So basically they’re going to pretend the last season of the show never happened.

The poster is great but I can’t help thinking that she looks more like Mia Wasikowska and JLaw had a baby.

Counterpoint- there are a lot of Christians who think he’s a jackass and a danger to the country, myself included.

I don’t think that entire “stage” she went through was only black. She was looking strung out and probably depressed from her break up.
As someone who also turned to drugs and making questionable clothing decisions after a break up - I can relate.

Eh, I didn’t hate it. Good for Miley. We all go through a regrettable gross stage.

And, what fucking dump full of stupid people are you from, my dear? Because I KNOW you’re from a fucking dump full of stupid people. :)

“I don’t see this as erasing our heritage,” he argued of taking down the statues. “Our heritage was a fucked-up heritage. It was the original placing of the statutes that was erasing our heritage”

Well, certainly not, if they don’t honor the ancient NOLA tradition of one drink = one pee.

You’re welcome to stay out then cher ;-)

Harry Turtledove wrote a book where the Confederacy survives and Lee becomes its first post-war president. One of the first things he does is abolish slavery, and that feels like it might have happened that way.

It’s odd that people who “just want to preserve their heritage” are so determined to obscure and erase the nasty parts of that heritage. Let’s absolutely not try to “destroy our history”, but let’s not celebrate the villains.

Purely anecdotal, but I heard zero kids discussing this show before the school board sent out panicky letters to parents. Now they’ve all seen it.

This is a really thoughtful, well-written piece. Young people are capable of consuming media critically, and for those of us who are adults (however much of a technicality that feels like) should be giving them the tools to do that, instead of simply hand-wringing over it.

Overall I agree with one gigantic caveat.

I thought this show did a good job at showing the insidiousness of rape culture- how men and women both become complicit and desensitized from practically the onset of puberty and how they internalize it into adulthood so that even the “trustworthy” adults fail to give compassionate aid to people in crisis.

Classic “I didn’t know I could get in trouble fot it” face

Those are just details... what really matters is that the kid probably was rude to someone at some point in his life and was aggressively retreating away from the officer towards a group of nuns/puppies. Probably.

The police officer’s parents are already in the media trying to spin him as a “good father” and a “family man”, never mind that he’s divorced and has two children born within 12 days of each other by two different women.

I wish his obvious remorse (he looks like he’s been crying) was for his victim instead of his own predicament.

it does open with the main character really struggling to find a place to play the cassette tapes. the book is pretty emo, and i think the author was like “what’s more emo than cassette tapes?”