That’s basically the exact example of what I’m talking about. I got in a serious fight with my dad a couple years ago where he refused to admit something he recommended (some political book, can’t remember the title) was racist AF. I lost my patience and told him if he believed that shit he was being racist, and he…

I just assumed you meant some people consider him subtle, which depressingly, some people* do.

We won’t know anything new. I said explicitly that he’s not subtly racist. Trump is obviously racist. It is not subtle.

It’s not subtle, at least per the word’s normal definition. However, there are a lot of people (usually white... sadly, sometimes not) who believe that racism isn’t racism without ‘n’ calling card... Literally, it’s usually the n-word. Because Trump and Co. use dog whistle terminology like ‘thug’ they are not…

Is your name Mitch?

I think the entire point is that it’s creepy AF. To make this a Double Reply, I’m also going to respond to what you said to Madeline: “The idea of watching a show that is based upon the idea of things I don’t want to see in action is not something that brings me joy.”

I think the term “sleep training” makes it sound overly extreme and/or weird (even I was like, ‘what is that?’ the first time I heard it) because really it’s just... getting your kid to sleep all night in their own bed.

If it’s not about the safety of the child (and it’s clearly not exactly that, more like long-term familial well-being) then they best doctors/consultants can do is say “you should do this” and then if the parent doesn’t... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Oh, to be sure. I read that as an extreme reaction to an older child (who could wander out of bed and through the house on their own).

NONONONONONONONO

Yeah, I do not want to get judgey, but this feels like the exact example of why a parent would want to sleep train their kid whole said kid is still a little bean.

Holy shit. I’m not a parent so I’m wholly unqualified to comment with advice, but... I remember being six. I have clear memories of first grade. I can’t imagine remembering something like that.

I cannot imagine a more obvious waste of taxpayer money than the National fucking Guard flying a fucking military helicopter over residential neighborhoods looking for singular marijuana plants and then going and retrieving them one by one.

Freud was a hack.

I was responding to the audience as well as you. It’s all binary arguments around here when the subject of greek life comes up.

They’re fun. (Or they were when I was in college.) Also, no drunk driving or cabs to worry about—pledges have to drive.

Heh, that’s not confidence.

From a person who has also been the victim of an armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon, although to be honest not nearly of this magnitude? Never. Not really.

I’m with you. When I heard Kim was ok last night my first thought was (this is embarrassing) that I was worried about Pascal. He’s just a German man who likes to work out and worships the Kardashians/Jenners/Yeez. :(

With fiction written by women I’d be super careful so far as judging by covers goes, and for that matter, even genre placement. Publishers have very strong feelings about what sells and oftentimes books written by women are marketed specifically as “women’s fiction” instead of “literary fiction,” with the cover art to…