Your story is similar to mine. I was adopted at birth but met my birth parents when I turned 18. They are both morbidly obese, as was I. I too thought you can’t fight genetics but I wound up losing 170 pounds in the last 2 years and I went from 360 to 190, where I’ve been steadily for 6 months.

This tends to be my opinion as well. I think that the concept of fairness in a restricted-class sports competition (in this case, women’s sports) relies on a fundamental adherence to the spirit of that restriction.

In a more sane world, everyone would just use the NCAA’s testosterone policy, and then be open to monitoring outcomes over the course of years or even decades as we continue to accrue more observations of trans athletes. This is a topic where I don’t really care about people’s opinions right now. I think the…

[Nomadland] is more in line with Kelly Reichardt’s 2008 Wendy & Lucy, a devastating character study of a woman pushed into homelessness after her car breaks down.

Sorry, I was riffing off your comment, I didn’t mean to argue with you. I probably should have made that more clear.

What about any of my comments made you think I was participating in any sort of generational warfare? I was explicitly calling that out. “Solving” racism is literally a never ending task, and the progress made by generation A will have to be carried on my Generation B and so on.

Exactly when was Gen X *ever* in charge? The Boomers never stepped aside for us. We were told “work hard, go to school, and you’re sure to succeed,” only to find that a lie... sound familiar? We did what we could, but no single generation can wave a magic wand and create a utopia.

Yeah, but you sort of missed the point of my comment and the comment I was replying to. The point was that it is idiotic to blame a generation because they didn’t solve racism while they were “in charge”, be it Gen X, Millenials or Gen Z. There are racist shit bags in every generation, and people who fight against the…

I mean...most of the Proud Boys are millenials and/or gen z as it is. They also decry “cancel culture” so according to this article, the two generations that came after X have already failed.

Seems this is more an issue of the bigots co-opting language and twisting it than any particular failure of Gen X, to be honest. And I am certain that the same co-opting and turning into a slur happened before political correctness too. Seems that the bigots just don’t like it when we use language to describe their…

Oh I’m old enough haha. I’m still not totally over how Muriel’s Wedding got mis-marketed (and is therefore sometimes misremembered in the pop culture conscious) as a rom com, just because the lead character is female and it has the word “wedding” in the title. It’s actually a bit of a gut punch of a film.

Hoping you are old enough to remember pre-Sixth Sense Toni Collette.

If you’re referring to speeding tickets, it’s Finland! I wish this type of policy was more widespread. 

After I dropped 40 pounds, I had two longtime guy friends suddenly decide that they saw me in a Different Way. Did I want to date them? No, I did not because they lacked so much self-awareness. I also had an ex decide I was The One after all, and he swears it had nothing to do with my "dramatic transformation." (His…

I want to thank you for the work you’ve done this year in the face of unfathomable selfishness.

I just got home from my last hospital shift of the year.

Brandy, you’re going to continue writing here, yeah? Whether I wind up agreeing or not with your answers, it usually interesting and entertaining. So hope you stick around in ‘21.

It’s just been the culmination of selfishness that’s just been allowed to thrive as badly as it does. it’s become horribly obvious that 70-some odd million americans just don’t give a shit and refuse to believe anything officials talk about. proud boys, anti-maskers and karens just took over the year and everybody…

+1 for glorious Ebert shade.