AGREED! That drives me nuts!

Just here to second Laura Plantation. For the most part, they didn't sugar coat the slave thing. I say for the most part because when they talk about the family abandoning the property and coming back some time later to find their slaves still there, they say it was because the slaves cared so deeply for the family.…

Are you from the area? If you are, Laura Plantation just down the street is MUCH better.

Wow, that is really inappropriate. One option is to take a firm stance of "I don't discuss our relationship with others." Another option is the non-answer. "Why would you ask such a thing?" or "Wow."

I am watching Sister Wives (mix of guilty pleasure and anthropological interest!) and the episode is all about "giving away purity" and it's really bugging me. It's so sad seeing how hurt one of the women is by feeling like she really screwed up when she was young by "giving away" her purity... but there she is using…

Please tell me I'm not alone in absolutely adoring the film All of Me. Tomlin + Steve Martin?! Comedy gold, my friends!

I'm sure the writers have their reasons, but I'm curious as to why the first black character they introduce is a man and not a woman. Every black woman I know watches this show and we daydream about what it would be like to be in on the fantasy, finally a black character, but it's a dude.

Having also been a 14-year-old girl, if any of my friends had been having sex with a teacher, I would have known that was sketchy as fuck.

It seems to be an organizing principle of our criminal justice system that forgiveness and rehabilitation are for white dudes, while JUSTICE is for everyone else.

Black, Lupin, Pettigrew is hilariously easy.

Agreed. After watching last season it occurred to me that while the first was awesome, the rest has more or less been rubbish. Sybille's death was agonizing - truly one of the saddest things I've ever seen on tv - but then Matthew died and I realized I'd been duped. I can't even put my finger on it, but it's a…

Downton is a is a pretty atrocious show. The plots are absurd, the abuse of narrative economy is extreme, the editing is just plain sloppy, and Julian Fellowes really does seem to believe this was a better way of life.

I realize that trying to engage with someone who uses phrases like "the dating market" is probably hopeless, but here goes. The problem with this idea is that it's based on the assumption that appearance is something only men get to care about and even average looking guys should get to be with stunningly gorgeous…

No you're just keeping it shallow and adolescent. A higher caliber of male interest would be focused on what kind of person she is, how she treats people, compatibility of interests and personality. I find it hard to believe someone old enough to reach the keyboard needs to be told this. How Not to Objectify Women…

Wow, that guy is a colossal asshole. He probably wouldn't know a desirable woman if one sat on his face.

Pierce Brosnan and his wife would like you to kindly go shove it.

The experience of being told that you are not good enough to be someone's partner is terrible. They could say "Look, I'm just not attracted to you.", but no, they have to take it an egotistical step further. There ARE men out there who find a variety of sizes attractive, because they think women are sexy period. I'm…

The thing that's sad about this all is how consumerist it is. It sounds like trading in an old car for a new one. People aren't cars. They're people. Whenever we treat people like things we can buy at a store, we start treating ourselves like we're commodities too. It's really gross.

I often think about trying to unravel the cognitive dissonance and mental gymnastics it takes for people to claim that being called out for their racist behavior is only a misunderstanding at best and a deliberate smear attempt against Southerners at worst. They manage to revert accusations of bigotry against them…

YES! Fight the tidy privilege! I'm totally on board with that. And maybe you'd like to join my campaign against The Tyranny of the Early Risers?