8 Search results for "indecency"

Comic: Homophobia and the weird double standards it creates about indecency with children
by JeCorey Holder Content Warning: This essay mentions pedophilia and childhood sexual abuse On today’s episode of Straight People Seem to be Physically Incapable of Minding Their Basic Heterosexual Business, let’s talk about the highly selective ignorance folks seem to lean on in regards to exposing kids and babies to sexuality. Tell me why […]
Comic: The cishet obsession with children’s genitals is really weird, and transphobic
Soft Content Warning: Physical Trauma involving babies (circumcision) and vague allusions about adult fascination with underage genitals. by JeCorey Holder So I’ll just go ahead and ask: when are straight people going to unpack their weird obsession with children’s genitals? In the same vein as people who claim a firm pro circumcision stance and then […]
Comic: Newsflash: Breeding isn’t unique to cisheterosexuals
by JeCorey Holder How many times have y’all heard something along the lines of “if it weren’t for heterosexuals, you wouldn’t be here”? You would think that, despite the erasure, it was just something The Straights™ said in jest. But no. Straight people and their pick-me Queer pets are so firm in their belief that […]
New Mexico publication apologizes after political cartoon portraying immigrants as alley gangsters
For some people, decency is less a routine response to life than something they pretend to display if the larger climate is right. So with a blatantly racist fuming mantrum at America’s helm, Americans today engage in high levels of overt indecency. If you have not experienced these upticks in racist and ethnic aggression, ask […]
Terry Crews lambasts return of agent he says groped him, while Matt Lauer is fired from ‘Today’
What does it take to professionally oust powerful men who sexually misbehave in the workplace? A few days ago, actor and author Terry Crews complained about talent agent Adam Venit’s return to Williams Morris Endeavor Entertainment. Crews said Venit grabbed Crews’ penis at an industry party in February 2016 – in front of Crews’ wife, […]
Teacher Accused of Molestation Claims She’s Racist; Wouldn’t Feel Comfortable Touching a Black Child
A Texas teacher accused of inappropriately touching a black first grader claims she cannot possibly be guilty because she’s racist and hates touching black children.
Policing black [youth] bodies in an urban context
The kids are right in that freedom to offend is part of our democracy. But no other ethnic group ever concluded that terrible behavior was a version of ethnic authenticity. That is a black American innovation in cultural imbecility. –Stanley Crouch, Daily News 2010 When America Idol’s General Larry Platt “Pants on the Ground” gained […]
Political Nudeness: Erykah Badu's Window Seat
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hVp47f5YZg Imagine walking in downtown Chicago or on any main avenue in a well-populated city. A black women (that is not noticed on an average day) is walking down that street and she takes her shoes off directly in front of you, and tosses them to the side. Now you, the curious onlooker might think […]