I feel like if you took photos of the Warsaw ghetto and replaced every star of David with a crescent, you would have what goes through the republicans’ minds when they talk about Muslims.

Oh that’s my guess too - hoping to point out the absurdity of it :)

Like if it’s that important to you, don’t ask them to dance at all? Did someone demand he dance with this server?

I never saw Greek - I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt that it’s the live studio set up that throws off her timing? Or I’ll admit the material on this show can be a little lazily written, & Loretta & David can overcome that in ways Amber hasn’t learned/can’t pull off yet.

I think they decided to use her as the outsider character, which was an easy trick in the beginning so they could explain where the parents were coming from to another character on the show, & use her different background to set up jokes. That said, yeah, at little lazy on the stereotyping front.

Honestly I may like her personally but she has been consistently terrible on this show. I just think live scripted comedy is not in her skillset? Her timing was off from the very start, & her delivery was just not there yet, especially when you put her next to Loretta Devine and David Allen Grier who can turn shit…

It’s ridiculous - I come from Irish shanty stock on one side, Polish serfdom on the other, but I am so freaking privileged in this country, where everyone just sees me as white unless I tell them about my family tree. That ability to assimilate is the reason why my ancestors’ descendents in the US are all solidly…

The format is so naturally consensual! Some people do sound effects, and some don’t.

Not the only one - I hate the sound on professional porn because the women often overdo it while the men stay silent (ugh) but actual body sounds and genuine grunting/gasps can really put you in the mood.

Also a lurker :) my libido likes amateur stuff, but my brain can’t watch amateur videos without worrying that one of the people in the video doesn’t know it’s online. Audio recordings with just one person in it have so little ambiguity when it comes to consent, which is such a relief.

Just audio - people either reading/acting out fantasies or just straight out masturbating and taping it.

I definitely saw this & thought of those stupid “maybe means yes, yes means anal” bro jokes

I was all those things except athletic and still a virgin in my mid-20s (maybe gorgeous is debatable). Also not Christian, just didn’t prioritize dating or sex for a while.

Honestly I think there’s a way to do it - go through with the interview professionally, as you would with anyone. At the end while wrapping up, casually ask if she would be interested in going out sometime. When she says no, say no problem, thought I’d give it a shot, great interviewing with you. Still potentially…

Counterpoint: While You Were Sleeping

I tell this story every year, but once I stopped for cookies at a booth with a dad and 2 girl scouts. Dad was handling the money, & one of the girls corrected him when he started to give me the wrong change. I was so proud of her!

Yeah but some of these people are new rich. Plus they’re on camera. Joe Biden apparently handed Chris Rock $20 backstage and asked to give it to the girl scouts

The copy editor in me just cringed bodily at that sentence - it’s just so clumsy and makes the reader work to understand what it’s saying. “What he would later become” is just flat out better, more impactful writing... so there’s no excuse to write it *except* to emphasize that the writer *didn’t* believe that’s what…

I get it sometimes as a joke - I’m not a big drinker & a total lightweight, so people will chime in “are you sure you’re Irish?” Or something along those lines. But it’s pretty much the only thing about myself/my personality that gets judged based on my ethnic background. Well that and aversion to spicy foods, but…

Can we put a disclaimer on this article that men about to leave a comment about their breast preferences should just shut up?