2 black characters with little more than 4 episodes total of personal development isn't pretty good. It's about on par with alot of other procedural shows.

I hope, like really HOPE they take a chance to explore the narrow definition of blackness which is something I had to explore as a mixed girl. It seems like a good set up but where they go may really suck. I'll try it.

Yes. I LOVED HIMYM. Like really, you don't know how much that show spoke to me during some pretty dark and stormy nights. However, any wiff of a minority character was stereotyped or almost non-existant. And when they did address it by making a girl for the main lead an absolutely amazing person, they had him freak…

My whole family loves Madea. I have to limit my conversations about Tyler Perry lest I break their hearts over it. Even then, they probably wouldn't get it. As for the why? It's our only continuous flow of anything that remotely looks like us. Where we look like the main actors and probably know at least one person…

Count in the jezebel stereotype of black women. It craps all over any movie I'm watching where one of the maybe 3 whole black characters with names in the movie is the woman creeping in on someone else's husband or is a prostitute (Hello "One for the Money"). WHY?

I'm not blaming the TV shows or games. I'm blaming the parents. You can decide what is appropriate for your kids to watch or play. While my mother took flack for taking me to see Blade she knew I was already mature enough for it by that time because of what I was reading, how I was analyzing it, how I acted around…

Agreed. Game of Thrones or Call of Duty aren't to blame but I find it really disconcerting when I hear that people allow their ten and under children to play those games. Even Lord of the Rings should be held off. I have a 8 year old cousin that always asks to play COD Zombies with me. My younger brother who is 11 now…

It can definitely happen. Especially since it's becoming harder for schools to hold onto teachers and some teachers are getting tenure much earlier as an incentive to stay. Something similar happened to me in my first elementary school. I have ADHD and while my family was in the process of getting me diagnosed…

Me too. I'm a size eleven shoe and a size 20 everywhere else and when Old Navy got rid of their plus size section in all of their stores I was fucked in small town NC. Lane Bryant and Catos were better than the Woman Within Catalogs.

Tube tops suck. They make things look bulgy that weren't apparently bulgy before.

The elementary school photo background is making me hate all of them. It reminds me of class reunion re-shoots. All we need are their 5th grade pictures beside them.

He also has the most normal favorite things of all of them.

I love disclaimers. Especially ones that tell you that the phone is not a real phone. It reminds me of the notes on the display toilets in Ikea that reminds everyone that the bathrooms aren't in fact real bathrooms.

I said they could back off and see what she does. She's a 93 old woman. I'm sure she can't run out to her car, get in, and start it before they could stop her, tackle her, or something. All it would have taken was to get her back turned to you. A person that old couldn't fight a younger person off. Like I said, we'll…

I don't think it's so much false bravery but a question as to what the family thought would happen when they called the police. If she wanted her keys why couldn't he just give her the keys? That doesn't take bravery. It takes common sense. It's the same concept when a person is robbing a store, just give them what…

Or just wait until she takes a nap and take her keys and drive her car somewhere. I would never call the police unless she had fired a shot. Considering the alternative solution, which is them shooting her, I would try to calm her down and let her have her keys. If she tries to go somewhere wait until she turns her…

This is what I was thinking. I could imagine she might have felt threatened by her family or with alzheimer's forgot who her family.

The family calling 911 makes me wonder why she got the gun in the first place. I guess we'll never know.

That was a bitch move. A super duper bitch move.

Lucky. My first college roommate told me after a month of being there that she was glad I had finally made a friend and wasn't in the room as much anymore. She told me to my face that she thought I was suicidal and thought she'd come home to me swinging from the ceiling fan. I was super shy for my first month of…