I agree, I’ve been disappointed too. White privilege is a hell of a drug.

People are definitely apathetic. I’ve been working with my local SURJ chapter since November, membership has been dwindling all summer. We had a bump in attendance the meeting after C’ville, but it has dropped off since. The apathy is intense, especially when it comes to fighting the systemic.

Yikes, she read the material and wanted that part??

NOPE. This summer I tried to be a stay-at-home mom and also research and lesson plan (I’m a professor). It was impossible. My daughter is now in full-time daycare and I am very happy about it.

Please please please be Kenny.

I’m frankly shocked by how many people are defending these prices. I get it, they could afford $295. But most people in this majority poor, majority black city could not. They clearly want to hold the meeting in Detroit for the optics and hip cache, without engaging with local activists or the realities of life for…

Yes, and many music festivals are also exorbitant. This will be prohibitively expensive for many people. Including many of the Detroit activists I know. So fine, they are they just planning to show up to a mostly poor, mostly black city and have very little engagement with the local activist community?

I’ve never paid more than $125 for any 3-day work conference. It’s going to impact who can come and who even wants to come, which will impact how intersectional discussions will be.

All I know is that the activist circles I run in in Detroit (albeit working on issues of racial inequality and police brutality more than gender inequality) were already pretty skeptical of the Women’s March. Folks who can afford $295 plus travel expenses, hotels, etc. are not working class folks. So even if there ARE…

As a Detroit resident I’m always thrilled when people come to the city, learn more about its present and past, see how dynamic it is, and spend their money here. But $295?!?!?!?!?

I agree, it reminds me of the manufactured drama with Vanessa last season, they have to make it look like Peter is having 2nd thoughts so his win is less obvious. She just wants to bang Bryan, he’ll be next to go.

Tiffany Haddish is so goddamned charming. I can not more highly recommend her appearance on Talk Show the Game Show. She unleashed a tsunami of charisma on everyone in the studio. I’m surprised they didn’t just cancel the show right then and there because no one can ever slay harder than she did. I want her to star in…

I hadn’t been into Eric at all (Personal trainer? No thank you) until this episode. When he was talking with Rachel during the 3 on 1 about how she works so hard and does’t give herself enough credit I, like all Type-A women across America watching, SWOONED. You could just see her thinking “I feel seen.” Peter is…

I’m sorry for your loss. “Polycule” is the sweetest way I’ve ever heard a poly relationship described.

I think he has a secret bet going with someone (maybe satan?) to see if he can reach a 0% approval rate.

I lived with an elderly woman (who happened to be Francois Mitterand’s sister!) who did not want the students using the kitchen at all. I had a minifridge and a toaster in my room.

When I studied abroad in Paris I had a sink in my bedroom but the toilet was down the hall with a very odd bath tub, no shower, no sink. It always struck me as very unsanitary to have to walk down the hall to wash my hands.

The Americans are always fucking outraged by the tiny fridges, I love it with a passion.

Yes, because people can only do the show once they’re under contract on a specific house they often have to find ludicrously nitpicky reasons to critique the other two options. “I want a house in the woods but I HATE trees.” “I love really old houses but I want a 10 car garage and a 1000 square foot master bath.”

Our realtor also suggested we do House Hunters as we closed, thus spoiling any illusions of that show being real. he wanted to highlight the hot housing market in Detroit, and he found it charming that I was house hunting on crutches. We said no because 1) the show makes all the women look like nags and 2) we were…