Your whole comment was great, but this:

She also talks about waiting til marriage to have sex at all! Her music was barely sexual until after she got married! And she sang Cater 2 U! She's a conservative's wet dream except for the fact that she is Black and comfortable with her incredible body.

THIS is the photo they will never forgive, or forget....

It's not even just that these are two examples of equally corrosive cultures. One of these people sings songs about contracting STIs and wanting to have sex with minors. The other, at least for the most part, sings songs about consensual relationships between adults that don't harm their participants beyond possibly…

There's something unsettling about "I'm not a bitch" in the same sentence as "I was cheating on him after four years."

I think I'm cool with this! I envision a responsible-but-mischievous Dad type (don't burst my bubble if he's an ass) walking around for the entirety of his married life, silently smug about how completely he humbled his opponent. He got the dame AND the diamonds! Good to be Dad, good to be Dad.

My mother got engaged when she was 16 (hey, it was the 50's) and broke it off. Her ex wouldn't take the ring back so she kept it until she married my dad. They had the diamonds extracted and the metal melted down to be incorporated into HIS WEDDING BAND! My Dad is wearing another man's engagement ring to my mom! I am…

Sell that shit, buy some tight and short outfits, get a new and better man.

My Mom sold hers and went to France with me when she got divorced. (I paid my own way, however. No recompense for my emotional drainage - LOL.)

Dude proposes in Paris with a ring he bought the same day. I say no but keep it anyway because he's already married and fuck that guy.

Semi off-topic about engagement rings:

I once bought a ring from someone who was in dire straights and needed rent money (the couple had broken up, he left the state and she had the rent payment on her own)and couldn't wait to sell the ring and get more $. I bought the ring for the stupid low price she gave me, along with the certificate it came with,…

This guy is impossibly badass (longer video version is here)

The engagement ended. What did you do with the ring?

It reminds me of the Underpants Gnomes from South Park.

It's sad, but it took me a while to realize what that meant. "Is she having a hectic week at work?" I thought. My friends and I prefer "shark week," or the classic "visit from Aunt Flo." Or "crimson tide," which is a long story.

He cried, not for his wounds, but for Society, because the criminal went free.

'Suck on this criminal!'

How is student loan debt ambiguous? Mine is crystal clear - the never-diminishing balance that mocks me every month I make a payment.

It's been a while but if I remember correctly the welcome sign on the highway there reads;