I know...at first i was like...she was four when the Revolution happened...what could he post....

You mean a 90. So...you know...landscape view.

I know a woman who works on that creative team. She's a writer by trade and went to the creative writing program at the University of Houston.

I have a friend so cynical, so hungry for negativity that when she asked, dolefully through chat, how my relationship was going, I said, "I'm engaged!"

I know! As someone who loves an outrageous stock photo, this was tops.

hahahahah!

A coworker and friend of mine from a nonprofit I used to work at got married three years ago. His fiancee put all kinds of crazy expensive crap on their registry. It was really just her registry with impractical stuff like vegetable specific slicers or whatever.

Agreed. "Come at me little bro" made my whole morning.

What does your racial identity have to do with your misreading of my "rape/master slave miscegenation" comment? "Rape" is there as a qualifier to clarify what I meant by miscegenation. I know its a loaded term so I was careful to qualify it. Not careful enough it seems.

I am not throwing around Harriet Jacobs. You asked what I had read and I told you. I didn't say it was a representative story. Jacobs was tormented psychologically rather that physically so that's what makes that book important and perhaps anomalous Slavery didn't have to be physically brutal to be damaging. …

I didn't say he was awesome. Or that he was her boyfriend in any real sense. I said the relationship was consensual...to the degree that any male female and white black relationship could be in that situation.

Harriet Jacobs's autobiography. She has a consensual relationship with a white man who is not her master. Ugh. Don't try to school me on Black feminism. That's really, really ridiculous. Please read my comment and don't try to pwn me when you obviously have a big ole chip on your shoulder.

I know. I went to public school in the southwest (NM) and slavery was certainly taught and rape/master slave miscegenation were also taught and explained. Why on earth would anyone think that's a private prep school thing?

Country music always lays it on thick. Not cool when talking about race.

States rights to OWN human beings. I know you said you aren't advocating that position or way of thinking/justifying the secession,but the whole state's rights thing is such a cop out and avoiding the central issue.

Ooh. Good call. I wondered if she was trying to emulate Megan but the hair was even darker than that.

I get a lesbian vibe from Betty as well. What is it about her that screams lesbian? The weird sexual fantasy about the violinist? But that involved her husband....hmm. Strange, but I agree and can't figure out why.

Trudy I could see as a professional in her own right. She's well educated, from a wealthy family, and today it would be easy for a pretty advantaged woman to find a career in something that works well with those privileges. She's awesome in the second (?) season in counseling Pete through his work woes and later…

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