Yeeeeah. I was starting to get a troll vibe. Thanks!

Too late for me, unfortunately...

Read the whole thing on WaPo, but for the love of all that is everything, DON'T READ THE COMMENTS.

*pushes nerd glasses up* As somebody who still actively collects LEGO, I am kind of amused by all the complaints about the female hourglass curve. I've played with LEGO since I could steal my older brothers, and I was always upset that he only had "boy" minifigs, basic square guys. When my parents bought me my own…

Yeah, I think that might be part of it, but Mr. B has been complaining about this more over the past couple years, and he's been wearing slimmer, grown up fits for the past ten years or so. Another commenter shared this with me: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/mens-fas…

Yeah, jumping in here as an Asian-American who has discussed this extensively with native Korean friends, this is NOT about looking "white" as in "European." The beauty standard for many in East Asian countries is pale, pale skin. One can argue that western beauty standards have permeated over there in other ways, but…

Yeah, I don't think that they mean "white" in the American sense either.

Your assumptions sound reasonable and well founded. Get out, you don't belong here.

I'm pretty sure they're talking about white as in skin color rather than white as in Caucasian. Asian society has been emphasizing white skin as a beauty standard for CENTURIES. Impossible beauty standard, yes. Bad English translation, yes. Racism? Questionable.

Maybe that's because you don't understand that more often than not a certain outcome is not directly the result of the factors that go into it. This study says kids being raised by homosexual couples are happier. It's simplistic to assume that's because gays are just inherently better when there are a million other…

I can see why distribution of household tasks and parenting might be more equitable with same sex partners, but I also think a major factor in why their kids do measurably better is the fact that same sex couples have to be proactive and have their shit together to become parents in general, while that is not…

I was speaking to a woman in Moscow and she was taken aback that she had never learned that the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. She was always taught the US randomly chose Japan to test out nuclear weapons on because we were trying to beat the Russians. She was college educated and her father was a government…

I'm American, and was born in 1984, and knew about the Challenger disaster. Having never seen this particular picture before, though, I had no idea what it was until I read the article. It was an unfortunate mistake, but people need to loosen the hell up.

another expat here, and my French wife recognized this photo immediately....but we're both old enough to remember when it happened. i think age plays a bigger factor than nationality in this case, but i absolutely get the point you're making.

I just meant you're (meaning people in general) either going to recognize the image or not. I don't see why this is being used as an example that millenials are a bunch of ignorant morons. I know of the Challenger diaster, but to be honest this picture looked like any indiscernible photo of smoke, maybe even clouds…

Yeah. I just showed the same image to both of my baby boomer parents who were around to remember 1986 and the Challenger diaster and neither one of them knew where it was from. So I guess the term "iconic" is kind of subjective.

Same as me: Kiwi who was 2 when the accident happened. I wouldn't have known that one. On the other hand, as someone who is part of the Commonwealth I knew that a lot of people in the UK (particularly mining areas like the NE as well as Scotland) hated Thatcher, whereas a lot of Millennial (and even non-Millennial)…

And that's you being Canadian, where media very closely follows American politics anyway... I would bet this student isn't Canadian. There are tons more international students from say, China, India, Southeast Asia... I'd bet they study more major things about America like the Revolutionary War or (more recently)…

Hell, I am American and have never seen this picture before, even though I was aware of the event itself. I think maybe these "iconic" images are less well-known than people want to believe.

Agree. As a Canadian I have never seen this image (at least not enough times to recall it) and at 7 years old the Challenger explosion was not once mentioned in my school, nor ever after that straight through university. Sure I've heard of the explosion but only because of American media dominance. My ignoramus mind…