Yes! Thank you for saying that. It is admirable that you are able to look at your life and yourself with honesty and understanding.

I really struggle with her. On the one hand, she didn’t actively participate in any of the murders by physically stabbing/shooting anyone. But, from my understanding, she was there, it doesn’t seem like she objected, she helped gather the supplies for that night, and she never reported them. It’s easy to say ‘it…

I appreciate how thoughtful this response this, and I definitely understand your argument. I think that we perhaps have different approaches to the criminal justice system/crime in general, which may be where our disagreement stems from. But I’m always happy to debate someone knowledgable and well spoken.

WOW. Thanks for that. Get back to me when you’re a drug addled fragile 19 year old lured into a cult by a charismatic man spouting alluring ideology who ends up as a despot. I’m not saying you or I would do what the Manson girls did, but I am saying that we have NO way of knowing what we would have done. We all love…

Honestly I’m not really trying to make a point, just that I think you misunderstood Lady Yuck’s argument. Comparing those who have murdered and those who have not is just sort of a sticky situation because we all have different life paths and circumstances, and I think it can only be fair to do so between people of…

The girls had X’s on their foreheads. Manson, in prison post-crimes, etched the swastika on his head.

The book certainly makes you pause to think about the state of mind Van Houten was in and the manipulation she faced. Puts you in the mind of a lost teen/20-something girl.

That’s not really a fair argument. The point is that, given the right circumstances, most of us would do similar things as those we deplore, not that we are in similar circumstances and don’t.

I LOVE JoJo, but it’s totally insane that the songs on her first album were fairly sexual. She was THIRTEEN and one of her lyrics was “Come with me, stay the night, say the words but boy it don’t feel right...” Thirteen year olds are straight up not staying the night, unless they are talking about a slumber party.…

Woah there, I was like 5 yrs old. This is a fairly ridiculous and somewhat mean response to an innocuous comment. Evaluate your choices, my friend.

This picture reiterates the fact that I want nothing more than to be a good dancer. Alas, my childhood dance teacher, a former NFL cheerleader, was mean to me because I was the only in the class who couldn’t do the splits... So I HAD to quit, obviously. Now I am doomed to avoiding any and all dancing scenarios.

Not necessarily overrepresentation, but it does seem like the Academy is more willing to include films about slavery.

lol okay love that opinion is becoming fact. Look at some of my other replies (just being lazy and don’t want to retype)... I’m not intending to argue that it’s a great movie.

More palatable than what? Definitely not trying to argue palatability, just that there are stories not about slavery that have been told that have not been rewarded. I definitely get that Straight Outta Compton isn’t everyone’s favorite - it wasn’t mine to be honest. But I think that it absolutely compares to much of…

In some ways, no, but the fact that the Oscars consistently rewards biopics/films about ‘real’ white people shows its hypocrisy. SOC might not have the best film ever made, but I thought it definitely compared to many of ‘white movies’ rewarded. I mainly think that Hollywood is uncomfortable praising movies where…

Straight Outta Compton should/could have been it, but it was of course shut out.

Wow that makes me feel things about Beyond The Lights that I didn’t want to feel.

You are so, so right. THIS DOES NOT COUNT AS DIVERSITY, OSCARS! Obviously looks like a great film that should be rewarded, but I am not looking forward to the self-congratulatory Hollywooders thinking they have done well for heaping praise on a film starring/directed by/produced by black people.... about slavery.

Very true that I assumed that, I have no idea the racial makeup of this project. I don’t 100% agree with your assessment of Whiteness studies. Perhaps the classes and lectures are “diverse,” but I have found that most published works on whiteness are by white people. As an academic field, it is rather ironically…

I guess I’m confused as to why this in response to my post but... It seems pretty basic that the issue with a White History Month is essentially that every month is about white history. Like, 95% of the history learned in school is about white people and things they have done, but their race is never really mentioned…