This is definitely a big issue. I posted somewhere above that my advisor failed 19 students in a course, and he said he had to spend about 4 hours per student gathering proof and putting it all together and submitting it. So almost two entire work weeks (assuming he only works 40-hour weeks, which...no.) spent on…

Exactly! And the reason I am teaching this class rather than taking it is that I earned a fucking Ph.D. Don't even start to entertain the delusion that your online research skills can match mine. I will bury you.

Don't be so hard on yourself, most of us can't hold a candle to Claude Rains.

This issue isn't that complicated. SNL is a show that lampoons popular culture. There are many, many Black women in popular culture (Michelle Obama, Oprah, Beyonce, Rihanna, Kerry Washington/Olivia Pope). In order to do its job (i.e., satirize popular culture) they need to hire people to fit the role. It's called…

Gee, I wonder how this could be remedied. How about letting a group of people who are currently being denied marriages, because gay, get married.

Same, but that's because I remember being a young lady in the 90s and it was, back then, the first state to allow gay marriage... before they stopped allowing it in 1998 (when obnoxious people changed the state's constitution to define marriage as being between one man and one woman).

I live in Texas. I'm not 'bitching about Texas,' I am making a joke about our awesome governor Rick Perry, who has done nothing but sell my good state off in pieces, bit by bit to special interests! If you really were so excited about all the ways Texas is 'blue' you'd be fist bumping this joke. And frankly, I think…

Wtf? This has nothing to do with what you said, but how you said it. The OP is being patient and engaging in a discussion with you, and every single one of your comments is rude as hell.

Now it feels like you are pretty much trolling. I want my 5 minutes of reading this conversation back. The fact you defend a highly problematic subculture (which, by the way, has a serious rape problem) under the defense of "well, there is rape every other subculture else so we shouldn't bother breaking it down or…

You're not getting it. Sure, rape is a part of any culture, but this article is about how it is a part of a specific subculture. That doesn't mean it's not anywhere else.

Honey, hate to break it to you, but you don't know shit about statistics. A sample size of 147 can be more than enough for generalization to the general population if the sample regression has small enough p-value on the appropriate variables.

Oh, and in case anyone was wondering, I am currently pursuing my Phd in Psychology.

Poisonous friends are the worst.

Seriously. And wearing contacts sucks more than wearing glasses! Especially the getting them out part.

I'm pretty sure Meyers naming a character Jacob was caused by general naming trends, rather than the other way around.

I was going to say I was sorry your mom passed, but it sounds like she was a monster. I'm sorry she was your mom. *hugs*

Oh my god. This one was creepy until I read your follow up. THAT was terrifying.

i think it probably informed twilight to some degree, no?

So this run of Jacobs preceded Twilight, thank Jebus.

Nope, sorry, Katharine Hepburn and nobody else is Jo forever and ever and ever.