The "Dumb Jock" Myth is Dumb
Unfair in its generalization, dumb jock is a myth that has stuck to college sports like corruption has stuck to American politics.
Unfair in its generalization, dumb jock is a myth that has stuck to college sports like corruption has stuck to American politics.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
Jackson should immediately apologize to blacks for not only trashing them, but also apologize for his hypocrisy. But that's not all.
Christine Hassler | Posted 07.15.2008 | Living
I read your posts about adultolescents. As a hard-working member of Gen Y, I feel like I have to overcome a lot of stereotypes like the carefree, irr...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media
The great danger is that the lies and maliciousness the Obama slander sites busily fan could or has had some resonance with some voters, especially the much fought-over independents.
Marissa Moss | Posted 07.14.2008 | Entertainment
Apparently, the only place you can see a girl kissing another girl on MTV nowadays is on The Real World after six tequila shots in the hot tub. Certainly not in the video called, um, "I Kissed a Girl."
Bella DePaulo | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics
Single voters play favorites, their favorites are Democrats, and there are about 92 million of them eligible to vote.
Caryl Rivers | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics
Even though the cool, urbane, extremely rational Obama is the antithesis of the hate-spewing radical, that is the image that the Republicans will surely use if he is the nominee.
Andrea Learned | Posted 02.19.2008 | Living
Stereotype slinging is actually evidence of a gender relations cultural transformation cracking the ice of years and years of traditional perspective.
Tessa DeCarlo | Posted 02.07.2008 | Politics
It's been clear that not least among Barack's many qualifications for high office is now neatly he appears to fit the stereotype of the Redemptive Black Friend.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 12.12.2007 | Entertainment
Blank's remarks continue a recent and deeply troubling pattern in which leading media and public figures have demeaned African-Americans with wise cracks, slips, and off-color jokes.
Caryl Rivers | Posted 11.12.2007 | Politics
Women candidates walk a knife-edge between appropriate and inappropriate behavior. In Hillary's case it's a balancing act between shrill feminism and weak womanhood.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.07.2007 | Entertainment
The public scapegoat of blacks for America's drug problem during the past two decades has been relentless, and the at all costs hunting down by Richie (Crowe) of Lucas (Washington) in American Gangster is stark testimony to that relentlessness.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 11.02.2007 | Living
The biggest complaint I hear from wives is they don't share their emotions. Here are the 10 reasons why husbands don't open up to their wives.
Cristina Pippa | Posted 10.26.2007 | Living
"Girls As Grantmakers" programs operate based on the principle that girls can learn to be philanthropists in the same way that they learn to be anything else -- through practical experience.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.18.2007 | Politics
Stripped away, Cosby's book is the same stock claim that blacks can't read, write or speak coherent English, and are social and educational cripples and failures.
Ann Friedman | Posted 10.02.2007 | Media
The media had barely gotten over the fact that Hillary sometimes wears v-necks when a new sexist observation cropped up. Apparently she doesn't laugh -- she cackles.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 09.26.2007 | Media
It's easy to razz O'Reilly as a loudmouthed racist. But dumping on O'Reilly for giving his honest reaction is disingenuous and self-serving. It simply puts O'Reilly on the hook while letting far too many others off of it.
Eric Deggans | Posted 09.26.2007 | Media
Too smart to personally use an epithet in the way Don Imus finally did, he instead turns rap culture into a straw man used to represent all or most of black America.
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Myles Brand | Posted 10.09.2008 | Entertainment