I have a copy of Longbourn from the library right now and am so excited to read it. 

I thought Austen herself called out the Bennets for being assholes -- most of them, anyway.

And Tsar Nicholas would like to know how his family jewelery ended up in their collection as well. 

Exactly. My family has been in North America long enough to be implicated in just about everything shitty that has been done here, and I have a cousin who was kidnapped into my family via the Sixties Scoop (children stolen off of reservations and adopted out into white families). I don’t think it’s even a matter of…

I think the thought process is kind of like: “Can’t we just be cool with being racist for a while?”

My great-grandfather was involved in the “Indian Wars”, i.e. taking lands from Native Americans and killing as many as possible under the veil of fighting insurrection.

If that's scandalous, wait until they find out the Royal Family got rich off the slave trade!!!!!!

Are you me???????

It’s a bit confusing but I think the author’s going for “If this upsets you, hold onto your hats when you read about the attitudes at the time towards “exotic Jamaica” in Jane Eyre!”

Just to be certain here, no one reading this article thinks that Jane Austen wrote “Jane Eyre,” right?

Oh, for God’s sake. They aren’t advocating digging her up and dumping her bones in the river a la certain Roman emperors. She was a human being, her family were human beings, they made some terrible decisions that in her day were only beginning to be seen in their true hideous dimensions. Nobody is going to burn her…

I am ready to be thrown into a pit of fire, but I like Bethenny? She not only made a ton of money, but she donates a ton too. I think she is respectable on that front.

Assuming anyone involved in the Trump edition of Apprentice is involved, then hell no. Those motherfuckers should be dropped into the deepest pit. Try them for crimes against humanity and then lock them inside a heavily used porta potty and shoot them into the Mariana Trench. At least one of these dickheads has access…

Some people just find a look and spend the rest of their lives trying to capitalize on it, though the baby-doll look doesn’t tend to age well...

You are absolutely right. :( My little girl was so good, and all that was needed for her to learn as a puppy was gentle guidance, patience, and love. Even at the end, which came far too quickly, all she wanted was that love and comfort from us. She was the best all through the almost 13 years of her life and I miss…

This is so important and it hurts me so much that people still do not get this and think mistreating dogs for the sake of “discipline” is acceptable. It’s never acceptable and it does nothing but harm and traumatize them. Every behavioral problem is on the human, and can only be helped with calm and positive…

He also hit a puppy with a broom so hard he broke its hip and it required emergency surgery.

Public service announcement that there is no such thing as “disciplining” a dog. Mammals learn best through positive reinforcement. Punishment is traumatic and nothing more. Plus, if your puppy “does something wrong,” that’s your fault. 100% of the time. Poops on the carpet? Your fault for not taking the pup outside…

you coulda skipped straight to the metal bucket and i’d have been for the death sentence already

Of course Winnie the Pooh is a rapist in this timeline. Of course.