Sharing my thoughts as a (white) manager who always makes a concerted effort to hire POC and women. Recognizing my privilege, and using it to try and effect change isn’t “mercy.” My hope is that those POC and women will rise through the ranks of the organization, and be in a better position, over time to make similar…

If we white people are responsible for putting minoritized people in this situation, isn’t it also our responsibility to fix it? I acknowledge that the fix should come from studio execs not devaluing people because of skin color and gender, but that seems like it is going to be a long fight. Shouldn’t us white people…

Look at this way, the reason everyone on Friends made the same amount of money and so MUCH money is because they negotiated their contracts as a team. That’s what needs to happen: If you want “us” you pay us this much. Jessica C. didn’t rescue her, they’re friends, they partnered and backed each other up.

Is it bad that I sometimes mix up Jessica Chastain and Bryce Dallas Howard? I really do like both of them, I just can’t always tell which is which.

You see what happened when Mo’Nique tried to do it on her own (yes, her way was ill-advised and janky but she is just as right about wage disparities as the white women but that didn’t stop folks (a lot of them black) from clowning her). The way she was treated left me feeling some kind of way, also,

I’m under 40 and I’ve liked it since I was a kid. It’s very dry humor but I think it’s hilarious.

What he looks like is Grumpy Cat as a human.

I honestly don’t understand. I’m under 60, live in Los Angeles, have been a punk and a headbanger, love the sun, hate the cold, and live for the movies, but I loved The Prairie Home Companion and all the stories about Lake Wobegon. I loved the radio shows, the noir adventures, the bizarre stories that never ended up…

My family listened to it, too - I really agree with that description, because one isolated show would make no sense, but it became something unique week to week. I also heard some interesting music on there, from Iris DeMent to Renee Fleming. (Also some really weird stuff. Idk why he ever thought he was that great at…

Well, my childhood is now totally fucked.

I really liked it. I grew up in the Midwest with grandparents who listened to it. The conceit was that it was an old Depression era radio show that had somehow hung on for all these years, and it was sort of boring and sort of dull in a way that leaned into those traits for humorous effect. Listening to one show…

Many, many Twin Cities musicians participated on that show, and rehearsals were often at Keillor’s home. Every new female participant was warned to not find herself in a room alone with him.

I haven’t even read this story yet but I know if a man told me he “accidentally put his hand up a woman’s shirt” I would know right then and there he was lying.

If we set this precedent then every single straight couple should be forced to prove paternity. this was not a child adopted or convieved before the couple was married, they were a legally married couple who had a child within the confines of the marriage. for all other maried couples they would not be asked how they…

There is definitely a legal path around it. The issue the lawsuit is trying to correct is the fact that the parents here shouldn’t have to go through an expensive adoption process when they are already the parents on the birth certificate.

That is exactly how I recruited Michael.

‘“Parents and other caregivers must protect black children from subtle messaging that their lives don’t matter,” Walker wrote.’

It is prudent to remember as adults then when we were teenagers, suicide rates were high for that era. The stress and mental anguish we went through was unique for the timing because the country was not used to examining the plight of children deal with traumatic issues (the effects of the crack era, gang wars, broken…

Let’s not forget that the Clotilde story was mostly considered a pulp fiction myth until a black woman scholar (building on Hurston) did the hard work of verifying its actual existence.

This fucking thing should be dug up, restored and preserved as well as is possible, and put in the town square where the statue of Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, or some other “confederate hero” is honored.