I do see it, and it's a great piece because Erin is a great writer. This is also a great piece because Tracie is a great writer, but my point is that when it's the very first mention of her speech, especially on a women's blog, I worry about the message that's being sent and the importance placed on the different…

"Is all of this shallow? Kind of. Does it detract from what Mrs. Obama said last night? No."

How nice for you that you don't regard it as threatening, but for many women - women who have been victims of previous sexual assault, women walking alone at night, women walking in places where they're unfamiliar - it really is. It's a much more complicated issue than "Have a thicker skin."

Someone is desperate to get back the comment numbers that they lost after this idiotic new layout.

Right but your vote isn't up for grabs. You didn't need to watch the Republican convention to decide not to vote Republican. And since you're a political junkie, you most likely know way more about what went on at the Republican convention than the average person who will vote for them come November.

Probably, but even though I said Honey Boo Boo (because that's what this article is talking about) my point was more about the lack of political engagement.

I don't actually think the only ones who do this vote Republican. I used people voting Republican as the example because the article is about people watching Honey Boo Boo rather than the RNC.

I would guess that that means like all the 24 hour news shows (Maddow, Cooper, O'Reilly, etc.). But Honey Boo Boo beat the actual network broadcast of the convention. Which is not all that surprising to me.

Ugh. That's part of why people are voting for Republicans - no one pays attention to what people are actually saying / doing except for the political junkies, who have pretty much already decided who they're going to vote for. And then all the people who were watching Honey Boo Boo show up at the polls and vote…

Here is what I am concerned about. We know that they are lying. People who are already going to vote for them don't care that they are lying. But those people in the middle aren't realizing that they're lying.

This reminds me of the SVU where Elliot becomes obsessed with tracking down the perp who stole his credit card - and then finds out it is his daughter and that she used it to get stupid matching tattoos with her boyfriend.

Why would you ever, ever, ever dip your baby's pacifier in an energy drink? Dipping it in whiskey or cough syrup or some other depressant, I understand. (I wouldn't do it, but I understand the impetus behind it.) But what is the possible motivation for wanting to amp your baby up?

My comment was badly worded and basically just should not have been posted. I know Oprah's audience is mostly white but she tends to do a great job of highlighting race issues and giving them a spotlight that other people can't. So it makes sense to me that they would want to emphasize this particular part of Gabby's…

Sorry - my original comment was ill-conceived and just all around stupid, and I shouldn't be trying to justify it in subsequent comments. I also hadn't seen the interview and thought she was saying something much different than she actually did - another reason I shouldn't have commented in the first place. I…

I wish I could delete this comment - I worded it incredibly badly and I should never have posted it, because it's flat out wrong.

Oh interesting - I did not see the interview and was going off of this article, which made it sound like it was the major focus.

What else have I said about race lately, besides this comment?

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that she was misremembering. More that it makes sense for producers to emphasize the bullying due to race since that makes her becoming the first Black gymnast to win the all-around all the more compelling. So perhaps an isolated incident became the focus of the story. This gym seems to…

There's not no thought behind it. She apparently owes this gym a lot of money, and this gym has had more elite Black gymnasts than any other gym in the country. So that gives me pause. I also perhaps worded my comment badly - didn't mean to imply that it was some sort of induced memory, more that perhaps one isolated…