I was just about to say I think Patina Miller would be marvelous at Josephine Baker!
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I'm not a Rihanna fan. I think she's more talented at self-promotion than music. I don't dislike her or want bad things to happen to her. In fact, given that she is a domestic violence survivor who is navigating a lot of complex mixed societal messages about relationships, violence, sexuality, race and gender, I…
Oh, lord no. Watch "The Americans". Matthew Rhys, come on...
Revenge of the Nerds is a classic, at least to olds like me. If you watched Van Wilder, there's little reason not to watch ROTN; it's not like the racial or gender politics embodied by Ryan Reynolds and Kal Penn are advanced over the ones professed by Anthony Edwards and Robert Carradine. Although Ryan Reynolds is…
Why am I answering this? Sigh...it's because eloquent wordsmiths dubbed a lady's nethers a "pie" or "hairpie" (Jesus, have you never seen "Revenge of the Nerds" at least?). So now...cream + pie. Sheesh, I'm going to the corner now to think about my life and how it took this unexpected turn.
Why is this in the greys?
Rashida Jones considers herself multi-racial, and it is absolutely her right to self-identify as she chooses. But Halle Berry also has one white parent and identifies as black, and she has very concrete reasons for doing so. This is a very complex issue, and multiracial people differ on how they feel about it. Some…
Simply put, they mean, "You don't act like my stereotypical idea of what black people are like". Just like when Jez writers talk about Miley Cyrus, they mean "She acts just like her stereotypical idea of what black people are like". So much so, she even described what she wanted for her new track and video as somethi…
I demand that this be brought to fruition immediately. And I will share my and my friends slow-twerk performance of Depeche Mode's "Everything Counts". In large amounts.
I only wear makeup when I go out, or when I'm starting a new job. I know the last one is weird, but it's just a quirk I have. I'll keep it up the first week or two, then once I've established a semblance of comfort, it stops. And the work makeup only consists of an all-in-one foundation/powder/concealer/sunscreen,…
Tom Hiddleston is glorious, and as my late grandmother would say, I would sop him up with a biscuit. Chris Hemsworth is...not bad to look at. That's all I got.
Almost any actor will tell you, unless they are a complete amateur, that playing someone like yourself is far more difficult than playing a character worlds away from your own experience. It's a cliche, but as a former professional actor, I can say that most to us are drawn to this profession by a love of imaginative…
The leadership of the most populous city in the country, the home of the United Nations headquarters, Wall Street, one of three command centers for international commerce (London and Tokyo are the others) and a hub of international diplomacy, is hardly a "local issue". The mayor of New York City will have national…
As stated by others, you are incorrect. Her biological sex is male, her gender identity is female. She isn't "confused"; her physical body and her gender identity do not match. She has asked to be referred to using female pronouns, and that should be respected. She doesn't have to surgically transition until and…
Stop with the "soccer moms". This is New York City, and de Blasio is an extremely liberal former public advocate in Brooklyn in an open marriage to a black out lesbian who considers herself more radical than even progressive (and apparently still a lesbian. She's certainly never declared she no longer saw herself…
As I said earlier, if you know nothing about Quinn or McCray except Dowd's distortions, I could see how you might find that plausible. But if you think a black woman who was an out lesbian and now lives as a bisexual in an open marriage to a white liberal who has been the public advocate in Brooklyn for a number of…
I've read this post, the essay by Chauncey De Vega (of We Are Respectable Negroes) that prompted it, and much other work on the relationship of white male privilege to this phenomena. That doesn't negate my point, but only bolsters it. There are important conversations to be had about the correlation of white…
It's not difficult to learn where McCray stands on the issues, and she's about as far from an evangelical touting the blessings of heterosexual marriage as you can get. She's never hidden her past, nor, to my knowledge, made any claims about a "change" in orientation. She simply fell in love with a man.
I don't know how familiar you are with Christine Quinn, but McCray was calling her out on POLICY, not her orientation, and certainly not criticizing Quinn's family. She was pointing out that the upper middle-class, Bloomberg-redux that is Christine Quinn is not speaking to issues of working and middle class parents…
I hope this isn't derailing (since you did ask) or trolling, and it in no way negates the important discussion about the mix of privilege and alienation that results in the majority of mass shooters being young white males. But I think we do ourselves no favors by telling ourselves that "women aren't school shooters"…