…

We don't make exhibits of normal things, so I would say that this is making natural hair seem "exhotic." If anything shows that black hair is normal, I would say it's advertisements. I've noticed that many ads recently feature black women and girls with afros. A great way of normalizing something is not to draw…

yep, everyone else talking about their experiences is just making it up, because YOU have never witnessed it. seems legit.

of course the person who unironically attempts to point out it happening to them is a red-head.

I just....this isn't really the point. I've been a non-Asian in Japan and yeah people get curious about you, but sometimes they have never met someone like you in person. With this we have black people, whose families have been in the United States sometimes for hundreds of years, and yet people still react to them…

This just sounds like way for white people to imagine they're touching black people on the auction block. Yeah. I just said that.

I am not a lawyer but ... it feels like the prosecutor's office really dropped the ball here.
The nature of the services to be rendered was in dispute. If I hire caterers and I assume that "After event clean up" is included in their fee and the caterers are all "Nope! Sucka!" and try to run off with the money I paid…

Yes, she does have a right to be angry. But the "angry black woman" stereotype is designed as a weapon to deem outspoken black women as irrational and shame them into silence.

Nope, white men in power are rarely called "aggressive". People would have said "He stood up for himself". It's the tightrope that women and black folks have to walk all the time: Cheney says "Fuck you" in Congress, and says he's proud he said it...and he's still celebrated; let a woman do that, and she's…

It wasn't even that so much as the incredibly bizarre expectation that her rudeness was going to be met with quiet acquiescence. What an idiotic and self-entitled presumption.

"assertive" is only twisted to be negative regarding women. fuck that shit. she was assertive, yes. as in standing up for herself and not submitting to some asshole who thought she could intimidate her.

How privileged do you have to be to interrupt somebody during a speaking engagement, THEN @codepink to turn around to tell Michelle how SHE was supposed to react?