Here’s a tip from a dog lover for people who don’t own dogs. There were some basic mistakes by the players in this video. The dog is scared. If you are seen as a threat, the dog will not come. Don’t jog up to it and expect it not to cower when you clumsily grasp at it. Just wait for it to approach you while your hand…

To be and not to be!

“There. NOW, this sport that pays millions of dollars to 320 pound supermen to run full speed at each other in an attempt to stop the other, will finally be safe.
We’ve done it!”

I can only speak for myself, but this “simplistic crap” does strike me as wrong-headed, not to mention culturally and racially blinkered. It’s certainly not the only instance of reimagining imperialism as the happy meeting of cultures (Americans celebrate Thanksgiving every year, after all), but when an opportunity…

Even calling it “Commonwealth” or somesuch would be a big step in a better direction.

The thing that drives me crazy about modern claims of authenticity are that they almost inevitably ignore how fast and loose the actual people cooking stuff back in the day were about their ingredients. You get people who insist that this dish can never have that ingredient, but if you could go back in a time machine,…

Why would a black person want to eat in a restaurant that didn’t want to serve him?

Because their mother is their father. It’s very confusing for them. For too many, it takes too long to reconcile their actual lives with what society expects them to be.

Your comment suggests that we have not come that far at all.

I have a friend who’s really gorgeous, like, shockingly beautiful. She came to me crying once because, yet again, some professional colleague attempted to turn their working relationship into a sexual one. It wasn’t as aggressive as this piece of work here, but it happened again, as it had happened so many times…

BUT HOW HUMAN BE MORE THAN ONE IDENTITY SAME TIME? HOW WOMAN HAVE THOUGHTS? WHY WOMAN SPEAK? HOW IS BABBY FORMED? HOW MY NAME ANCIENT EMPEROR? TRUMP2016!

Yes, a history of HER WORLD, a world that already has completely re-written history to suit its own needs. It’s fiction. Not history. Fiction. This distinction doesn’t seem to go through your head.

It is not the fault of a story that it leads to shallow imitations or how it is used later.

It’s “wrong” in terms of being incorrect. It’s appropriation... which can be done respectfully and in an informed way... but she doesn’t even bother to correctly reference the things she’s referring to.

you irl

Holy shit, where to start? Actually, I’m just going to leave most of this alone, and focus on two points:

(1) The Skinwalkers are not considered fictional by the tribes. They are “real” to them as Jesus Christ is to Christians.

“Also... I mean seriously internet? Haven’t you better things to be offended over? Why are we trying to hold Harry Potter lore to some semblance of historical accuracy? It’s a damned fantasy novel set in a fantasy Earth where magic is real...”

No.

If your going to set a fictional world within the confines of actual history, it has to actually make sense within the confines of actual history.