Huh huh, you said stroke.
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Stroke would have multiple meanings there.
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Maybe more appropriate in the thread I started yesterday.
āItās kinda worrying, when SWAT is in front of your house and youāre paying this kind of rent,ā Stephen Chambliss said.
Has to be a winner. It was a domestic hostage situation. What has the cost of your rent got to do with it?
Iām sure this is due to racism or something.
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Gotta wonder how this would have played out in the media if the cop was white and did the same thing.
Cultural appropriation
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āThis way, cast members that might not identify as female can still be part of the process to dress up & style the children without having to refer to themselves as a female Disney character,ā according to Disney blog"
Savvy move by Disney. They were missing out on a lot of business from parents who want a tattooed man in a dress putting princess makeup on their young daughters.
All of this progressive progress is really moving society ahead. What an exciting future we have!
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Iām surprised more people arenāt identifying as White Christian Males, considering all the priviledges it gives.
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Itās all make believe. They arenāt fairy godmothers nor are they apprentices to fairy godmothers. Itās like how most of them live their real lives.
The one it doesnāt give is perpetual victimhood.
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Wasnāt sure what thread to put this in, the Things That Piss You Off one, or this one, but here.
Someone gave our daughter a White doll. How do we, um, ādisappearā it? (msn.com)
I know the whole āwhat if they were the other colorā arguments are garbage, but this is straight up racism - and parents pushing it onto their kids at that. City blocks would have burned had this been the other way aroundā¦ this shit irritates the fuck out of me; kids donāt give a damn what color you are - they just want to be friends with everyone.
Identity politics pisses me off.
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Representation has been shown to boost self-esteem. I think the parents are doing a great thing by exposing their child to media/toys that look like them.
To say cities will burn if it were the other way around is utterly ridiculous.
This is not what they are doing. They are exposing their child only to toys that look like them. It is, by definition, excluding dolls that donāt look like them. Their problem with the toy is specifically that itās white.
If I wanted to throw away my daughtersā only black doll, that would sound racist (and rightfully so). All Iām asking is that the same standard apply across the board.
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Throwing away a white doll that was given to your daughter isnāt the same as āexposing their child to media/toys that look like them.ā You can do the latter without freaking out over a white doll.
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True, I can see where the parents are coming from though
So if the article said
Weāve also been intentional with buying her white dolls and toys. White is always the preference, but weāve made exceptions. (Her Moana blanket is still a favorite.) Black dolls, though? We havenāt officially banned them. There is no sign on our stoop saying āNo Dogs or Black Barbies.ā But if weāre at a store, and the only dolls for sale are Black, weāll just be leaving doll-less that night.
That this understandable?
Letās call a ball, a ball and a strike, a strike.
The article didnāt say that though