We can slice amys words to pieces, but we know what she meant, and I we all know that not performing for the male heterosexual eye probably does hurt female performers. It makes sense.

Cops.

You know where Trump would go with this. :(

I feel like the romance was like ‘eh’. It’s been a while since I watched the first season but I feel like that’s an accurate description. I don’t think it was necessary to the show, really.

We get almost all our oil from ourselves, Canada, and south of the border. Relatively little of our oil comes from the Middle East. If we bought nothing from them, they would just sell it to the French, Chinese, Indians, and so on.

He wasnt held captive though.

I hear ya, but was he really trapped? He moved several states West by himself before Dolly, and he moved around the house at pleasure.

Well sounds like Mr. Oesterreich’s land got annexed by his neighbor up north. Worked out about the same, too.

Omg I never realized how much I want to watch a gender bent Jane Eyre.

Her storyline has been pretty blah in the last season (the first few seasons, she was a superstar with so many hot guys to choose from. Now she’s a married businesswoman dealing with her dramatic daughters. Not the same energy). I definitely get the vibe that she is ready to move on from her posts and interviews, but…

Pssst: she chose this question and answered it to drum up page views of her advice column by getting rage-happy blogs to write about it.

Any chance Dear Abby writes dumb shit like this on purpose so the controversy reminds people her advice column (and newspapers) still exists?

I don’t know. It may have been a mercy. Abby could have gone on to say, “And he probably raped a bunch of people, because rapists just can’t stop, and it’s all your fault.”

If you take a look at Wallace’s article, he describes a few more AAVE conventions that Trainor uses in the song. It’s not just the dropping of word-final “g” that he’s talking about. It’s a collection of conventions that do, I think, point to borrowing AAVE.

So, the crux of your argument is that if the music is “bad” (as judged by you and/or others...) then the artist is not allowed to draw from black influences or explore black sound... because it’s appropriating black culture to sell “bad music”

And what are y’all gonna do to stop her from singing then?

We’re in the Army and usually do the local public schools, but we did do a Catholic school for two years at one particular base because the local public schools had such a terrible, violent reputation, even at the elementary school level. I had to do a lot of soul searching about that, as my mom was a public school…

Or we could divorce the funding of schools from the property values of where they are located. It makes no sense that School A, enrollment 100 students, receives more money than School B, enrollment 100, just because they happen to be 15 miles (or less) away from each other. Ashleigh and Carolyyn and Aiden aren't more…

I’m not sold on her as an awesome person so much as a talented comedian who happens to champion some of the same issues as me, so maybe?

The Amies and Tina are great because there’s so few mainstream female comedians who pushback on gender issues in legitimately funny ways, but they’re still pretty up their own asses…