I pegged nanny—and that is how implicit bias works folks! If you do it, own up to it and hope it helps you be better in the future.

What nanny? The woman is his wife: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4300896/BBC-expert-s-live-interview-gatecrashed-children.html

Like you said, you’re not American.

Hello. I’m not American. Can someone tell me why America thought it was a good idea to make a functionally illiterate man with severe personality disorders the President of the United States of America?

He’s not, but you actually could argue that about Tina! The character was originally a boy named Daniel in the (fortunately unaired) test pilot. He read as too creepy, so they tried making him a girl, and now the traits that had seemed creepy in a boy were funny instead!

Nah. Some damn peace and quiet around here is the best gift you can give a dad on any other day of the year, but Father’s Day is for people who have/love fathers to celebrate them. A father who wants to spend Father’s Day away from his family is a dingus.

Pretty surprised that “some god damn peace and quiet for once” doesn’t top this list.

I once heard David Sedaris say that someone he met at a signing or party or something remarked that he was so nice - much nicer than s/he thought he would be. He responded: “Oh, no, no, no. I’m just very two-faced!”

I like the basic idea here, but the truth is that a lot of your success in life depends on how people see you. I lost the best job I ever had because my boss thought I lacked energy and bemoaned my introverted qualities. I can’t afford to let my true self out in my public life because people in my working life haven’t…

When it comes to wrong Jeopardy answers, nothing tops this.

i can understand how Shearer might not remember a joke from 15 years ago, but it is a funny joke.

That or a reference to the show he’s been working on for 26 years flew right over his head and he acted like a prick about it

Of course, that was a Simpsons joke that he was “owning.”

I would have expected Shearer to appreciate that joke, or maybe he didn’t like that it was a Phil Hartman line?

I studied abroad in Nepal in the mid-90's, through an anthropology program. Before participating, we were required to take a course on Nepali culture that featured Nepali voices. (It is an amazingly diverse region). We were warned against trying to impose Western ideas and told to listen, not lecture. It was an…

I don't know that a white, Western woman denouncing cultural relativism is all that helpful (or, particularly insightful, seeing as how if white, Western people had their way, the concept of cultural relativism wouldn't even exist). The point is, we don't get to decide what other cultures should do, seeing as how we…

I'm not defending particular traditions, nor criticizing them. I'm just saying who are we to criticize any other culture? What are we going to do, sit back and tsk the horrible evil people who follow their own traditions? Or perhaps send in some UN 'human rights' workers to put an end to something we shouldn't even…

tl;dr - other cultures are backwards, traditions are stupid and irrational, but hopefully they can give them up to be just like us enlightened westerners