Also the American Dream in the 1700s and 1800s was out in the country- getting to be an actual landowner and owning a farm was a big thing since it meant you really owned something to give your kids and you’d be your own boss. Though if you were someone who’d either not be allowed to purchase that land or would be…

Yeah as soon as I read her description I scrolled up again and saw “adopted” and though that that seems right- there’s plenty of racist white women who had children with black men, but the way she talks about him like a weird object she’s collected makes it clear she only sees herself as his “owner”

I think the “perpetually tanned-looking” comment is less discomfort with saying Black and more a weird kind of tokenism- the fact that his skin is a different color makes him unusual to her. He might as well be a white tiger

It’s the shot of people standing on the tank beating it, not the famous Tank Man shot

I loved the one story about how she had an ancestor in Jamaica who *gasp* owned a plantation..... like how do they think she’s related to that guy? It probably didn’t involve a long courtship period of champagne and roses. Her black ancestors didn’t see a dime of that guy’s money

Yeah plus since the Justice League is mind controlled in this they may not be functioning at 100% mental capacity. Superman isn’t just a mindless tank in the comics, he’s also a reporter. And he has several enemies who are so immensely powerful that he often needs a clever plan to actually beat them (besides Braniac…

Even at 27 that makeup is super heavy. Her hair looked pretty but I’m not a fan of the “full pancake of makeup” thing that’s big with a lot of the beauty Youtubers

Yeah- I think part of it is our culture is (perhaps even more than ever) obsessed with visuals. There are plenty of reasons to want to work out more and/or change your diet- feeling healthier and stronger or getting to a healthy BMI is great. I struggle with binge eating sometimes and chronic pain always so I often…

Yeah technically (*flashes back to that episode of Broad City where Abbi manages to melt a custom dildo in the washing machine*)

That’s how you end up at the ER- dildos are cheap, safer and you don’t have to cook with them

Yeah we have a lot of problems with both. We’re offering classes to parents which will hopefully help, but many parents aren’t that literate in Spanish let alone English. Even if they could afford anything over $100-200 they need something with the basics already preinstalled because this is all very foreign to them.…

Yeah- it seems like the answer is somewhere in between- she was just a child, and it seems like she’d been hurt by others and had a lot of trauma. I’m not sure if once she had the fake ID and birth certificate the industry in the 80s had a great way of verifying (you might be able to set up a system where they could…

I think the problem is that the families who don’t even have a laptop at home are more likely to be tech-illiterate. Do you think people who have to keep making new email addresses since they don’t know how to recover a password they’ve forgotten will be able to install and use Ubuntu?

You think that’s bad? What about *6* $1000 laptops? Districts with higher Catholic populations like ours have more families with more than 3 children. At least a third of my case load of 60 reported they had 4 or more siblings last year. We’re doing 1 Chromebook per child this year but hopefully the supply issue isn’t…

Yeah- you can tell where police unions’ hearts are where they’d rather have a bunch of innocent people die than maybe campaign against the laws that let any person they pull over be armed to the teeth

I personally love using Pocket as a Chrome extension- it’s a much better form of bookmarks where you can add tags and favorites easily and search through them to find the bookmark you were thinking of. And there’s an option to change your New Tab page to one with articles and the articles they feature are often pretty…

Seriously that comment may have been longer than the article?! I didn’t actually read it (the comment) though- I just skimmed past it and decided whatever was that long had to be dumb

Oh I know it- there’s that “are you sexually active” question at the doctor which makes them fly into “you need to be on birth control!!” until you chime in that you’re sexually active with a woman (which they of course never ask). Even when they’re more direct about intercourse, you get into the question about…

Yeah- I think I relate to Aang more since I’m on the goofier and more “cooperatively minded” side. I like Korra’s arc with the mercury poisoning- that was way more realistic than they’d ever gotten. I think we also could have gotten to know the characters better if they’d given them more episodes per season- there…

It’s also very focused on a hetero-centric idea of sex. The people saying “she probably just made out with them” (1) are likely picturing something straight out of lesbian porn for straight men and (2) would think that fingering or mutual masturbation weren’t “really” sex. Not to mention she grew up with a lot of…