Lifehacker hasn't failed me yet! I can literally search for just about anything and I'll usually find it...within reason.

Credit card companies charge the seller a percentage of the sale plus a per-transaction charge (debit cards have similar fees, but they're lower). Costco may be able to negotiate a better rate than the local MomNPop, but those fees still cut into their profits. Which means they'd have to pass that on to their members.…

I'm super impressed that you created that out of kitchen materials at seven years old. Impressed and jealous at your creative genius.

I agree with your statement, but I don't think that Sapphire was trying to push Precious as a representation of the black community, or the black female community as a whole, or even her entire student body, I think she was trying to faithfully show some of the problems a section of her students faced and act as a…

I don't remember the fried chicken scene from the book either, but I've not read it in well over two years. (Lee Daniels may have added that!) Sapphire started the novel back in 1993 (released in 1996 apparently) so I am wondering if the comparisons to more recent, also dramatic films is unfair.

The book is that way too, although it's written in the first person. Precious has been let down by pretty much every adult in her life and has little to no education. She does sort of bloom into a more thoughtful person near the end of the novel when she finds herself through her classes, but up till that point…

I know right.

Sometimes, the best dude defense? Is a dude offense.

Better access to guns would've helped, she could've killed them and saved us all a headache knowing that these fucks exist.

And all the people who miiiight acknowledge that her ptsd is real only because she's a veteran, but would otherwise dismiss it because it's "just" from sexual assault and that's disrespectful to people who've seen combat and blah blah. Those are my favorites. The ones who think they get to decide who gets to have ptsd…

Totes. It's in her autobiography from the eighties.

"Who are you wearing?" was never a question that got asked on the red carpet in the 70's.

Patty Duke won Best Supporting in '62 wearing her First Holy Communion dress, which had been dyed pink for the occasion.

I've seen it. It's....OK.

Actually, at that time—until the mid-80s and Cher, really—all the celebs just bought dresses off the rack and did their own makeup for the Oscars. (ETA: Occasionally, a costume designer they worked with would make something up for them—like in the Edith Head studio days.) Many of them talk about it—Meryl Streep, Jodie…

I'm really honestly confused as to why you're so adamant and full of hate about this. It was her experience with her parent - and a common one - that you are always in a childlike position to them and with them. How many times have you heard a parent say "Oh, they'll always be my little girl/boy to me!"? The…

It's absolutely a spectrum, and i'm kind of reeling here, just realizing how pervasive and insidious that attitude is, even among the men in my own life. We do often force teenage girls to draw the physical boundary between themselves and their male relatives who feel free to test those boundaries. We make them say…

It's kind of like you missed the multiple paragraphs and points at which the author pointed out that no matter how old you are, you operate as the child with your parent.

"...the child in the relationship is vulnerable in a way that the parent simply isn't, even when grown up. A person approaches their parent in hopes that they'll be taken care of, looked after, that their parent will have their best interests at heart."

Consent is a simple word that overlooks so much. When a parent asks their kid whether they want to have sex, does the answer matter? Isn't the question wherein the wrong lies?