I have never seen nor heard of such a thing. Are you part of some Lost Tribe of white folks who wandered in the desert until even the most basic ancestral recipes were forgotten?
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Woohoo, stayed up late enough on a Sunday night for the Sign-off! I posted this earlier today in the Saturday Night Social, but imma post it again here:
Oh sweetie, no.
Well, Flint's a disaster, but Detroit...the bankruptcy gets all the national headlines, but those stories miss the land rush and new biz surge that started pretty much the moment that bankruptcy was declared. Municipal bankruptcy is designed to establish a floor below which the city will not sink; once various moneyed…
dude, it's CHEAP to live here compared to most states.
I've left my kids in the car for a couple of minutes if I am going somewhere I can see them, and with the air conditioning running. And my youngest is 4. Quick, someone call CPS!
There is a world of difference between people who forget their child while heading into work—and that is something that I understand and fear—and those who run into a store for five minutes. The Weingarten piece is about people whose routines are changed in just a tiny way, while the Brooks piece is about someone who…
Thank you. I don't want to live in a world where people are calling the cops on each other just in case. Use your common sense!
It makes no sense to compare what Brooks did with the people profiled in Weingarten's excellent piece. They are completely different scenarios, and it undercuts your argument to put them in the same league. Regardless, I have no problem whatsoever with what Brooks did. You don't need to "tell everyone it's totally OK…
Religious question: Does anyone else believe that even if you're going to Hell, you will still have at least a 6 hour layover in Atlanta?
It's the closed eyes in a couple of the portraits that get me skeezed out. WHY ARE THEIR EYES CLOSED?!?
I think it's the hands resting on the wombs that does it
This is EXACTLY how I see it too. How on Earth can the mothers of these children not be like 'yeah, wait a sec.... stop.' And if not for their own child, for other children. Like, if I didn't know those men were those girls' fathers, I'd think something extremely illegal was going on here.
As the mother of a daughter, not the sort of poses I'd like to see my husband strike with her either. They are creepy and weird and the photographer lame-ass quote about this being the girls' idea and their dads just want to protect them is an idiot.
YUP. They totally look like child brides. AND I'm super skeeved/annoyed that anyone would ask (what looks like) an 8 year old little girl to "pledge her purity" to her father. FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE. Talk about letting a kid be a kid.
It's not just you. Just thinking of posing with my own dad this way is skeeving me out.
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Maybe it's just me, but all I can see are child brides in their wedding portraits. Those poses are super creepy and couple-y. Not how I looked when I posed with my dad at my wedding, or any pictures. Ergh.
Fixed it for you.