I have to say as an adult rewatching this, I am very disturbed by the child in “pimp imagery” and also throwing a party at 13 without adult supervision. Very upset.

YEAHHHHHHH yeeehawww!

No! Do not sully the name or image of Shaki by comparing Kylie to her!

Yeah, the “redneck backwater” thing is some bullshit, especially from progressives who use it as a convenient way of ignoring their own privilege.

I’m hoping for something like what happened to the Democrats in 1968: Shitshow of a convention, resulting in a weakened, deeply divided Republican Party. But without the preceding assassination.

Gah! I had temporarily forced myself to forget about the all the grift & scandals with Easley & friends. There are so many smart people here in NC - why can’t we do better?

There was an entire subplot last season about that...

Agreed. As a woman in engineering and a fan of the show, they don’t hide the fact that there are few women in the business. They even have events where women are hired to be there, which is a real thing I’ve read about. They lampoon the dick-swinging dysfunctional culture quite often.

.......Chapel Hill grad replies: ........(whistles theme song from “Andy Griffith”)......

Same! I’m a born and raised North Carolinian and I love our state, but then shit like this and Pat McCrory’s entire existence make us look TERRIBLE!

You can’t spell “Choose Life” without “f-o-o-l-i-s-h.”

I found it not long ago that my niece has a purity ring from her dad. I don’t think she wears it anymore (she’s 21 and has a serious boyfriend and I think the “promise” ring he gave her trumped dad’s ring) but I went all Feminist Aunt on her and gave a whole talk about how her body and her sexuality belong to HER…

This happens in Australia in quite a few fundamentalist Muslim polygamous families. One guy in Sydney had four wives collecting unemployment benefits.

40k a year here, not including my husband (but I make more than he does). We do “ok” but certainly not “well.”

OMG I made the mistake of mathing out how much I was getting paid per hour back when I was working as a high school teacher. Between teaching, marking, prepping, coaching school sports (required!), lesson planning, etc.... it was $2/hour.

This raises a good point - how the fuck does anyone ever afford to have children???