I beg you all to watch Roots; I was ten years old when it came out and it felt like the entire country was watching together. I don't know if it was his first role but LeVar Burton was glorious as Kunta Kinte. I am unsure as to how well the miniseries has held up over the decades but it was a massive cultural event at…

Bachelor Party, one of his comedy movies from the 1980s.

That's too bad, X's first two albums are classic Sunset Strip punk. This reminds me of Moe Tucker becoming a Tea Partier.

We did this same wraps IN UTAH in the early 1990's. I am not sure how the clothing the girls at Wasatch High School were wearing could be perceived as showing more skin than this. But it is a very conservative area (Heber City).

Anecdata, but...I had a discussion with a Colombian friend of mine several years ago, and she said that America refers to North, South, and Central America, whereas the United States (of A) refers to the country. So I think it depends on where you come from. It does seem to be pretty ego-centric to claim America for…

It actually is kind of here or there, because the reason she can go topless in NYC (or anywhere in NY state) is because men can. And I reckon Instragram wouldn't consider a topless man nude in a way that would require removal.

Actually some people DO say America and mean just that, North, Central and South America.

Yes, Michael Jackson did have vitiligo. It was verified in the autopsy. It was also a key bit of testimony in the molestation trial. He had a pattern of vitiligo on his genitals that the alleged victim described.

Ummm. Breasts are functional. People breastfeed their children in public. Men can go shirtless. They have nipples too.

I'm confused as to why Jezebel seems to be making fun of this. IMO, the insane sexualization of breasts (esp. in America) should be a bigger feminist issue. breasts are NOT sexual organs, and female breast ≠ penis (I've heard many people attempt to make this false equivalence). I honestly don't see the big deal if a…

Michael said in his Oprah interview that he had vitiligo. His autopsy said he had it. His dermatologist said he had it. There are photos of him out there starting from the age of 18 or so that show patches of light skin on his wrists, hands, and neck. He wore dark makeup to cover it through the Thriller era. When it…

What's worse is that I could see them doing a two-shot challenge, wherein she is made to look white for one shoot and black for another. And then Tyra can talk about how she doesn't fit in either.

Why would being Canadian disqualify her from being America's Next Top Model. Is Canada not a part of North America? The show is not United States Next Top Model.

Well, Toronto IS in America...

Even when you are smoking hot, toplessness (male or female) can look pretty gauche especially in an urban setting. However, I sincerely hope that no matter how awkward it always looks people can just fucking go topless when they want. People have grown to fear and revere the boob to an outrageous level. You can barely…

Well, there are (gasp!) government programs in some major cities to provide internet to low-income families with school age children, for just this kind of reason. I'm not so sure about poor children in rural areas, though.

The point is that sexualized content should be the issue, not tasteful nudity.

This is the dumbest argument, and it's not supported by any evidence. Money-making opportunities aside, arguing that STEM degrees are the only degrees worth pursuing fails to respect the value of humanities and arts in society. We devalue art, literature, social studies, history, etc. at our own peril.

This is silly. Lots of jobs outside of STEM fields require bachelors degrees, and having a degree in something more relevant to the job than a STEM field is probably going to be an advantage.

Factual knowledge is power. White tigers do in fact occur naturally, albeit rarely. A lot of the health risks you describe are an outcome of trying to breed the white allele into Siberian tigers. The breeding programs that use just Bengal tigers have been a little more successful.