Yeah, I have the worst habit of judging people who use racial slurs before I get to know them. *shrug.

Uhhh didn't you use the racial slur "ch*nks" elsewhere in this comments section? And your boy Houston was a slave-owning racist (as was most of the Texas Independence movement, planters who wanted to grow more cotton). You're not making a great case for progressive Texas. Though I actually know quite a few awesome,…

Re: "it's been decades", I agree. While watching I told my partner that as much as I love Lagertha, Aslaug seems to have the stronger claim. She's ruled Kattegat for longer than Lagertha did and as the author noted, it seems to be doing well.

That's a great link, so it says, "One's sexual partners mattered little so long as one married, had children, and conformed at least on the surface to societal norms so as not to disturb the community." Do we know if Lagertha and her partner are really Out? We've just seen them alone in a field and far away from where…

Honestly? Nah. I've known plenty of ladies from her background who make all kinds of mistakes/questionable decisions in their youth and turn out just fine. I could see her happily married in the suburbs or whatever in 10 years. Class is funny like that, people tend to snap right back.

If a little earlier she could have possibly done some intelligence work, Josephine Baker was a spy for the Allies. But that was for the French. In the US she could have at least had a war-production related job. My grandmother was a welder in naval ship yard in those years (pretty good job for a Black woman, at the…

Yeah that joke killed me! As a teacher "Somebody needs to come get him because I'm not going to jail today!" is far too relatable!

Am i the only one who remembers the PBS movie version of Jacob Have I Loved? I feel old. I just googled to make sure I didn't like dream it, and seeing the name "Wonderworks" brought back a lot of memories!
Anyway, wasn't Terabithia already made into a not-great film more recently, as well?

It had no right to get so damn good in season 3!

100% accurate. I had a huge crush on Jordan Catalano (as a 13 year old) but re-watching Freaks makes me wonder how I slept on Nick!

Why do you assume it's "knee-jerk faux outrage"? That's such an interesting reaction, to me. I'm African American, I have heard bullshit jokes about Black people not being able to speak properly my whole life. I am impacted by the beliefs conveyed in those jokes (like in the job market). My anger/annoyance at seeing…

I was just telling my partner about how everything I know about the bible, I learned from Many Waters! Such a strange book, read at a strange period in my life (beginning puberty)- totally get you on the burned into my brain, thing.

Not everyone thinks it was "pretty good" (or "well-written" for that matter).

Just want to say that I feel like this is the best criticism of the last season that I've read so far, it articulated a lot of things that I felt and couldn't put into words. Excellent piece, thank you for writing it.

Hey guy, so is empathy a factor for you at all, or no? You're being told that some people involuntarily experience horrible feelings, reliving memories of trauma that can be set off by certain things- and there is a thing that society is trying that may help them with that- and you're going to the mat, arguing…

Thirded.

Also Black and no, the self-hating charge does get leveled at people just for dating a white person. No active disparaging required. I went to a Black college and used to be really insecure about sometimes dating white people, until I realized that in my experience, the same people who had a problem with that also had…

Amandla is Zulu and Xhosa word meaning "power". It was an important rallying cry in the anti-apartheid movement (and the name of a great documentary about the music of that movement), which I'm guessing her parents (a mixed race couple) cared about. You could have googled before being snide, dude.

Yeah, it makes me uncomfortable how people lose their mind when I straighten my hair. I think that whether conscious or not, people love it because it gets me closer to some rigid Eurocentric beauty ideal. That's probably why I haven't straightened it since prom. I hate taking compliments whilst getting angry.

When they mentioned the evil witch who it turns out isn't, that made me think of Marina. I'm glad they had her fill that role in this ep.