What an incredible combination of old-timey plantation era racism tropes, 60s civil rights era racist tropes and modern technology to capture it all.

I actually prefer "snow does not depress me" to "the cold never bothered me, anyway"

There are a couple things my curly/coarse-haired bf can't live without, so I sometimes buy online. It's great because they usually throw in some free samples and no smell headaches!

Clearly! It's one of those things you forget about until way later on in life, but now I wonder what was happening for her at that time and generally feel sad for her. Also for the kids in the class who had experienced tough losses themselves and probably had a hard time listening to all of it. I sometimes wonder…

When I was in grade 4, my French teacher had a bit of a nervous breakdown over 4-5 days, if I remember correctly. We had French for about an hour a day and one day she just started crying and telling stories about her life. Most of us egged it on the next couple times because hey, no French class.

She took an…

I think the issue also involves opportunity cost. Artists are not paid well, and I actively want them to be paid more (PAY FOR YOUR ART, PEOPLE), but they can create art and work part-time at other things. It sounds like being a cheerleader is a full time career with bad pay.

Still rockin' better diversity than Canada's Maplelea dolls... only one doll-of-colour and she is Inuit. Which is cool...but still lacking bigtime.

My school had a parenting class every year that was often made up of a few teen moms, and that's how they managed to feature teen moms in the Yearbook. No one minded.

I was thinking about that aspect of the article and how they said: " it doesn't really convey the reality of what they are going through."

I have yearbooks from high school and there is nary a realistic moment in there. The photos are all staged and we look like we're having an AWESOME time. Were we? Not 100% of…

Agreed.

Yeah, the bridesmaid issue is nuanced and complicated, but when someone doesn't invite you to their wedding? Chill out. I'll never understand why people get so angsty about not being invited to weddings. I've had a few fairly close friends who got married with just their parents in attendance and I couldn't care…

One night I spent a while reading publications of the Quiverfull movement, then I went to Quivering No More, which was for former members to tell their stories. There was a section where they asked a variety of members from a variety of situations the same questions about their lives. (how did you get involved in…

Okay, so I definitely got the condescending thing as well but I chalked it up to a Caity Weaver-esque balancing of an answer where yes, if the situation is as the Question Asker says it is, the answer is "sounds like those people are jerks", but there is a high probability that the Question Asker is also a snooty ass…

DO it! You won't regret it, aside from perhaps the actual monetary cost. It's not one of the cheaper sports. Maybe start with a charity bonspiel or a one-day thing. It's a good gateway curling opportunity.

Most interesting thing about the international versions of TBL: their titles' english translations.

I'm confused. Is he saying U of T has no other racialized professors? Because that is a joke. Right? Toronto's eponymous university has no racialized professors?

I checked the Faculty of Women's studies website and, although she is on leave, "Lisa Yoneyama" sounds like she might even be asian! And that's just…

Enough about this. Can someone whip up a GIF of Holley Mangold's face when Alison told her how much she had to lose to win the at-home prize?

It was like "hahahahaha no."

I didn't know where to throw this comment into the mix, so I'm just going to put it right beneath here.

I watched this season of the show, and they went away for one part to the Olympic training centre and did stuff, whatever. Rachel brought her own food so she wouldn't have to eat anything at the training centre. …

Is this real? I need this to become real.

This reminded me of the first minute of this clip: