I'm guessing this is one of those offensive hoop skirts. This photo was taken in 1860.

I went to UGA and right before I started there (in '93) KA got in trouble for "hiring" little boys from the projects a few streets over to pick cotton in their front yard during their Old South party. When I was there, they constructed walls every year around their whole property so no one could see what they were…

In Alabama, we have numerous Southern Belle "groups."

The popularity of the ante-bellum era continues to amaze me. It's not only in the South, either. I attended a lot of historical re-enactment events (it was for my job, don't judge me!) and I was surprised to see how many Americans re-enacted the ante-bellum period. I saw more Confederate uniforms than Union…

Swastikas were a symbolic staple for many centuries before the Nazis, Elizabeth Sayers. Doesn't mean Germans should wear them. Context is everything, and the context of those outfits at your school is the tie to the antebellum South. More, it's the tie to the Confederacy- the boys weren't wearing early 19th-century…

"In no way do hoop skirts have any relation to racial intolerance...."

Unfortunately I don't have any information to give you, but I wanted to tell you that you are an amazing person for helping her out as much as you have already. She's very lucky to have you in her life. Don't give up on her.

if the subway pulls in and the car in front of you looks empty during a normal workday(while the cars that have passed have a good amount of folks in them) DO NOT go into the car! Go into another one, you'll be glad you did.

I have some friends who did that ten years ago and they are still quite contentedly together. Obviously I don't know all the ins-and-outs of their life together, but they seemingly have a stronger and healthier marriage than many couples I know who married out of romantic love.

I don't think there's anything wrong with marrying for companionship and economic solidarity. People used to do that a lot more, because they pretty much needed to.

I've had a hard weekend. Yesterday afternoon, my beloved Aunt Gerri died. She was diagnosed with leukemia in January. She had fallen in her apartment and used her LifeAlert and was taken to the hospital. After a CT scan and some bloodwork, they found the cancer. Since she was 90 years old, treatment would do nothing…

When Julie Andrews dies I'm going to lock myself in a sealed room and drown myself in my own tears. She is a treasure and I fucking love her.

I'M SO ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT

HERE'S MY BODY TO OBJECTIFY.

Jesus. Wake me when this woman has a damn clue.

Bless her heart.

There was tons of coverage here, and around the internet, even TV, but Collins admitted it and sorta withdrew himself from the public. Cosby's story has more longevity because he keeps denying it and women keep coming forward, and he arrogantly keeps performing and doing interviews. Plus, Cosby had had enough…

Both come off as pretty grounded, sweet, chill young women in interviews.

I have literally never had the feeling that I need to see what my child would look like, be like, act like, etc. Not knocking anyone who does. Just for me, it's strange. I'm more interested in raising a kid, not birthing one so adoption just seems as natural to me.

The charm of 1930s Germany mixed with the proud heritage of Jewish Europeans! Charm of the early 1900s Turks and the proud heritage of Armenians! Charm of the antebellum south and the proud heritage of African Americans!

Can't wait for their follow-up, equally tone-deaf collection that juxtaposes the Old World Charm of Leopold II of Belgium with the proud heritage of the Bakongo people.

There is no ethnic cleansing. Some site on the net stole these from me, by not sourcing them to me. I created all of these and more (ones for men) right here: [pmsol3.wordpress.com]