Small quibble — the Buckets weren’t American. Charlie bought his Wonka bar because he found 50 pence in the snow (children’s librarian here).

Well thank god somebody got to him and made him change his mind. Because as much as I love many of Dahl’s books, he was not the author to write about a working class child of color in 1960s Britain. His working-class heroes are already created from the perspective of a posh person’s romanticism of the poor. I shudder…

UGH. As a city parent, I cannot overstate the importance of corner stores to healthy communities. Corner stores (we don’t really call them bodegas and the owners are usually Palestinian) serve as the grandmas for the neighborhood. The corner stores keep an eye out, and they sweep the sidewalk, and they lend you a…

It seems like Alamo Drafthouse is not interested in conversations about how to become a more supportive space for women except in the most performative way.

Me too! Married 17 years, very happy, 2 kids. But the college boyfriend who cheated on me 25 years ago? Who I have no romantic interest in and am actually glad I didn’t wind up with? I would beat him with a bat if I could get away with it. When I am an old lady, if we end up getting stuck in the same nursing home…

Well let’s test this theory -- do you hate your self and love apple fritters?

Didn’t David Sedaris already write this story?

Holy shit! Thanks for the perspective.

But he was accused multiple times of victimizing children as a school bus driver IN THE SAME TOWN! As a small town gal myself, I can’t believe people hadn’t heard.

Exactly. Poor Ernest Martin — though who knows, maybe he ran on a cannibalism platform?

I had to google and find out whether he ran unopposed (he didn’t). WTF, Stillwater?

I remember hate-watching that show because I loved Robert Downey Jr on it. And I was an early trailblazer in arguing on online comment boards — because I thought RDJ was the fucking bomb and the women of the world were all like ‘Ew gross, what is Ally even doing with that druggie has-been?’ And I continued to defend…

We white people have a tendency to pursue perfection and get paralyzed and fragile as a result (‘I am trying SO HARD to be an ally but am still hearing things that hurt so I am going to lash out’ and ‘I can’t be an ally here because I don’t know the perfect thing to do so I am going to stay home’) Maybe we should…

His hair has been a fucking mess for decades. My mom is a natural strawberry blonde roughly the same age as him, and her hair (in her youth) was that color. When she decided to start coloring her hair she actually said to me “I am really afraid, what if they dye it that awful color that Robert Redford dyes his hair?”…

Dude, sometimes it is okay to say “Interesting... I didn’t look at it that way.”

...however, going back to the original conversation — I do think she said this clearly.

Honest to God, I feel like half the conflicts in this modern life could be resolved by coaching people on how to write a thesis statement.

I disagree. I read her as saying “White privilege is horrible and oppressive and a system built upon the suffering of Black people. It isn’t something that is learned by some white people (and not others). It is inherited by all white people.” Which is a super accurate thing to say.

I might actually commit crimes to get Robin Wright to tell me exactly how to get her fillers into my face.

How could you miss the fact that her gown is (liberal) BIAS CUT.