I'm guessing some people find it obnoxious, but I really appreciate the "killed but did not murder" every time this man comes up.

She's White, conventionally good looking, young, and probably upper middle class. There's more than a good chance that she'll be employed by someone or another. For a long time after this, even.

The Lone Ranger. Who knew she was in it? Not me!

I am an idiot, because at first I thought that her kids were blowing their noses on everything.

This is silly. Everyone knows Morgan Freeman is God.

If you work for a primarily religious organization - say, you're a first-grade teacher at a Catholic school - and you publicly make a statement in support of something that violates the employer's values such as support for gay marriage or coming out, they generally have the right to end your employment.

Um, she was arrested and charged with a crime so there is some evidence she exploited her worker. Next, this woman is not entitled to domestic help. If she cannot afford the wages she alleged to pay on her visa, she should not have hired an employee in the first place let alone lie about it to the US government. And…

Hmm actually Indian government's antics are not so because she is middle class - that's just a coverup.

I would add my two cents that how we imagined "caste" to function forty or fifty years ago was largely the product of the imagination of Western anthropologists and British imperials bureaucrats. The work of Bernard Cohn in An Anthropologist among the Historians and other Essays and Nick Dirks in Castes of Mind really…

You're comment is so wonderfully ignorant about how caste is functioning in this instance. But whatever, white privilege means I don't need to actually learn about others, I can just make it up as I go along.

Hell, that only proves my point even more: she would be upper class based less on her caste, and more on her financial earnings. This still indicates that, as a member of the upper class, there is the mentality that she should be treated differently.

I'm not sure she is middle class in terms of financial assets. She and her family were involved in a major housing scandal in Mumbai...aren't they quite wealthy and influential?

I'm going to ignore the caste thing, because I can't claim to fully understand it.

And yet, she's middle-class, which implies the outrage has less to do with her caste than her class. Which implies that India still has yet to shake a lot of the caste-mentality: which is true. It still is struggling with the idea of class, structure, and who is better than whom dependent on birth, wealth, and…

I fucking love your random comment. Shakespeare made TONS of dirty jokes. The number of euphemisms for female genitalia from that era is absolutely staggering. I think "boy in the boat" is my favorite.

Well then star it, bitch! Why the fuck am I still in the greys sometimes is beyond me. Obviously getting most of your comments starred multiple times is insufficient.

Because this is the internet, I am going to make this be about cats. I used to have a white board on the fridge where people wrote down whatever books, movies, or records they borrowed. One day I saw "Boris Goes North" in my boyfriend's handwriting. Two days later, it had been replaced by "Return of the Boris" by my…

It's not a review, Penabler. It's a guide.

I know, I was terribly confused because I kept thinking he was being voiced by my ex-husband.

The best part about Smaug was how IN LOVE WITH HIMSELF he was. This kid is a self-masturbatory juggernaut. "My hide is iron, my teeth are swords" *sexually moans and gropes self* "I am fire! I am death!"