Okay, I won't shout if you'll acknowledge that #notallmen is of zero helpfulness in this situation and constitutes derailing. Just as showing up at an abolitionist meeting in 1856 and yelling "not all Southerners!" would, I dunno, not be well-received. Almost as though this entire discussion, by your own admission, is …

So how about you don't do it, because YOU ARE NOT THE POINT?

Oh, Frozen is in its own category, for sure. I'm glad our wee one sees herself more as Merida than anyone else, though. It helps that she likes to have her hair sprayed with red stuff on Halloween! May have a harder time talking hubby into a kilt. :)

I was hoping you'd chime in on this! Good to know there's a continuum on the cringeworthy scale- have you ever seen "Brave"? I really enjoyed the special features they did on all the accents involved (most of actors were Scots, and I particularly enjoyed the Doric-speaking actor). My youngest wants to be Merida for…

I loved the '40's music sneaking in! Instead of a voiceover of Claire saying "I miss Frank, I want to go home," we can hear her own time calling to her. Very cool.

I've been having good luck with couchtuner.

Hey, did everybody catch the author's cameo? She looked good, but she sounded more Irish than Scots to me (I'm no expert, though).

Since the original article could easily appear in a number of current news sources- who rightly assume that their audiences will applaud mocking and marginalizing others (looking at you, Fox)- calling out its BS is not presentist, but perfectly appropriate.

Hey! That's my longhorn/uterus shirt! I'm wearing it to the Texas Exes tailgate party tonight. :)

Then again, there does seem to be an opposite reaction to the "cattle car" approach that's doing big business...

Here's an idea airlines: remove a row of seats, make some more room, tack on $50 to each ticket, and advertise yourself as the only US airline with comfortable seating. PROFIT.

There's a PFLAG chapter at my church. I'm very proud of that.

All he needs to do is hop on I-75 and go south for about twenty minutes until he's in midtown Atlanta. He'll meet people who know what he's going through.

...ever feel like Christmas is being hijacked by commercialism, or by people who want to "replace 'Merry Christmas' with 'Happy Holidays' or 'Season's Greetings'...

Yes, you're right. I'm sure there are similar cultural speedbumps for all sorts of things set in the south that I just haven't noticed or didn't bother getting angry about- things so basic that it would never occur to me to try and explain to someone, but stand out to an outside observer and are easy to get wrong.

She wrote an interesting book called "The Outlandish Companion" that went through some of the controversies and why she came down on one side or the other- unsurprisingly, the short answer is "it made for a better story". And that's what we're here for, right? Not for a PhD in Scots History (my niece has an Masters in…

If they'd called it "Black Eye for the White Chick," they could have landed the lady wrasslin' demographic.

Can you imagine the money they would make on a Spy vs. Spy style romp?

Bet she was just about to sneeze.

I must have missed something. When did "feticide" become a thing?????