I love the dress. So simple, and for a celeb of her status, I think that's really interesting. Also it totally reminds me of this.
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Public schools are based in neighborhoods— you get assigned to one depending on where you live. So changing schools would involve an entire family picking up and moving to a new town, or in some rural areas, county.
I certainly won't argue with you there, and he's lost my defense at this point. But really, no one tends to respond at their best when they're being called "stupid asshole" on the internet. (Which is probably the "TL;DR" summary of my previous post.)
I'm not denying that a lot of the things he said were problematic, by any means. But I find the knee jerk reaction to problematic/offensive things, particularly on the internet, is to get aggressive and start conflict, which never (particularly without a face-to-face interaction) works to educate or change minds. …
Yeeeees, I read that the first time you wrote it, so I'm not sure why you felt the need to quote yourself as though I hadn't. If you would like me to repeat myself in return, I will. But I will respond to you just as I did before— I don't think he was disrespectful or rude at that point.
I don't think he was being rude to ask questions. Once everyone was on the same page, Kat seemed fine with answering his questions— the point of this column, as far as I can tell, is educating people who may not be aware of the intricacies of being LBGTQ+, and answering questions is part of educating.
Are you outside the USA? I'm NYC-based myself and it's strangely easy to forget that the rest of the world isn't usually as welcoming. I'm glad you have the internet to be welcoming though!
My friend, if you're going to call someone out for asking questions, how do you expect them to learn anything? Ignorance is only a sin if it's willful.
I think the fact you seem to recognize the holes in your knowledge, are trying to be educated, and trying to be respectful of the people concerned while doing it is a good thing. Ignore the people trying to pick a fight, some people won't settle for anything less than instantly perfect, and we're none of us that.
It's from 10 Things I Hate About You! Alison Janney is the counselor, to boot.
I'm not sure what you think I was trying to say here. As far as I'm aware, I was being very reasonable, and I'm rather taken aback by your vitriol.
Frequently the legal definition of "rape" requires penetration of some kind. (In some areas, it's even specific to penis-in-vagina— so manual penetration or anal penetration wouldn't even legally classify.) So it's possible that unless she actually sodomized the child, and potentially even then, it wouldn't legally be…
I work high end fine dining in New York City, and every place does it.
WUT.
It's not about the individual being 100% honest, it's about the company. Most businesses, including restaurants, accept credit cards these days. Most of my tips are charged to a credit card. Those *have to be* declared by the restaurant. It'd be pretty obvious if they didn't. So generally speaking, 95% of your tips…
sooooo, we asked someone in the financial industry— the industry which explicitly makes its money off fees from people not understanding the terms of their loans/card agreements/mortgages— about the value of teaching kids financial literacy? Isn't that the equivalent of asking a fox about the relative merits of…
At my last job, saying "I'm gonna tell HR!" was a literal joke that we made to each other, openly. Because the HR dept (one lady) was such a drunk hot mess of a human that she herself should have been in trouble with HR on the regs. Why, yes, this was also the place with the frat-boy, in-club mentality that I've…
There's no "right" or "wrong" about how you choose to live your life to be happy, and that includes your sexuality.
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