I think its going to be full of people from all different political affiliations. Example - I’m a high school teacher and I’ll be there chaperoning 46 high schoolers while they explore D.C. for the week and attend Inauguration. The trip was set up a while ago and I agreed to chaperone when I thought the results would…

Exactly, I feel like people calling her a feminist are literally saying that simply because she’s a working woman. Its 2017, almost every woman works. Doesn’t make all of them feminist.

I love Erika and Eileen both so much! Can see myself having a drink with them.

“It all began with him pontificating about Lee Harvey Oswald’s possible innocence like a jackass and bragging about showing the “have nots” the finer things in life.” I...um...okay...

You make a very good point. I forget sometimes that I operate in circles that are heavily social justice oriented and that racism and social issues are things I am constantly discussing.

Someone called me a racist recently and even though it was in a heated and personal situation, I still took it to heart and tried to examine how my actions could be racist. I think that as a white American, there is definitely racism within me that has been ingrained from society, and that its my job to deconstruct…

My racist uncle posted on Facebook “I think calling someone a ‘racist’ is way more offensive than anything Trump has ever said.”

See, I find this so interesting. When people ask me “what” I am, I respond with “I’m American.” I strongly identify as American. I’m a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, I love U.S. history, I teach U.S. government and U.S. history to high schoolers, I try to utilize my background and history of…

I’d argue that “white” doesn’t have a culture since it is a race, but as a white American, I definitely think there is an “American” culture, and I don’t mean NASCAR and burgers.

But also the simple fact that sometimes elderly care is really damn difficult and they have to be in a facility. My grandma’s dementia is so bad that she simply has to live in an assisted living facility because its the only way she’ll remain safe. We love her to death and visit her all the time, and we hate having to…

For real, my grandma is completely beloved by everyone in the family but her dementia is so bad that she has to be in an assisted living facility.

This is an incredible piece. It perfectly captures the feelings of singlehood without falling too hard in either direction. Being single is not great, and its not terrible. It just is. And its so hard to live in a society that is built around coupledom when you’re very single.

I think its so cool to be living in a golden age of something. I’m dead serious. I teach history and minored in American studies, and I keep thinking how in the future people will look back on the popular culture of this time period and think “golden age of television.”

Exactly, it is such a “lose/lose” situation. I usually stay quiet during these debates because yes, I am a white person, and I know that my input isn’t needed for many discussions surrounding race, but this debate is really bothering me because it seems non-sensical to me. When white people in entertainment ignore…

I think the issue has to do with personal experiences and opinions. Like, I know what I know and feel the way I feel about America and race and representation specifically because I’ve had eye-opening conversations with people from other cultures and races and religions that have taught me so much and changed the way…

This is exactly the problem with the left these days. There is so much arguing over how to be the perfect white ally and its all getting so subjective and confusing. I think open dialogue and a genuine desire to understand others’ viewpoints is so crucial to growth, but there are sooo many comments on this post saying…

I’m struggling with this as well. I am a white person. I think that open dialogue and a genuine desire to understand another race or culture is a good thing. For example, my boyfriend is an undocumented immigrant. I had been sensitive to undocumented immigrants before (in the sense that I advocated for paths to…

Which is also a trope that, as a teacher, I really despise. So many tv shows depict millennials going out in the world, failing, and then saying “I know, I’ll teach!” as if its something that everyone just does when they cannot figure out what else to do. And not only did the show use this trope, they made it even…

Wow you took the words right out of my mouth! That’s exactly it, in the original series (especially in the later episodes) the audience is constantly told how amazing Rory is but we never actually see her being amazing. The script literally contains lines talking about Rory as an angel, but then the writers would have…

This bothered me so much in the original run. I went to a rigorous prep school similar to Chilton, and let me tell you, the girls like Paris were the ones that got shit done, got into any university they wanted, went on to law or med school. The Rorys did not just magically get accepted into every single Ivy League…