Unpopular opinion alert.

As my people say “this table you are shaking.” The ridiculousness of Grown-ish can make it hard to watch. As the OP stated, maybe it’s because I’m not in the target demographic? Different World was silly too (Dwayne hallucinating Shakespeare is one that comes to mind) but very, very real (Kim struggling to pay for…

Oh, it’s not just you. Yara was one of my favorite parts of Black-ish, but she’s giving me distinct Denise Huxtable vibes on Grown-ish, and I’m really surprised that the writers seem to be leaning in to it. She’s easily the most annoying of her friend group. It’s like they took that side of her that you saw on…

It’s the acting on it. And to be honest its just her that I feel is out of her element. The supporting cast is wonderful. It’s almost how I feel about the first season of A Different World. It was elevated when Denise went back home and the show upped everyone else.  It may just be me.  I watch it bc I want to support…

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i would have listened without Beyonce being her sister. A seat at the table put her on her own island in ways her prior albums didn’t. and i too actually like her. so i’d give her a shot off of GP. and i dont think she’s untalented. i think the bar was set so high with her last album that this one feels bad.

Watched most of the doc last night and it’s pretty chilling. I have complicated feelings about it, but I believe these victims’ stories. More to your point, this morning I remembered the Chappelle’s Show skit that, especially in retrospect, highlighted (intentionally, I think) the general public’s willful ignorance/…

The issue of MJ and the current movement of calling out abusers is so difficult, personally. Young people do not understand how impactful Michael was to us old folks and how his music transcends time.

Same. Also, we had childhood sexual abuse in my family. (Not my predator, the predator of my aunts and a cousin.) The aunts, to this very day, speak in glowing terms about their father, who raped them as children. The cousin, when she spoke out, was essentially turned into persona non grata. It wasn’t any of their…

She’s beautiful all the time, of course, but she looks freaking jaw-dropping for 32 weeks! By third trimester I’m like on the couch, in my husband’s pajama pants and compression socks. Good for her.

Maybe because I’m a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, but for some reason I have always believed he was guilty. Always. I loved Michael as a musician; grew up on the Jackson 5; had a total crush on him; was in total breathtaking awe when Thriller came out, and I saw the video; and still to this day talk about his…

What terrifying are the people still defending him. Every article I read about this documentary fills up with people defending him (with some pretty odd syntax). I don’t know what the point is of that but his defenders are hardcore.

I tore the card up and threw it in the trash. Everybody was angry at me and didn’t speak to me for a couple of days.

My greatest victory is all due to being in recovery after years of off and on addiction. About nine months after I got clean, I took a temp job as an admin assistant. I worked really hard, was honest and transparent and they quickly hired me as Administrative Manager. It was honestly the most fun job I’d ever had. I…

I once yelled at a guy, across a parking lot no less, for tossing something out his window as he drove by. (“Nice job, pig!”) The words were out of my mouth before my brain could weigh the consequences. Like, it was broad daylight and in public, so I probably WOULD NOT get murdered, but you can never rule it out, you…

I used to be a barmaid in a remote Australian town that had a large Aboriginal population and was so, so racist. The pub had two bars in separate rooms, connected by an opening behind the bar so the bar staff could move easily between them.

Some little shithead was hitting my six-year-old kid at recess. We talked to the teacher and the principal multiple times to no avail. (We don’t know who is doing it, your child only mentions it after-the-fact, etc)

I used to work in a government subsidy program that paid for child care for needy families. I had an 86 year old client who was caring for her 3 grandchildren ages 5-10 in my caseload. She missed an appointment and I had to initiate a termination of her case. She didn’t get in contact until the day after her case…

I stood up for a person and for being a decent friend in general. One of my best friends now was being bullied by her “friends”at school. One of them told her that she couldn’t eat lunch with them because she wasn’t cool anymore. I heard this from my seat in class and got PISSED. I didn’t really know the chick at the…