Love the sinner, hate the sin? Not really. That’s just the excuse bad people give for hating their good children and loving their evil children. If you love someone you are ok, on a fundamental level, with the acts that define them.

Breeding is absolutely unnecessary to obtain working SAR dogs, or working seeing eye dogs for that matter. This is a debate that has been done to death. The vast majority of dogs that are bred to be working dogs wash out of their programs. You would increase the likelihood of dogs completing training if, instead of…

Leaving aside that this, apparently, has an application for conservation ... I’m with you. Fuck who breed dogs. I used to be more middle of the road about this issue. E.g. I recognized that some breeders work responsibly to preserve breeds that are actually a part of our cultural patrimony. But since getting my dog,…

You’ve stated it perfectly. She specifically adopted the persona of a Black woman that could enjoy all the privileges of both tokenism and colorism. And I know exactly what you mean about her interviews. She absolutely dripped scorn in every interview.

She could support her family for maybe six months on an advance for a book. And then it would have to be a wild success for her to see any more money. Which I don’t see happening.

Community college jobs are not actually easy to get. Not ones that you can support an adult human on. Let alone an adult human with kids. Any community college faculty position that she could apply for will have other qualified candidates to chose from.

I’m so so glad that women are staking a claim to escapist fantasies.