I don’t know, I think it sounds like a very African understanding of the world. Questions of language and identity in postcolonial Africa are still very much in flux and the colonial languages spoken by African natives are ‘European’ voices. In 1986, after being imprisoned for staging a play in his native Gĩkũyũ,…

And yet you ignore the fact that, as a character, T’challa will directly CHOOSE to speak in a Wakandan accent, regardless of his education and where he had to go to get it.

I don’t think he’s saying that the European languages that were forcefully imported to Africa haven’t evolved into their own regional variants that have a very different sound than their European counterparts.

the conquered invariably take from the conqueror and create something of their own

Sure, but Wakanda was never conquered in this fictional world. Those Wakandans that do speak English (and who knows how pervasive the teaching of foreign languages is through their educational system) likely learned the language from Wakandan teachers who in turn learned from their Wakandan teachers for potentially…

I’m not sure why you’re labelling this as an American understanding instead of colonial. The Senegalese learned French from the colonists.

This is definitely a weird situation that I think is made weirder by the fact that it’s an American film with English-speaking characters. If authenticity was valued over all else, T’Challa wouldn’t be speaking English at all — he’d be speaking Wakandan. Because why would people in an isolationist nation that has…

You never know the circumstances when traveling, including lost luggage, illness, bereavement... not okay to publicly shame. I have met people flying for all different reasons in all different conditions.

Sorry guys, I should have known this would bring out all the MRA types. They’re like bloodhounds for this shit.

That’s great that that tactic worked for you, but for a lot of people who are being abused and/or gaslighted by their partners, finding actual physical evidence is super important. It grounds you in reality and gives you something real to work with. It’s not always so simple as just asking and then walking away if the…

Whilst I sympathize with this position and it’d definitely the “right” way to resolve it, I dunno if it’s that simple in practice, especially not if one of the partners is socially dominant or very convincing (which doesn’t make them a liar or cheating, but makes it a lot easier for them to get away with it if they…

a state of abnormally heightened self-dramatization

Oh my god, I can relate to this. Went through his phone when he went to the bathroom cause he had been pretty damn bad about hiding it earlier that day. Bam. Most recent text convo.

Don’t ruin their Wolverines fantasies.

Setting aside the absolute ridiculousness of using a 200 year old document to govern anything about modern life, I would argue that a strict reading does not mean that every asshole can own a gun. The second amendment acknowledges gun ownership only in the context of maintaining a free state as part of a well…

So yea, it means any asshole can have a gun.

It’s 2017. You sure as shit aren’t defending your First Amendment rights from the government with guns.

Actual footage of me when my bf gets out of the shower.

Many Muslims say this phrase every morning and evening during prayer. It’s like saying “Amen.”

And neither do literally billions of Muslims who say Allahu Akbar during prayer, or when they see something magnificent, or any other time they say it. The point is that we need to get away from the narrative that anytime you hear Allahu Akbar, it’s automatically something negative.