Oh, sorry, I meant my gut reaction when I saw the headline. I should have worded that differently. Upon reading, it's just...bizarre. But my assumption on seeing the headline was that it would be about, like, nurturing your baby close to your body in a very expensive baby cocoon so that you could be one family and…

"But I'm also aware of a baby's fragile bone structure at this age, and if even one person made a misstep, this story could have had a profoundly different ending."

I agree! It is fucking ridiculous (and kinda hilarious) and there is nothing racist about saying it is ridiculous!

Oh, no, to clarify...the racist undertones are from the many other comments about her education and writing, not from the assumptions drawn from the head line (my assumption was; a baby attached to the brides train all bundled up in a dogsled like they were on the Baby Iditarod. Race, irrelevant. Pictured a baby of an…

Yes. This seems like a particularly exhausting thing to feel outrage about. She's walking like 20 feet, it's not like she's that crazy yoga betch flinging that baby around over her head.

No. I am saying that (outside of your referenced but as yet unseen study) the Ptolemy's, famous for exclusive intermarrying in a land where intermarriage between siblings was de rigeur, produced an offspring, Celo, who was Greek.

As for her appearance, everything we have on the historical record indicates that she…

So, I've neither said she looked white nor have I said I think a white person should play Cleopatra. I really don't give a sack of dingo's kidney's who play'sCleopatra in a giant, big budget, Hollywood money jerk off that won't get the history right anyway.

Despite your valiant search for a villain in this discussion,…

Yes.

I really have nothing to add here except holy shit, that face. What is it like, I wonder, to look in the mirror and see that face looking back at you? This might just be my fangirl-ness speaking but I swear, she is getting more beautiful as she ages.

This isn't a vote for Jolie's Cleopatra, but Cleo and everyone in her family were the products of fairly rigorous inter-breeding within one family, the Ptolemys (new reality show idea??) who were Greek. The original Ptolemy was one of Alexander the Great's generals who, after Al died, divvied up his empire. Ptolemy…

Could you link those studies? As far as I've read, Cleopatra was ethnically Greek.

You seem like a miserable person.

How can you "hate" pets, or animals (not for consumption). Do you honestly prefer the company of humans over furry critters? Do you even live on the same planet as us? All jokes aside, to each their own - but I can't fathom disliking animals at all.

You sound like an absolute joy to be around

I like cats fine. They seem to like me. I can, however, understand why people might not like them. But people who dislike dogs for reasons other than fear or allergies are ALWAYS assholes.

What alternate universe do you live in? I've never seen any of that. I have however seen several cats on peoples counters and around their food. There are morons all over the place. That aside, you sound extremely angry and negative, I hope that gets better for you.

oh god seriously. the cat box smells. you don't notice it, but it smells. >_<

Given that the cat-alternative is letting your pet poop in the house, I don't think any animal-owner comes off that great here in the intellectual department . . .

as opposed to having to clean out a pee and crap filled box all the time, possibly inhaling said pee and crap along with the cat litter dust? Ew.

Some people have helper dogs and they're allowed to go places with them because they have disabilities.