I didn't really get a "feminist" vibe from this description, so maybe I'll have to watch the first ep to see what makes it feminist. (Not that it matters to me; I just thought that was an interesting word choice.)

I think I'd feel worse saying that I wasn't comfortable, since that's not really true. It's not that I'm uncomfortable, I'm just usually not that interested. I don't need to gaze into their stroller or crib, and I don't particularly feel the urge to hold them.

The mother probably would have just laughed and handed me the baby anyway!

I think I might have been angry, making an excuse or a joke. Why can't I just say "No"? (That's not directed at you, Tupiniquim.) Why should I feel guilty or awkward?

Oh shoot. I guess I could have mentioned how cute he is. Ugh.

Sorry this isn’t answering your question, but I don’t understand hate-watching things. I love or like shows, and when I start hating them - or soon after, when I've given up - I quit. Why waste your time watching things you hate? Sometimes I think that "hate-watching" is just a way to justify liking something you - or…

Has anyone ever said “No” when you’re asked if you want to hold someone’s baby? I was at a party a few weeks ago and when asked - not by the person whose baby it was but someone standing next to the parent - and I said “No.” I don’t hate babies - and didn’t have food in my hands :) - but I’m sort of like Elaine Benes,…

Just for mentioning the pie I’d get you out of the grays if I could!

But saying “She gave a fantastic speech” doesn’t really speak to the delivery, only the content. (And “She fantastically gave the speech” doesn’t sound the same as “She was articulate.”) I’m well aware of the implications of the word “articulate” when it’s in reference to a person of color, but -as awards shows,…

Oh for God’s sake. You have no idea what they were responding to, or if this was actually an “eye roll.” I’m sure that if anyone took a picture of you at any specific moment, your facial expression could be interpreted as anything people wanted to interpret it as.

God yes. And that’s as true for Taraji as it is for Viola.

No one’s going to see this since I’m in the grays, but it sucks that so many SNS posts are grey. It’s not very “social,” and there are so many “gray people” posting who need help and advice. :(

I don’t really expect people to have an answer, and certainly not to speak for all trans people, but I’ll ask anyway.....Is there a sense that trans actors/actresses want to, or would prefer to, play trans people in movies/TV/theatre? Or do they just want to play whatever gender they present themselves as? Or do they…

If you’re a child - under 18 - you’re calling me Ms. LauraHoltSteele until I tell/let you otherwise. I think it is a sign of a lack of respect. We’re not peers or equals.

I see what you’re saying, but I don’t think that anyone who saw that tweet seriously thought that the President had invited someone to the WH who had made a bomb, either because that would just make no sense, or because, as you said, the fuller story was already news.

I didn’t see what was wrong with the post either.

I don’t understand why simply “accused” isn’t correct. To me, “falsely accused” is only accurate when the accuser knows that the accusation is false. Surely the teachers/school/whoever should have realized that it wasn’t a bomb - and at some point did - but they did accuse him; he was accused.

I want to support “black shows” - both as a black person and a TV watcher. But why are they - or the acting on them - so bad? Where are all the good black actors on TV? (And why isn’t Shonda hiring any of them?) There are individual good black actors sprinkled throughout lots of shows, but why is it so hard to get a…

I don’t think that athletes, especially the loser, should be expected to immediately talk about the loss. Especially a loss of this magnitude. She didn’t seem to be a sore loser to me. Just someone who was maybe mad and sad and would rather take a shower (and cry, if it were me) rather than answer stupid “How do you…

Oh, I know it wasn’t a terrible call for McEnroe to make. I just felt that so many of the commentators - understandably so - seemed to take Serena’s win as inevitable. And everyone she was playing against were just some little pesky obstacle Serena had to get by. As much as I understand how Serena would get upset by…