This was great! More, please!

With birding binoculars, no less. That’s an extra helping of dorky there.

That’s terrific and I’m glad your students are part of the conversation. I’m going to note and offer that example as well—hope you don’t mind.

It’s the same where I am. At one point I decided it wasn’t worth it anymore, so as a once-avid concert-goer, I just stopped altogether.

I bet that if we weren’t under stay-at-home orders, she would also be letting the dog run off-leash through Joshua Tree and tell everyone who pointed out the leash ordinances “oh, my dog is fine”.

Especially since they have the same surname. She only had to learn one new name.

It also highlights that it wasn’t that damn long ago. So many are dismissive of the idea of reparations or the concepts of institutional racism or generational trauma because “that was so long ago” and “why haven’t you gotten over it?”, or “my immediate family didn’t own slaves, so I have no involvement”. Donham is…

Seriously. It’s such a nerdy, anorak-y thing to do (said with love. I know a few avid birders, including one who made birding sites a huge factor in his college decision). Unless he has deadly binoculars, it’s generally not an activity that goes hand in hand with “menace”. 

including one post where the dog was allegedly terrorized by a scary, black pit bull. Not a joke.

It’s called a hands-free headset, Becky. You can multi-task with one, threatening to sic the police on an innocent, inconvenient person while simultaneously securely holding onto your dog with both hands, in a non-choking manner.

Dog humans are the worst. They give the dogs themselves a bad rap.

aka, “I don’t like your tone”. Never mind if what you’re saying is completely sensible and correct.

Not to mention the sudden tone shift: cool and aggressive with him, little-girl scared and teary on the phone.

To be fair, that’s how most university students feel about the affiliated business school.

Ditto on the Central Park connection.

she chokeholds the dog...that you know she bragged about ‘rescuing’ to everyone she knew while declaring that she loves animals more than humans!!

Classic “racism without racists”. Her full apology statement also includes the boilerplate “I am not a racist”, “this is not who I am”, etc.

In so many respects, Get Out was not work of fiction. It nailed this set so well.

Spot on. At best, she may consider herself “left-leaning”, without deeper understanding of what that means. And she’s certainly afflicted by the finance worker’s disease of being unable to consider the views or experiences of anyone outsider herself or her bubble. 

I’d also say, just looking at his dating history, that Harry has long been exposed—and attracted—to headstrong, intelligent women who have their lives and goals firmly established. He’s probably always had these great glimpses into what life could be, as well as clear indications that his Royal status was an…