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I had a similar reaction (though I’m not trans) - I’m a little weirded out by this. I mean I’m sure she’ll do a great job and probably had her reasons etc etc, but it struck me as odd.

I LOVE YOU FOR THIS REFERENCE
LOVE LOVE LOVE

WAIT AN ASIAN ASTRID WHAT

I’m from Maryland and I feel like I’m being embarrassed by my uncle right now

Yeah, I’m from Maryland and this was a total surprise to me.

Okay, but circumcision and piercing babies’ ears are both common procedures that violate bodily autonomy and do fuck all for society. Can’t we violate bodily autonomy in a helpful way, for once?*

The Jenniger River... supplying water to western Africa, falling over onstage, ending in the gulf of Guinea, having relatable opinions about dieting.

I am not even remotely surprised by this revelation

DON’T LISTEN! Scrapple is good, I swear. Have you ever had polenta? It’s like the taste of breakfast sausage with the texture of polenta (because it has actual cornmeal in it, not for a weird reason).

I’m from Maryland and scrapple is good as long as you don’t expect it to be anything other than scrapple. Which I guess is hard if you’ve never had scrapple before, but eh, here we are.

SAME. I’m glad someone said this.

Let’s be friends

Oh for fuck’s sake Calvin

Rita Ora has an amazing voice and I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise. Miley Cyrus has an interesting voice that I like. Charli XCX is good but not the most expressive singer in the world. So up till Iggy Azalea I’m actually super down for this.

haha I’m glad we got this all cleared up

It was obviously sarcastic, but it read to me as the sort of sarcasm one uses in response to a serious statement. Apparently not. My b.

GUYSSSSS
HE’S
JOKING

As a Swede, Kerstin pronounced the phonetic English way will never not be weird to me. I respect you and I respect your name, Kur s tin, but it should be pronounced “Sheshten” and my brain can’t let go of it, I’m sorry.

Ten bucks says the people who were mad about this think blackface is totally cool and funny