Basically teacher was getting the info she gave to principal Dixon, plus trying to find out why Evy didn't tell anyone else. The answer was that Evy saw what happened to Taylor when he reported unwanted touching to school authorities, tho not in those exact words. My best memory of exact words is above in reply to…

Sorry, got interrupted so many times I forgot to give you what they said. From memory so not exact.
Teacher: "Evy, you have to trust me and tell me what happened. Did the boy touch you?
Evy: Yes.
Teacher: Mr. Dixon asked you about what happened?
Evy looked really sad, sighed & shoot her head "no,"
Teacher: Why didn't you…

Check her out at the Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards toasting Tracee Ellis Ross(if it repeats on OWN). I had never seen her as herself, all sweetness. Every role I'd seen her in verged on the angry black woman stereotype or was super serious. There she looked like a rom com leading lady.

Having been there, I don't think she was nonchalant but rather used to having to take care of herself AND not wanting to be indebted to a protector/knight in shining armor who will want to be "thanked."

Yes, the point was that Evy felt comfortable communicating with her in a way she didn't with Principal Dixon, but kind of a cheap shot to make it about their shared language/culture instead of that the principal didn't listen to her or show any sympathy toward her or offer her any help. Evy is fluently bilingual &…

They were not sexual because they were mildly violent—trying to restrain someone who does not want to be touched by you & you are not in a relationship with & who tells you to leave them alone. In the same way, rape is not sexual either but violence.

Yes, he grabbed her & she pulled away. When I was in school we never would have reported this and handled it ourselves just like Evy. So sad to think that it would still be that way.

There are degrees of tribalism and very different kinds of tribes with very different values and rules, just as cultures and families within them vary in their customs & ethics. And happily nowadays we can learn about all the past current & possible future permutations because info is so easily available. Women whose…

Nina Simone felt and said she suffered in her life and career because she didn't look like Lena Horne or Dorothy Dandridge. Her bitterness was part of her personality in life(2 degrees of separation) and her art(fortunate enough to see her in concert). She was riveting, brilliant, striking and beautiful to me but she…

Thanks. I find myself often saying "stereotyping" & over-explaining probably, like that not all Asians fit the "model minority" stereotype and suffer doubly due to the expectations( and would insert my nieces as examples). My purpose would be to get the other person thinking, build bridges not label, etc,. but …

What language do you use for mainstream corporate approved condescension/stereotyping & otherwise ignoring Asians by far from 19 year old host who was anointed as the arbiter of what is and is not racist by The Acadamy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences?

One more of many examples of how it's all about him and his 15 championship banners & excellence in building masculine character. it's all about him. He was blind to the need for a Gay Straight Alliance at his school before the rape, allowed annual parties well known for turning out high school girls in a haze of…

All great questions, and it is weird that all the parents react to marijuana use as if it were heroin, even the one who has used it herself & knows what her daughter took must be predictable, not some adulterated superstrain like Meg Whitman warned us about("The marijuana today is not like the marijuana of the 60s").…

Thanks. I saw him on tv talking about how he asked MJ, etc. & didn't realize he didn't have to. That was early on in his career . For years now I'd guess he's gotten pitched by folks who want the validation/publicity of being parodied by him!

Threatening to expose her lies about him to Josh, Valenica & Greg so that Valencia would be vindicated & Josh's lingering queasiness from the housebreak lies scenario turned to actual nausea is straight out blackmail! Emotional blackmail! Don't know if asking for sex as a condition of blackmail fits a legal def or if…

Yes, closed captioning wildly variable in quality & the cleverer punnier or quicker the line, the less likely the captioner will get it. When Margaret Cho is on a talk show, the captioner leaves out parts of even her SFW comments like they just gave up—not even a best guess like your example.They just skip whole…

There's a whole profession of people who work on choosing & getting permissions for using snippets of songs on tv & in the movies & they sometimes mention trying to balance costs and/or how the managers for a particular song refuse permission automatically. I've even heard Weird Al talking about getting permission…

Or it could happen next week…

but it's a contemptuous self-hating kind of love

Sam, do you mean that Sarah is a Texan of Persian and Spanish ancestry? That's Caucasian! The Spanish colonized many indigenous peoples in the Americas but Spain itself is European. It's like calling the British not Caucasian because they imposed their language & religions on Africa.