I'm not even four hours from New York.

"God bless you" is used further North (I'm North of the Mason-Dixon line, actually...) and is not grounds for a blood feud. It also CAN be said honestly. "Bless your heart" does not have a straight-up application anymore. It is always at least a little shade-throwing.

Unless, of course, you're talking Business NYC or Theatre NYC, in which case, everyone's blunt until they're asskissing.

Oh, hey, we must live in the same rough geographical area!

Yes.

Had a painfully polite (...in theory) Southern-transplant friend explain it to me ("it's like, well, uh, you want to tell someone you hate 'em but can't say it in front of your mama or their mama") and have refused to call it anything but The Southern Fuck You ever since.

Kind of like how "Well, God bless you" in my neck of the woods means one of three things:

Almost as obvious as Misty Andress or Miss Oginist.

OH GOD.

Have you read the books or watched the show? In any depth at all? I speak as someone who has read the books: Please deconstruct how literally all of the women in power are portrayed, in my opinion, equally to or more favorably than many of the men in power. How Brienne d'Tarth is the only true knight in the realm and…

This.

Er, perhaps because we need to do this thing called "working" during the day and are only home together at night? And even if, by some strange work, your preferred sex buddy works with you in the same building, flourescent lighting is not conducive to fucking?

I was unaware there was another kind of OCD than adult. Am I infantile? Do I need to get my shit together?

OW.

To answer the question posed in the headline: My goodness, it couldn't possibly be because she's a black teenager, could it? That has nothing to do with it, right? Nobody's racist anymore, correct? All institutionalized racism in the justice system and media and elsewhere has been vanquished forever, yes?

Better yet, apparently when you hit a certain age, bondage pictures of a partner credited to you can grounds for adding "casual photographer" to your CV.

Or the black ones, or the gay ones, or the Mexican ones, or the slutty ones, or the...

#bythepowerofthedarkone #itsalustdrunkwitchthing

Can we also stop pretending like every fetus hypothetically conceived is a precious, precious resource that will definitely benefit humankind in immense ways if allowed to grow to term and be born?