We are overwhelmed by sexual images in commercials, art, and pornography, and you might think that the increasing number of images would indicate that we’re moving away from puritanism and towards more positive attitudes towards sex. But in reality, the great mass of those images in all three realms tell us one thing: ‘Sex feels [...]
What’s wrong, you coward? Too intimidated by a real woman to get it up? Or too much of an ass to even get an adult to look at you twice?
Well, guess what? Fifteen-year-old girls don’t want you either, you impotent jackass! She beat the shit out of you, didn’t she? And maybe you escaped her, [...]
That should teach me to count on a bureaucracy. I’m supposed to get my tax return today. It’s my money and I desperately need it. But here it is, 1037 and no monies. My paycheck is there, telling me that at least one accepted time for direct deposit has passed, but that’s barely enough to [...]
When I am told about our national heritage or about “civilization,” I am shown that people of my color made it what it is.
This. From White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh.
Don’t get white privilege? You’re not alone.
I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not [...]
I’m going to address this to all of you, even though not all of you bag groceries, because maybe you can stop this dreadful incident from occurring again.
Specifically, though, I want to talk to the baggers. To the bottom of the totem pole people, the ones stuck with all the worst jobs I’m sure. I [...]