New South Publishing wants to eliminate all Niggers from Huckleberry Finn. “Nigger” was once commonly used to describe people of African descent. Although, at the time, the word had no derogatory meaning, the terrible way blacks were treated at the time tainted the word with awful associations. History made this word offensive. But when the ...
When his words crashed into the internet like a car-wreck, we couldn’t look away. Mad Mel is at it again, people said. I never liked him anyway, they said. There is a lot to say on this topic, but no one is stating the obvious: We should leave Mel alone.
Mick, Morning Quickie
Dear Madame X, Nigger: It is the word I am writing my doctoral thesis about. It is a disgusting, horrible part of America’s linguistic heritage. However it is creeping into my sexual fantasies. As a black woman I would never tolerate this word being said to my face, so why does it turn me on ...
Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...
