I think you really nail it - the problem is antisemitism and the offensive, stereotypical and exaggerated depictions of Jewish people. Which seem to be ridiculously accepted, especially if they’re done with a wink.

I get her point, but I do think that she focuses on white American Jewish identity which...is where it steers into murky and perhaps not completely coherent territory?

Ah, so it’s just a brazen use of public office to attract lobby money and build enough contacts to jettison herself into a lobbyist position?

Yeah that’s really bizarre to me as well. I went to uni in Canada and even though it’s more similar to the US (in the sense that students will go to schools really far from their homes, whereas in western Europe they tend to study locally and most people I know live at home while at uni - though I think the UK is…

Yeah as a fellow non-American I’m often constantly confused by the level of a) control and b) investment universities have in what are essentially non-university activities? I mean, we have colleges run out of some universities (essentially boarding houses) but they have incredibly strict rules and readily expel…

Manchin’s attitude and behavious I totally get - he’s a conservative in a relatively conservative place and people vote for him because of that. Anyone expecting him to behave like a Democrat is dreaming - the man would be a Republican expect he’s actually not crazy enough, and can’t appeal to their Trumpian standards.

My partner often comes home from work completely disgusted with a coworker who makes comments about building a bigger shed to avoid his wife, or coming into work early/staying late to avoid his kids, and asking for excuse ideas to avoid spending time with any of his family. If it’s true, it’s incredibly sad and he…

You make a really good point - the majority of people have kids after they marry, so while they may have had a good, equal relationship before marriage, kids add a while new dynamic to the relationship that isn’t always for the best. Especially since men can become weird about kids - even men who are pretty feminist…

YEP. My parents have a good partnership (probably my dad does a touch more housework? but only by a smidge) and I was lucky to learn a lot from that. My partner does sometimes frustrate me - a recent diagnosis of ADHD helped make a lot of things makes sense - but he communicates well, always offers to help, does…

Yeah that for me was a huge red flag that took it from, “might hate watch” to “nope absolutely not worth it”.

Right?! I had some Tamora Pierce books dismissed as “chick lit” which...uh...yeah, swords and epic quests and monsters are definitely chick lit because the characters also happen to have...relationships.

I wish. My parents are on their second Airedale and I swear those dogs consider human’s a necessary inconvenience... 

Mr Bingley is a golden retriever of a man. 100% himbo.

I was literally thinking of how I studied Radcliffe and Bronte at university, and the men in my class kept dismissing them as romance writers, unworthy of serious study, when like, Radcliffe was part of the early Gothic cannon and Bronte’s Wuthering Heights is barely a romance, unless you think abusive relationships…

I mean, some of that is because if a female author includes even one reference to a relationship, it’s “romance” writing, and any work exploring the lives of women is “chick lit” - both terms that instantly turn off many readers from exploring the work, even if it’s not remotely what those two terms conjure up in…

Personally, I really love that it shows her working hard - despite clearly establishing that she is intelligent, she has a 4.0 GPA and got a crazy good lstat. The thing is, no matter how smart you are, law school will always require hard work - and I think it’s handy (and feminist haha) to show that a smart woman…

You don’t have to literally say the words to express the sentiment.

The whole “not my president” was stupid when conservatives did it, and it’s just as stupid when liberals do it.

But then how would we talk to one another?!?!?!

Yeah, my partner is...tattooed, many many piercings, with a pretty sharp undercut and wild dyed hair, who wears jeans, boots and metal band tshirts with leather jackets.