“Things You’re Not Allowed to Say”: The FuBon Starbucks Stereotype

–By Emma Fulford Stereotypes, while frowned upon, are, well… at least, mostly true. While I hate to so easily abdicate my guilty-white-liberal street cred, I think it’s time to say out loud what most of us, at least privately, understand to be true: stereotypes aren’t random. They didn’t spring from the Earth and attach themselves [...]

Things You’re Not Allowed to Say: “Zoophilia”

–By Emma Fulford “I watched this really fascinating documentary about zoophilia the other day. You should rent it. What’s that? Oh, bestiality, basically.” The above is my side of a few very brief conversations I recently had with friends/acquaintances in which I very innocently suggested that they rent the 2007 documentary “Zoo”. Yes, it is about that particularly yucky [...]

Emma Fulford: You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody Hates You

“Actually, No… I Don’t Respect Your Religious Beliefs” You heard right. I don’t. Though I’m one hell of a fan of the First Amendment, and I do indeed defend your right to believe in such absurd and asinine concepts as creationism or Intelligent Design, magic glasses and golden tablets, the Rapture, the virgin birth, sacred [...]