That’s good that it doesn’t bother you. I don’t think it would have bothered me too much at another point in my life. But it bothers me now. I think that if a writer is going to traffic in stereotypes it should either add value to the conversation or be really witty. Making fun of Weiner’s nose doesn’t fall into…

I once offered Huma a candy bar. She smiled sheepishly and said "I just had a salad" and motioned her hand over her stomach in a "I am full motion". Her stomach did not look large enough to hold a candy bar.

“I’m going to get a class of poorer kids, most of whom are black, that need a lot of redirection and micro-managing of emotional volatility.”

Wow... So what you’re essentially saying is that you look at a roster of kids’ names, and you assume black names = poor, emotionally unbalanced children who must be strictly…

THANK YOU. A family friend named her friend daughter “Brielle” a few years ago. I hate the name. I think it sounds trashy and kind of ranks up there with trendy names like Bryleigh and stuff, not my taste. But the family friend loves it and so does her husband. Should I have told her that her name sucks and it’s…

Other people have already pointed out why it is causing discomfort that a teacher comes to conclusions about her students based on their names. To extrapolate that to how a teacher might have biases toward children based on ethnicity or race is not a big stretch.

What’s insulting is your fucking prejudice. I hope to all that’s holy you aren’t teaching any more and fucking up any more kids.

Holy shit you should not be a teacher.

It’s not the noticing of the naming trends that is the problem, as others have pointed out to you. It’s the stereotypes that you then form in your mind about people...that you totally don’t act on, of course. (wink)

Except you’re ignoring that most of the names that come around again have classical origins. The person who wrote Legends of the Fall didn’t create the name Tristan. So you really can’t tell whether they liked that movies or they read “Tristan and Isolde” in high school, can you? Your prejudices are your own. I don’t…

I mean I WANT to get excited about this but I’ve been burned before (looking at you Will Ferrel and Krisin Wiig).

Your child’s name can scream “teen mom” or “mcmansion pinterest housewife mom” or “artsy hister mom” or “single mother” or any number of things.

Pictured: the Olsen twins laughing

Well, at this point he only has one option then:

Guess what!?!? You can do both! I have been to the Galapgos Islands!! And I love going to Disneyland. I have been to almost all of the Disney Properties. Tokyo Disney was especially fun for me.

Motherhood takes lots of things.

This should have been shut down within a couple of minutes at most. Unless this is literally a class on “how to be the worst person,” in which case he did a great job.

That don’t mean squat. I have a public facebook profile and I’m not real.

Lol. They are literally punishing children for the “sins” of their parents. Sorry but even if you define homosexuality as a sin, the only sinning these children have done is to have gay parents.

Mr. Inq is the same. He’s done with the LDS church he was raised in, has been for over a decade, yet doesn’t dare make the formal request to be removed from membership rolls because the church will tell his family of the permanent decision and people will lose their shit. So we get visits from missionaries, the relief…

It is punishing people. Did you miss this part, “In addition to classifying same-sex couples as “apostates,” the church’s new policy bars children of those couples—either adopted or biological—from being baptized, confirmed, ordained and participating in mission service without the permission of church leaders.”