My father-in-law went to a British boarding school. He acts like it was just what you did back then (he was an aristocrat), but he is pretty private so if it was tramatizing, he wouldn’t say so. He does, however, think I have terrible manners.

Since I’ve been around the so-called radical left (about a decade), practically the only thing everyone really agrees on is that the RCP is terrible. I remember at the DNC protests in 2008 the American Indian activists were leading a march, and asked everyone else to follow behind, and the RCP ran out in front of…

I have, but I thought it was because I gave birth on Sunday. I’ve had to readjust the world I’ve envisioned for my kid. I really thought we winning against bigotry. I was so excited to bring a new person into a better world than the one I’d grown up in.

I’m having a Little House on the Prairie flashback. Poor Bunny.

Me too! I also read a few of her books. Some of the advice was good for me to hear as a teen: don’t date shiftless guys. But after her advice combined with my public school’s abstinence-only education, took a lot of work to undo shame around sex.

The funny thing is, there is a good chance you live in a state that has banned Affirmative Action, too. I live in Washington State, and occasionally my (college) students have written essays on how unfair Affirmative Action is, and I’ve said, “Why are you arguing something we don’t have is so unfair?” I hope it gets…

PETA.

That is intense! What region / time period was this? When I lived in central Florida in 2005 for an internship I was rather exotic, but here in Seattle it is pretty normal (my aunt and cousin were even vegetarian in rhe 90s, living in the burbs).

I’m a non-strict vegan, and based on the reactions from the proselytizers, you would think I was eating veal or foie gras.

Vegan cheese is nasty! Then again, I am a weirdo who hated real cheese, which made going vegan much easier than it is for cheese lovers. I love nutritional yeast, though, since it doesn’t taste like cheese to me.

Yes! This is my approach to veganism: be a normal, reasonable person who eats good recognizable food and gets along with other people. I don’t try to recruit, yet have had a good number of friends become vegan, vegetarian, or eat less meat after seeing that veganism is doable without the dogma or extrene diets.

I have been vegan since 2002, and by maybe 2004 I was done with interacting with other vegans* because they were such idealogues with no room for nuance or intersectionality with other social issues. It sounds like the “community” has gotten weirder.

I am really glad to see more parents like you supporting their kids exploring gender identity! Supportive parents can make all the difference for LGBT youth.

Just when I thought I could maybe recover from how Xena ended 15 years ago, Lexa had to get Jossed.

I taught Beauty and the Beast in a class on “monsters.” Even today’s jaded college students really enjoyed it... they thought it was a lot more feminist than the Disney movie, and that Ron Perlman’s makeup was awesome.

I’m a fan. I have pet birds, so we don’t allow any Teflon products in the house. I’ve converted several friends to cast iron who realized it is a lot easier to cook with than stainless steel.

We use ours 2-4 times a day so we just leave it on the stove. We add more oil when we start cooking again, if there isn’t enough left from the previous meal.

Mako Mermaids: best show on Netflix.

Every season reaches new lows.

Lorelei is supposed to be about 48, around the age of Lauren Graham. Not sure about Luke.