Which itself is another pernicious lie: nerds don’t rape! Only muscular jocks commit rape! Read more

At least in the picture I saw he currently looks much more like he did at crime time than he did at trial time.

I am so tired Read more

Just adding: I think the way the NYT piece focuses on feminism as a newly discovered and barely surmountable obstacle to a wedding ceremony annoying, not the couple. You can continue to tell me to die in a fire in the comments. Read more

Some people are going to rage about this, but this is kind of a point that needs to be made. All this overheated anti-abortion rhetoric absolutely has the potential to inspire unbalanced nutjobs like Dear. The anti-choice movement needs to stop behaving like it doesn’t, and that it isn’t responsible for what happens. Read more

This was actually my concern when I read the story yesterday; that, in the hopes of doing away with the privilege attached to exclusive clubs, the actual benefits of gender specific clubs would be lost. It seems like there has to be some sort of middle ground, but I’m at a loss... Read more

The terror of single motherhood is a big reason I stayed in my emotionally abusive marriage. I felt inadequate to care for my daughter with a partner; how would I manage on my own? Read more

How generous of you to not have a problem when I have a glass once in awhile. Read more

For anyone interested, here’s a really great interview with Rebecca Kukla that explores a lot of the moral or political ramifications of the kind of informal policing of pregnant women’s actions this is meant to address. Read more

This is a wonderful piece. Thank you. I think this is an important question: Read more

This is terrible I read about it earlier and I feel like especially in this case it has a lot to do with race. Black women are constantly told we need to protect our black brothers and that is fine and dandy until a girl gets raped and then is told to protect her attacker because she shouldn’t want to put a black man… Read more

I did a report on reservations and libraries. Part of my research was looking at communications. A lot of tribes don’t have access to telephones or Internet. The infrastructure is bad on many. We also have issues with corruption and working with off reservation people. Read more

A lot of stuff on different reservation are not connected to outside stuff. We have to go through the FBI for law enforcement. It’s a big legal mess. I don't think people realize how bad it really is. Read more

Eh it was decent enough but I think the book is just far better suited to a series, especially one not aired on any of the big networks. It’ll almost certainly be easier to depict the stone-cold horrors of the fuckery that is Gilead, if nothing else. Read more

I think the larger issues that make “recoloring” black actors more problematic is that there are relatively none or few in these films to whom such does not happen, while there are plenty of white actors who aren’t “recolored” in the same films. There’s Quill and many other white characters in Guardians; there are… Read more

I learned today that a traditionally white character in Dr. Strange was cast as Chiwetel Ejiofor. I am really glad they didn’t do Tilda Swinton in yellow face-that character was such a racist trope anyways and perpetuates so much bullshit as it is. Read more

I admit I thought the same thing as I was reading, but then it occurred to me: Saldana (for example) was probably cast for her “exotic” (non-white) looks. So non-white = alien. Paint her green or blue to avoid the pesky “political” connotations of her actual skin color and voila! A sexy alien we can all be comfortable… Read more

It’s because a) we as black people are not human in any way shape or form palatable to people who are not of sub saharan descent, especially “white” people b) white people will complain and maybe not see your movie if they have to view us...or at least if they have seen us “around” a critical mass of movies and c) we… Read more

I find the arc of this narrative so interesting: not the particular case, but the integration of a psychoanalytic term into the public vernacular in a way it was never intended to be used. Read more

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