I would swear that was Jeff Daniels.

Nah, it was reasonable.  I could have Googled to find out whether she was still working, and didn’t.  No worries, we cool.

Oh, totally. I didn’t mean to “come at you” so harshly over this. I am just sensitive about the many (MANY!) ways in which we are all conditioned to diminish the achievements of women in our language and word choice, without even a second thought.

It appears she has now been removed from the video. When I watch the YouTube you provided there’s a weird “skip” at the 1:40 mark and no Malia. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

Until we manage to flip the patriarchy, unfortunately.  And probably not even then.

I love this too! I live nearby - that’s Somerville High School (MA) in the background.

Good to see the male gym teacher is staying on-brand in 2018.

Former child star? You can just call her an actress, which she is.

Sick comeback from a guy too afraid to approve my comment.

But it is not them who are being lampooned...

This is one of the worst cases of Economic Anxiety I’ve seen in a while.

I mean, he’s actually saying that people who talk about rural areas like that sound like assholes. And here people are confusing him with the very people he’s calling out. 

What’s the value of pointing out this particular [perceived] flawed analogy? Are you suggesting that suicidal people are less deserving of compassion than those who die of cancer? The OP was simply saying that it would be nice if we accorded the same degree of understanding to mentally ill people that we do to…

Nothing was published under Jane Austen’s name until after her death - Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were the first to appear with Austen identified as author. Everything during her lifetime was written “By a Lady.” Now, sure, her identity was an open secret, but she really wasn’t particularly famous at the time.

If you were that hypothetical eighteenth-century person buying S&S for your “boss,” the Regent, and you read the novel first yourself, you’d recognize assholery and debauchery being pinioned, and that’d do, I think. 

Imagine getting your boss into Jane Austen, knowing that he was basically a Jane Austen character and wasn’t self-aware enough to realize it.

He openly admits that he was glad he didn’t have to compete with women for jobs back in the day. He’s basically upset that now he *does* have to compete with them. Eyeroll.

Right?! This right here is the problem with privilege, there are a now a few systems put in place that allows a qualified WOMAN to be hired over a qualified MAN, and now the MAN’s feelings are hurt. How dare we subject him to hurt feelings, and having to work harder for the same position!!!

Yeah, “love of my life” tends to sound disingenuous to me. I mean, sometimes that happens, a person spends their life with one person, but if you’ve had more than one significant relationship, why denigrate those other relationships?

Yes. It completely dismisses the former relationship.