I think you handled that really well. You validated his mom's opinion and put him at ease with you.

This happened to me today:

So your upset about the lion being photoshopped in, yet Oprah has been getting shopped in for years. I doubt she even shows up for these covers anymore.

"Live Your Best Lie"

Is it much of a surprise?

You know who else freaks me out on magazine covers in checkout lines?! Paula Deen. She always looks off - just slightly scary with her tarantula studded weird blue gaze. (those are Tammy Faye Baker quality eyelashes!)

#ThatLuckyLionEscapedBecomingOprahsNextMeal,ThisTime

So...Oprah was lion to us?

I'm actually pretty happy she wasn't posing with a real lion. Happy for the lion, anyway. I suppose it's worse to pose with a dead lion you just shot, but overall better to not pose for pictures with lions, live in captivity or dead. Unless you're on safari or something and several hundred feet in the foreground.

I love that it wasn't a real lion. Animals are not props.
(please ungrey me. I am losing the will to live)

I would rather have seen her cuddling with the man in the lion suit. That would be facing a fear on my behalf. I have a very specific nightmare inspired by the wizard of Oz that I still get whenever I'm stressed. Men in lion suits are scary! I'd rather snuggle a real lion.

Was there ever any doubt that it was photoshpped?! It looks like a fucking painting.

Fuck Oprah.

rape fantasy? Seriously, unclench.

You don't say. Then do us all a favor and stop discussing white people issues. You just don't get it.

White privilege is being white with an article on Jezebel talking shit about white people and how they just don't get it.

Did they attempt to quarter soldiers in your home?

My impression was that the hashtag isn't for educating black people about how nice the cops are to white people, but educating fellow white people on their own hypocrisy. It's a lot harder to say that these murdered black men were thugs and criminals who "got what they deserved" when white people admit to the same…

We only took incalls from idiots responding to infomercials. Thats the aristocracy of telemarketing.

Oh, for christ's sake! He did a winky face! It was a joke on her joke!