We get it you like Blake but you don’t have to go full Mossy Oak.

I will give it another try based on what you just wrote! I can’t get into gawker.gov and like have been looking for another blog for procrastinating purposes. Maybe I was there during a rough period.

I read a thing about this once. Basically the names are interesting to a generation of Jennifers, Amandas, Jasons and Justins, who grew up with parents named Carol, Deborah, Karen, Cindy, Bill, Paul, etc. They don’t want to name their kids anything from theirs or their parents’ generation cause they all sound boring…

The namers of Neveahs need to go to lleh. It’s not even spelled right.

After google - “Dynasty era” Joan Collins seems to be pretty close.

The Google tells me she cut her hair for her 43rd birthday. I can find no reference to any upcoming acting work. The pic above is from September. I can only conclude that she has lost a bet or pissed off her hair and makeup team.

Agreed, it took me a while to figure out makeup with short hair. Too much and you look like an extra from Dynasty.

Also that haircut is too frilly. Pixie would be better.

I would say she’s playing Kris Jenner in that that Ryan Murphy OJ movie. But that honor went to Selma Blair, so...

It’s for a role, right? It’s gotta be for a role. There is NO WAY she did this IRL on purpose.

I thought Alyssa was Kris Jenner for a sec...honey, no.

I’m for this (with caution). I worked in a Swedish pre-school in a fairly multi-cultural area of Stockholm, and we once had a minor issue when a Dad from a patriarchal society kicked off when he saw his son running around school in a princess dress. (Swedish gender neutrality means not that we don’t have princess…

As the mother of 2 boys, I’m becoming very aware of the weird way we teach them things. At my son’s playgroup a dad got super angry at his son when he got into a tussle with a little girl over a toy. He was yelling “you never hit a girl” at his kid. And I was just thinking “Dude, why not teach him not to hit ANYONE.”

It is targeted towards immigrants, as an effort to establish a baseline level of humanist values, which are already extensively taught in Norwegian schools to kids. They even have grades on that in schools, AFAIK. I’m an immigrant myself here.

Is it weird that I feel like this is okay? Like, it should be taught as part of language classes and middle school classes and to everyone everywhere.

so your problem is with the now obsolete sexual mores of the time, not the song. I don’t have an issue with that, as such. but its important to aim righteous indignation at the right target. the song isn’t about supporting it, its about bucking it.

so since that oppressive system is mostly defeated now, why not…

.... but the subtext is that she DOES want to stay.

I mean that’s basically what the song is about.

Uh, because it makes it clearly not a song about rape, but about overcoming gender expectations to get laid? Should all songs referencing inequality be dismissed as “fucked up” by people unable to judge them in their own time?

I guess I always assumed the joined crescendo at the end, where both sing ‘Baby it’s cold outside,’ implies they agreed. Maybe I’ve watched too many 1940s musicals, but it’s always seemed obvious to me that the woman in the song wanted to ‘stay’ but was unsure what would happen after, and that the man in the song was…

Except she makes if clear that she wants to stay, countering each of her own reasons for leaving with wishing she could stay longer, asking for a drink or cigarette, or planning to “say that she tried” to leave if she faces shit for choosing to stay with him.