You may have been joking about festive menstrual cups, but:

Yeah, that's usually the case in these types of shoots, but, uh...did you see these photos?

This is an interesting analysis, but I really disagree with your statement that Anne's "attachments go way beyond those of normal early twentieth century homosocial behavior." Her relationship with Diana fits pretty much perfectly into 19th century standards of romantic female friendships. It's certainly possible to…

Yes, I did click through to Codeswitch—I'm usually a big fan of theirs, but unless there's compelling evidence that wasn't mentioned, I'm still not convinced. The gap between ice cream parlors playing popular songs during minstrelsy's heyday and the invention of musical ice cream trucks post-WWII is pretty large. I'll…

I would love to see some kind of evidence that that's true, but I'm skeptical.

Obviously minstrelsy had a big impact on American culture, but to say that "most of America's musical culture was founded" on it is absurd. Minstrel shows didn't exist until the mid-nineteenth century; most folk songs have roots going back hundreds of years before that.

No, they aren't, and Oh Susanna! isn't even really a folk song. It was one of the dozens of minstrel songs written by Stephen Foster. And most minstrel songs don't actually have much, if any, racial content in their lyrics—the racism came from the context in which they were performed.

To Francis Darwin? Because that makes us distantly related too! Hello, internet cousin! (Also, awesome/beautiful work.)

Psst—it's Frances Darwin.

Well, it's not like that particular sentence is actually wrong. Taken all together this thing is so much offensive horseshit, but fertility treatments and adoption expenses are tremendously expensive and frequently unsuccessful.

Dammit, that makes her seem sympathetic.

You know what, you're right, I over-reacted. I apologize. Seeing that the OP was complying with (I believe unconstitutional?) regulations changes things. However, I still feel like the underlying message that's being taught here is that you should only have to justify your beliefs and actions if you are going against…

Did he really promise that? I'm kind of surprised that even candidate!Obama would go that far.

And you're a shitty teacher.

Personally, I always carry whips with me whenever I think I might encounter a service worker. They need to know who's in charge here! No lowly servant-class member should be able to get food or housing unless they can bring me my fries in under 60 seconds, walking on their knees.

I guess I agree about the pretension of writing your name in lowercase letters, but Wikipedia tells me it was her grandmother's name—that doesn't seem particularly pretentious to me. Lots of people have pen names and or adopt new names.

It's not even that novel to white women—what do you think "bustles" on nineteenth century dresses were trying to do?

I didn't make that number up; look it up. Yes, working 80 hours a week for a terrible boss is probably harder than school for most people, but that isn't most people's experience of work, either. A slave working 20 hours a day in the fields has it harder than you, but you're still allowed to complain.

And so do most college students. 80% of them are working, too.

Yes, who doesn't proofread a joke Craigslist post a half dozen times?