The 0riginal Star Trek show was as un-racist and un-sexist as possible for the time and place they were made. They pushed the limits of morality, tried to keep the plots from being obvious black-and-white wrong or right.

Just because her mother’s still alive, doesn’t mean the girl can’t be grieving that her mother either can’t or won’t ever be there for her again. Her entire world just shifted dramatically, she’s having to live with strangers and go to school with strangers, and might never see her family or friends again.

I’ve watched the anime, and for me the weirdest thing is seeing Koro-Sensei (I guess they’re calling him U.T. in English???) move his mouth as he talks. His mouth usually doesn’t move while speaking in the anime, except for facial expressions, although those big pointy teeth do open when he’s laughing or yelling. Or…

Wait, NC requires contraceptives be covered in sex ed? Where the hell was I? I graduated 5 years ago and my only public school sex ed was the “sex is like cake and you wouldn’t give someone a half-eaten cake” stage drama and the “unfocused projector vuvla STD slideshow” where the lady made us all stand up and scream…

“Xthglu, Xthglu, wherefore art thou Xthglu?”

My parents have at times borrowed my car, since it’s legally in my dad’s name and I didn’t need it much on breaks from college. Usually, it’s just a matter of readjusting the seat and thanking them for topping off the gas.

After I graduated high school, my dad made me some different drinks and declared that he wasn’t sending me off to college without either of us knowing my alcohol tolerance. He’d let me try a sip of his various weird beers (blueberry coffee stout, anyone?) and such since I was a kid, and all our little excersize really…

Some friends at college played D&D, and finally got a chance to sit in on one of their games (because I am a morning person who takes 8am classes and literally every other person I know is a night owl). So they start setting up in the student lounge, then one doofus suggests that they try and make it like League of…

But was it really? (I don’t even remember the context for this.)

(I’m white, Biology major, family somehow managing to cling to the lowest edge of what’s left of the Middle Class, gone to mostly-black schools and a mostly-Native American college.)

The old “the best for the job” argument ignores the fact that the U.S. education system is set up so that you have to be from a rich (and, therefore, usually white) family to afford to go to a college that can train you for something as complex as astrobiology. Statistically, sure, only 0.76 of the six are going to be…

Smoking Mirror Blues by Ernest Hogan.

“For every $40 you spend, you get a complementary side of ketchup!”

Imma let you finish, but the Happy Falker Satherhood cake was the best misunderstanding cake.

I’m in the US and I learned that blonde and brunette are female, and blond and brunet are male.

Spot the person who’s never looked through Amazon’s dildo selection. A bright red salami with exaggerated vein details and a photo of a leering man on the packaging... ugh.

It has birth control inputs! My implant makes me so irregular (but so light and crampless!), and my current app is all “what’s your cervical mucous like today?”

There was a privately-owned rescue/zoo that my grandma took me to as a kid (New River Zoo in NC), and a major factor in it closing was a woman who climbed over the fencing and walked up the hillside behind the jaguar exhibit, and sued because the jaguar bit the arm she tried to pet it with. The jaguar had to be…

I read the article, but knowingly putting a false statement as the headline was, in my opinion, made worse by acknowledging it.

GENETS ARE NOT CATS. The genet is a Viverrid, in the civet family, and more related to hyenas and mongooses than cats. This is as stupid as calling a bear a raccoon, or a lemur an ape.