That’s good to know, all I have to do is ask. But seriously? Don’t tell me what is or isn’t significant. Your experience is not my experience, and having been in a relationship where there was no sexual activity for over two years feels extremely significant to me.

I have not seen anything thus far that makes me “get” Aquaria. She wants to claim people are stealing her looks (a friend of mine dug up the receipts, no one is copying her), she wants to stir the pot and not get called out on it, and her look last night was the first interesting thing she’s done and she was only…

Cause she only seems to care about padding if the girls aren’t rail thin and white. Aquaria, Violet etc get away with it cause they’re thin and white and stereotypically hot.

I agree. Aquaria crying was like, really girl? and yet so predictable at the same time. She starts shit and acts bitchy but acts like a victim when it gets thrown back in her face. Not really feeling her.

Well, hmm. The real tea though is what went down during Untucked. THAT is the moment I want to talk about! The Vixen laid. it. out. and you may not have liked her tone, but she was not wrong.

So, why isn’t Michelle coming for some of the queens this season who aren’t padding like she did for a few queens in previous seasons?

Personally, I’m hoping we inherit their wealth and then invest in the physical and social infrastructure they let starve.*

“If a young person leaves the community for any length of time, they will never be fully accepted back.”

I don’t understand this logic: I’ll have half a dozen kids with three different men, live a life of soul-crushing poverty, never bother to learn the mechanics of sex and reproduction so that I may prevent yet more unplanned pregnancies, but I’m NOT going to get married! That would ruin my life!

“She was making $3 an hour, plus tips.”

Problem seems to be that they don’t even know what is in their best interest.

Having 7 kids you can’t afford to care for - it just breaks my heart. Absentee fathers, lack of nutrition and education. Its a vicious cycle of neglect. These young women need something more to aspire to than being a mommy to endless litters of babies.

I grew up with the city version of this family. I made better choices. Never been pregnant. Never considered sex without birth control. Never did drugs. I’m not above those who make different choices. I just looked at my family and knew all those things would only make my life worse.

I grew up in an extremely small town in southern WV and it kills me to see what my state has become. Or, hell, maybe it’s always been this way but our little valley town was sheltered? I have no idea. I just know that when I see how fucked up it’s all gotten it makes me sad.

I do work in the region all the time, mainly drives and motors for hard rock mining, gas compressor sites, and water pumping stations.

YES!

Trump won West Virginia by the largest margin in any state. Maybe they should stop voting against their own self-interest?

Jesus fuck.... 6 kids and 3 baby daddy’s before 30. With no way to support them to have a life better than your own (isn’t that the goal?). So the kids grow up with no forward progress, shitty education, and no other options so the poverty, drugs, and too many kids cycle continues. Then you vote for people who gut…

“Grant County women like Brittany Walters don’t rely on men because a lot of guys don’t stick around after they’ve fathered a child. Instead, women rely on a sisterhood of grandmothers, aunts, and neighbors. They are rural America’s economic backbone...”
So you keep having unprotected sex with these guys anyway??

I got halfway through this when it dawned on me it’s a female POV of Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. I’ve been visiting family in rural TN/NC my whole life. I agree that not much has changed since the early 70s when you’re off the path. It’s as if they know how to make the changes (move elsewhere, get educated, start a…