I don’t believe that. I believe that “old white guy” would probably have won some voters who didn’t vote for Clinton out of (mostly unacknowledged) misogyny. I don’t think that any significant proportion of voters who voted for Clinton would have NOT voted for Sanders.

But I also don’t think that—as SOME Sanders…

To a lot of the people who voted for Trump, being Jewish disqualifies you from whiteness, though.

I don’t have a ton of hair, but I make hats for people who do (until very recently, all my nieces had very long hair—the eldest finally won the “I don’t LIKE long hair, Mom; you grow YOUR hair out if you want it” battle). I just make slouch hats. Or wide ear-warmer headbands. I hate the messy bun hats because they…

I make a lot of things that suit my fancy at the time. I give those away, if they aren’t for me. And I turn down a lot of commissions because I just don’t want to make whatever it is. Again, I have that luxury because I don’t try to earn a living at it, and I know that’s a luxury. But if I don’t want to make…

Yep. This is why I got out of doing craft fairs and focus on commissioned work (I also am not trying to get a full-time income out of crafting, so I have that luxury). Mermaid blankets, the elephant rug, this freaking “messy bun hat” that has eaten the crochet world the past week or so... I can ignore ALL of them and…

I got kind of annoyed when I got an offbrand Barbie as a kid, but only because she didn’t quite fit in any Barbie clothes. I was mad that I couldn’t dress her up (and she came without any clothes), not that she wasn’t Barbie. (And once my BFF’s mom crocheted her a quick dress, I was fine. She was my favorite Barbie.)

Not *quite* (in part because a lot, though not all, of their parking is in multilevel garages), but pretty close, yeah.

I didn’t mind, mostly because I was living in a really shitty situation then anyway (my abusive ex had just really ramped up the abuse, now that I was living 1400 miles from my support system, and we…

Okay!

It’s the first time at MoA, which at least makes it noteworthy within the Twin Cities. (I used to live within walking distance of the MoA, and local media reported on pretty much everything that happened there.)

I love that “they don’t yet have Asia expertise on team” as an explanation.

I am opposed to the draft, period. But IF young men are required to register when they turn 18 (which, again, I believe they should not be), then young women should, as well.

Well, we disagree, then. And that’s fine.

I’m firmly against the draft. But if my guy friends had to register for Selective Service, I should have had to, as well. (At this point, since I’m over 45, I doubt I will ever have to register for the draft. And since I’m over 45 *and disabled*, I wouldn’t actually get drafted. So the point is moot. But 18-year-old…

I like having people over, and I liked having a kitchen/dining area like the one in our new house (I can’t say if I like that one, yet, because there are still 3 weeks until I move in), because I wasn’t isolated from my friends while I was cooking. (And yet, I hate having people in my kitchen, so having a clearly…

I used to live in an apartment with a galley kitchen that had a pass-through to... the dining room, I guess? (It was smaller than the other non-bedroom room, and had a pass-through window, so “dining room” made sense, but it was also the front room of the house, which is a weird place for a dining room. That was a…

I did. School (even though I had a terrible time at school) was infinitely safer than my home when I was a kid. Sure, my sixth-grade teacher used to offer people extra credit to hit me (I am not making this up), but she didn’t subject me to hours-long lectures about how I was the sole person in all of human history…

Wasn’t Smeltings (where Dudley went) also supposed to be a boarding school? Pre-Harry finding out he was a wizard, Dudley was going to go to Smeltings, and Harry would be staying with the Dursleys and going to the local secondary school, IIRC.

I hate open floor plans. I do like that my kitchen and dining room flow together (the kitchen itself is too small for a table, so a previous owner tore down the wall to make them into one room), but I also like that the living room is completely separate.

The apartment I’m still in for a few more weeks combines the…

And that’s what I’m actually hoping to see achieved. I don’t think the result is going to change. I think that’s inevitable.

This is reasonable. But I’m disabled and chronically ill, and when I say “don’t have the energy to make food for myself,” I mean, “I could whiz that together, or I could eat it, but I could not do both.”