Well, it’s not shocking that almost a third of primary school children are educated in faith schools, but for a foreigner it is surprising... I don’t think the percentages are that high in Scandinavian countries like Norway or Denmark, which also have a state church.

Oh yeah, I’m sure all that’s true. I was just introducing the fact that faith schools in the UK educate a far higher proportion of students than they do in the US, where I think the total percentage of all private school attendance is 10%, including secular private schools, and where Catholic schools make up the large…

Oh yeah, I’m sure all that’s true. I was just introducing the fact that faith schools in the UK educate a far higher proportion of students than they do in the US, where I think the total percentage of all private school attendance is 10%, including secular private schools, and where Catholic schools make up the large…

We can also drink to forget how the 2008 movie leaned heavily on the Charles/Julia storyline at the expense of poor Sebastian

Wow, right in the Brideshead Revisited feels. Thanks for this unexpected shot of quivering emotion on a Monday.

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One major, unstated reason why the Church’s position on these issues is so important: unlike in some other countries (such as the US), religiously organized “faith schools” in the UK receive state funding, on a massive scale. And the CoE is by far the largest provider of private education in the country. Per Wikipedia:

One major, unstated reason why the Church’s position on these issues is so important: unlike in some other countries (such as the US), religiously organized “faith schools” in the UK receive state funding, on a massive scale. And the CoE is by far the largest provider of private education in the country. Per Wikipedia:

This show might be less New York-y than 30 Rock or Kimmy Schmidt, but it is so delightfully, intensely New Jersey that I wonder if it doesn’t make it even more of a bubble? So many jokes I feel like are perfectly pitched to my adolescence.

I get what you’re trying to say. But I mean, there’s so much that goes into being a target for assault beyond attire or even “acting flirtatiously.” I’ve been talking about street harassment, because that’s the situation that personally always jumps to mind when questions of “how someone is dressed” come up, but a lot…

I’m so sorry you’ve had to learn that lesson.

We’re not powerless against society. We have the power to change society. But these minimizing strategies don’t work to the extent you might wish that they do. As a white person, I can’t speak to the comparison you’ve made and I’m not comfortable speculating. But again, sexual assault and abuse don’t magically…

Right, but those boundaries are meaningless if men don’t respect them — which they frequently don’t. The framing of her attire and comportment choices as “Here are the things you can do to make yourself less likely to be sexually assaulted” is galling both because it suggests the converse is true (that there are…

Just like everything else about “The Big Bang Theory,” its treatment of women / gender is... not great.

Not Tonya - Surya Bonaly!

The backflip in Nagano!!!! Iconic.

Did you read the article that WaPo did last year about Debi Thomas? It was really sad and so unexpected - she always seemed like she was almost preternaturally gifted.

According to her Facebook page, she’s coaching young skaters in Minnesota while still periodically being invited to prestige events like gallery openings and international forums in Europe... so pretty much where I’d hope a former skater of her stature would wind up!

Nope. Fuck Elvis ever since he got involved in the 2010 controversy around how skating needed to be more “masculine”:

Yessss! Please let this be the beginning of a flourishing subgenre of 80s/90s figure skating biopics. Suggested other topics: