Yep, that's pretty much a classic food fight....

No, it doesn't. I'm sorry, and maybe you're speaking to how your own experiences turned out here, but I think that's one of the really unhelpful myths out there about bullies, that if bullied kids have loving enough parents they'll be fine, and bullying kids don't have loving parents.

I know this is an unpopular position, but I prefer oranges, green, yellow, and blue flavors to reds.

Looks like there will be Starburst jelly beans in my Easter basket this year.

Can we have like, hats or a shirt?

I FUCKING LOVE HERSHEY'S COOKIES AND CREME!!!

Well, actually, the kids who are silent on the Day of Silence are not the gay kids. In my school, they were the "liberal" children of professors who, yes, did the day of silence and then probably used gay slurs in the locker room during their sports practice later that day.

The problem with it in my school (as well as all the issues you've mentioned here) is that there was very little actual awareness raising activity going on. After the first year, there was very little explanation of what it even was, much less incorporating any kind of education activity into the day beyond the…

Okay. I mean, I definitely mentioned how I think that girl power feminism moves away from pop songs into the way young women see the world, but okay.

Yeah, I mean, I understand what girl power feminism is and how it's supposed to work. I just don't think it's particularly useful, except maybe as a starting point for women who are being introduced to feminism. But I definitely think that as a young woman I translated "behind every great man is a greater woman" to…

Okay. That was really just a clarifying question for me out of curiosity; I don't think really that I can have a fully informed opinion on that.

Ugh thank you that statement made my skin crawl.

I mean, I personally think "glorifying marriage" is a stretch as an accusation against her. My problems are more with things like "eat the cake Anna Mae" and "Who Run The World" I think is at least slightly problematic from any feminist perspective. But I do get what you're saying, 100%. Probably the better way to…

Yeah I'm not doing a very good job of explaining myself. I guess I, personally, see equal amounts of feminist and non-feminist expressions in her music but often the non-feminist expressions I see are still radical in the context of her race. Like, Beyonce's non-feminist lyrics glorifying marriage are going to have a…

I absolutely agree. Do you think, though, that it's part of her feminism or more a statement about race? Because, like, with Single Ladies - I don't think glorifying marriage (which, I dunno, I think Single Ladies for me was more about "I want to get married and I'm not gonna waste my time just to have a man" but w/e)…

I mean I know what it means now but Tina Turner was just not part of my cultural lexicon except as someone my mother loved, so I wouldn't know about "eat the cake Anna Mae"

I'm 21 and did not get the reference....

Thanks for making this connection for me. I know of the history of black women as not "getting" to be housewives, and I connected it to MObama but for some reason didn't connect it to Beyonce.... maybe because whatever she's doing, she's a star and that seems like a job to me?

You're a true visionary.

You're like.... if Regina George used her powers for good, not mean. Wow.