Actually, I get to do whatever the fuck I want, and so do you. I posted in GT because I this made me think, but it really wasn't about you.

I think you're being really unfair. You're demanding that the OP admit to things they haven't said while refusing to listen their attempts to clarify. You're treating this comment thread like a trial. You pretty clearly just want to make them feel like shit for having said something that upset you.

I disagree with them, just as I disagree with you. This piece is very clearly about the NYT piece describing braids as a "now" stylish trend when black women have been braiding their hair for centuries, and it was anything but an easy thoughtless hairstyle. Yes, white women in history have also braided their hair, but…

I don't see how....

No one's saying it belongs to any one ethnicity. What this article is about is how the author of the original piece ignores the history of the braid other than with respect to white women.

That's not what's being presented here.

It's horrifying. And Solange is a public person most people like. Have you ever read any of the things written about Theresa Guidice's kids? Or any of the Real Housewives kids? It's sickening.

It also was way ahead of it's time in terms of showing black children just being children, like all of Ezra Jack Keats' books :)

I don't think it's so much about whether or not she was asked about her home life in the interview, as part of a full interview of many questions related to her work. That seems fine to me - and you're right, it's a conversation we should be having.

To be fair, the interview was actually pretty good. It's whatever idiot that created the "headline" thing at the bottom, making it more infuriating almost.

You could also do Evil Troy and Evil Abed! Or any of their Halloween costumes!

I think it's all about personality. My experiences with depression made me SO empathetic to anyone else who was having a hard time with anything. It also made me feel better to be able to help other people with their shit, like okay I'm not totally worthless and people need me and I have a connection to the people…

I totally agree. Snooki and J-Wow's friendship is actually a breath of fresh air on reality tv, where it seems to constantly just be women fighting with each other.

Oh okay. Above you said that you thought congress members shouldn't get paid, that's why I didn't assume you meant an average salary.

Okay but as other people have said, if you take money entirely out of politics you'll end up with a congress of people who can afford to make no money for however long their term is - a bunch of rich people.

No, I agree with you - it is nuanced! But what the poster I was responding to said was that there was a character coming in who was similar to Sansa but able to take more action, and that if people disliked her as well it would be misogyny, because it's okay that people dislike Sansa because she can't do anything but…

Yes I agree that it's natural to find Sansa's plotlines frustrating (I wouldn't know anything about her internal monologue because I haven't read the books) but I find the notion that it's okay to hate characters that are denied agency for their lack of agency problematic, particularly if we extrapolate to the real…

Ouh thanks for the explanation! I don't think that was in the series.

Ouh thanks for the explanation! I don't think that was in the series.

Hmm that's interesting. I think that you could argue that hatred of a character who has no agency and no way to attain agency for that reason is misogyny. Or at least the lack of recognition of the ways Sansa does use what little power is left to her is. We only recognize agency when it's in the form of…