I absolutely agree that it was right to rehome the child. I’ve seen friends struggle through the adoption of special needs children through an international process (Korea and China) and it was hard on both families - especially the one with older kids who then had an “oops” pregnancy months after their adoption was…

Thanks for explaining this so I didn’t have to. I suspect the bankruptcy played a big role here and that the settlement is as much as they could get without tying it up indefinitely.

You aren’t “awarded” a settlement, you negotiate a settlement. You are awarded a judgment by a jury.

This right here.  Succinct and bang on.

The erasing history argument is so transparently disingenuous. These colonialist statues went up on land owned by other peoples, effectively erasing their histories at the time. Thinking history begins when white people show up is peak caucasity. 

Everything has a downside.

I also like that they have set up a romance for her and Happy.

Please let then do the Notebook (not a classic I know, but so many women my age are still hung up on that stupid movie and all it does is romanticize pre-Civil Rights era South).

Hollywood’s love of the myth of noble confederate cause means that a lot of early movies will need a content warning on them. Good. Because Hollywood’s love of that myth, and the romanticizing of the old south has been something that has gone unchallenged and unexamined for far too long. I hope more movies get the “wro…

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We’re snapping at each other a bit more, but it’s minor and easily apologized for. We’re also very lucky in that we seem to be taking turns having our meltdowns—one person has a horrible downward spiral and the other talks them through; then switch.

* Extra star

This is wise. Forgiveness is an ongoing process rather than an absolute one time epiphany that fixes things. It’s taken my whole adult life to learn this, hell I’m still learning it.

You’re wife didn’t bring it up again because she wants to know more. She wants to know if you’re trustworthy, and she thinks more information will help her know for sure.

In FX’s upcoming documentary AKA Jane Roe, Norma McCorvey, more commonly known as ‘Jane Roe’ in the Roe v. Wade case, says that she was paid by evangelical leaders to pretend she was anti-abortion and “ex-gay” to lend credence to anti-abortion causes.

Whatever her personal position on abortion is now, it has no bearing on whether or not women should be able to access essential reproductive health services (they should), and it never has. It’s not like I’m pro-choice because of her position.

Right? Those can’t be her clothes. Even if she shows just a bit, some loose clothes would cover it. She’s drowning in this get up. If anything it calls more attention.

I’m with you. I’ve been in the houses with these kitchens, and I guarantee that the wall to the right contains a Sub-Zero refrigerator with a cabinetry front, and probably a separate freezer and matching wine fridge.

Hester is right. Kevin is the male Karen.

I think it depends on who is deploying the term. As Rachel Charlene Lewis writes over at Bitch Media, “Karen” as a meme is complicated by the fact that ageism and sexism are very real. As with “OK Boomer,” there are unspoken yet understood rules to “Karen” that are skipped by the outsiders who gleefully and ignorantly…