As the reviewer said, it was fine at the time to point out that there were nice white people. But because for so long black stories have been told with a white person focus, it's valuable that the stories can be told more honestly now without having to create an unrealistic number of sympathetic white characters.

I do think that there is quite a bit of difference between technological progress and cultural progress, the latter is slower and less linear, unfortunately. Even when there are laws ( a good place to start) it doesn't immediately change attitudes; just because it's illegal to ask doesn't mean employers don't try to…

I have a hard time finding any "really bad stuff" in drag, and I've given it a lot of thought (as a woman, a feminist, and a big drag fan.) I do think it celebrates the feminine to a degree but also mocks it, but I think that's good. There is nothing inherently good or bad about femininity or masculinity and we all…

Indeed, we get asked fairly often. We met on OkCupid, as fuck buddies. So we tell most people we met online and that's totally fine these days (and I believe it would apply to all hook up apps, very few people ask which site unless they themselves are dating and trying to meet someone, I find) and then the amount of…

Hah yes. And I think so often the narrative is the husband (usually) is super horny 24/7 and begging for the sex and the woman has to relent which, sure, I guess happens, but isn't always the deal. Luckily for us, my husband and I have similar libidos (which have mellowed considerably with time) and it's not anyone…

While I've never had "joyless" sex, I've had sex for "maintenance" that I wasn't personally clamoring for but that I end up enjoying. I've been with my husband monogamously for 8ish years and while we're very in sync sexually, sometimes I'm just not dying to bone but know it would be good for maintaining our sexual…

"Hasn't taken a break to have children" seems to be the key income inequality issue. I don't know what to do about it either, I'm a woman but I don't want kids so it's not my personal issue. But as feminist I can't ignore it. Women who want biological kids have little choice but to take some leave to birth a baby,…

I'm not saying Jon H. Ryan is suddenly bae or anything but those glasses really do him wonders!

It also made me think of how Kenneth thinks the C word is "cranky Sue."

I thought it was pretty hilarious, and like you said, just making a totally different point than the Celebrity Interview sketch (which was more about "cool girl" posturing and trying to be whatever men think is hot than anything else, closer to the Madonna/Whore sketch last episode really.) It wasn't he most creative…

Crazy to think she was suffering from PPD either before during or right after having to do some pretty intense acting like someone with PPD.

That would have made the scene a little better so it showed her starting to get out of the situation on her own and then Deacon coming in as back up.

Yeah, I think that's a case of trying to find offence where there is none. I'm a little foggy now but Maddie losing her virginity was pretty chill, right? All I remember is she started writing slightly edgier songs and overall thinking the show wasn't taking away her sexual agency or anything. If she had been down to…

Even though it was so DUH that Maddie would go with Deacon, I was still super happy to see the fam back together! And as iffy as the whole Cash/emancipation storyline was (really needed them to spell out Cash's deal a little more, it was an awful elaborate plan to snatch Maddie from her family and then ride her…

I mostly agree with everything you said but DEFINITELY with on Glen and Bucky who I am still not sure I could confidently identify who was who in lineup.

I'm not an ex-friender and it bugs me, seems like a reasonable thing. But all my major relationships were really intense breakups, with periods of trying to be friends, then dramatically getting back together, trying to be friends again, and then one of us not being able to hack it (due to residual feelings.) So a…

Indeed. If someone explicitly says "I've always been *gender they transitioned into* so please refer to me retroactively as that gender and my new name" okay, sure, I'm all about honoring what people prefer. But as I mentioned above, I have an abusive ex who's trans now and there's no way I'm going to tie my brain in…

Yes! I have an abusive ex girlfriend who is a trans man now. I've never known them as a man (they moved far away and I only know through mutual friends who follow the ex on facebook) so I've never thought twice about calling them "her" in the past tense. And yeah, I'm not going to never talk about her again either, it…

Whether or not she's a millennial, she just needs to try and get along. I have a lot of radical, lefty ideas but I can get along with my husband's Arkansas Church of Christ family just fine because I focus on safe subjects and, even if I think it's fucked, I help in the kitchen even if it isn't expected of my husband.…

I really enjoy your professional insight into this. And I'm sure you don't want to/can't go deep into the details of such cases. But do you think that maybe thinking "someone wasn't fully convicted of a sex crime" is cold comfort, since it is hard to prosecute sex crimes when there is "her word against his" situations…