I life in Peru. I understand the worry, but at the same time I’m optimistic about this. Peru has changed a lot since the 1990s, and while the governments of the last 10 or so years have not been perfect, they have made a lot of positive changes.

Rather horribly, in Peruvian culture sterilization of men is considered emasculating in a way that sterilization of women is not. Men here would not for the most part ever dream of getting a vasectomy, because it would rob them of their masculinity. Birth control is overwhelmingly the responsibility of women, and not…

Were you here (I live in Peru) while Fujimori’s government was in power? Provided you were using local tour agencies and transportation and so on, it’s probably more accurate to say that you were contributing to the financial welfare of victims of that terrorism.

To quote Cracked - “not pictured: sparkles.”

Ha! Well, there are definitely those who are opposed to the blanket because of the racist nature of the fur trade and colonial conquest, so it’s okay to still be irritated if you want ;)

Me too - I didn’t even know about Pendleton’s before, and it sounds like one could probably find links between them and HBC going back to before the Oregon boundary dispute (my husband jokingly calls Washington State “occupied Canada”). Interesting stuff!

Originally the HBC blankets were made in England, and according to Wikipedia the authentic ones still are. However, it appears that Pendleton’s does have a contract with HBC to make some of their other point blanket patterned merchandise. It’s just really weird, as a Canadian, to see it referred to as anything other…

Hudson’s Bay Company blankets have been around since the early days of the fur trade, and are either beloved by Canadians as iconic of our nation’s roots or reviled as a symbol of colonialism - but this Pendleton company has definitely latched onto them. It’s kind of hilarious that an American company can blithely…

Yeah, IDK what a Pendleton is, but that’s an HBC blanket.

Gold star, you.

As a Canadian, and one only a few years younger than Trudeau Jr (as I tend to think of him), I was highly skeptical for reasons similar to your own. It also left a bad taste in my mouth when he initially acted like he wasn’t interested in following in his father’s footsteps, and kind of did that “oh, no, I wouldn’t…

Yeah, I’d like everyone to stop talking about the bangability of our PM and focus on the job he’s actually doing.

And a bona fide astronaut as our transport minister - Marc Garneau.

I’m always nervous when the audience starts to clap along when I’m performing, because often they’ll clap on the downbeat instead of the backbeat, which can mess with the rhythm of the song. And that’s assuming they don’t start clapping the wrong rhythm all together, or they slow down or speed up - clapping along is…

I’m glad someone’s on my team. I know people think it’s overreacting to object to “vagina” as synonymous with “vulva”, but I have my reasons to object!!

That’s how it is with me and my guy, only the opposite. I would like to go down more and he’s not really into it, so I feel like I’m doing something wrong - but he swears I’m not.

My guy loves going down but isn’t into receiving, which I’ve struggled with because I like doing it, and I have worried that he doesn’t want me to because I’m not good at it (we’ve been together forever and I don’t have much experience in this area other than with him). He swears that it is because he feels less…

Wait, did you hear about it from me? That happened to me.

If JujyMonkey is significantly older than Grande, there’s nothing infantilizing about the use of “kiddo” - it’s just a recognition of the fact that Grande is a young person, and it was used in a generally respectful statement.

You caught me!