LOL it reminds me of how when people (sometimes celebrities like Shirley Maclaine) claim to have been “reincarnated” they were always a pharoah or king back in the day, never a slave or shit shoveler.  

My family was working poor, and we were even on food stamps for several months at one point, despite two parents working allegedly good full-time jobs.

It’s so annoying when the use before photos of someone in their 20's and compare them to after surgery 50-somethings. They would have changed either way.

For Collins at least, “not before the election” means“yes, immediately after the election” in a lame duck session.

When families, often black and Latinx families, move into majority white districts they are sometimes followed home by private investigators to see if they actually live in the district. If they don’t or don’t live there full time they can be tired and imprisoned for doing so.

If you are using your wealth and privilege to get your kids into college, that isn’t hatred of the system. That is the system.

going to California and dressing like a slob.

This take undersells the problem.

Did you see what he ran against?

That what reality set her off, the brilliant treat lure strategy. She already anger a black man was asking Her to follow the rules. But she really didn’t like looking foolish when Mr. Coopers tactic proved she was in the wrong.... Thats when she decided to dial a SWAT team. 

This man is my former brother-in-law, and I know him well. You could not imagine a less violent person or one who would be less interested in threatening some random crazy white woman. Not that actual bad intent or actions would be required to activate this toxic and dangerous form of racist privilege ... just Black…

All she had to do was put a leash on her dog and walk away. This interaction would have been over. But her pathological white female entitlement wouldn’t let her. Now her life is on fire (as it should be.) I hope that couple of seconds of trying to make a black man fearful was worth it all for her.

I really wish the movie had taken an extra 45 seconds to dwell on the decor of Jame Gumb’s basement which fills in a lot of backstory. You have pictures of his dalliances with various different subcultures including nazis. To someone with trans friends (or a modern cultural acceptance of trans people) when i first saw…

Tim? Tim Bisley?

Right, I’ve seen this movie many times, and Lector does explain that Jame Gumb is not trans in the traditional sense, only that he covets, he wants something he isn’t. He wants to change, to transform. I think the message was clear that his motivations for wanting to change are vastly different than the motivations of…

I find Silence of the Lambs to be much more horrifying than slasher films or films like Blair Witch because (a) it’s not inconceivable a killer like Buffalo Bill could be operating in real life (indeed, he was based on a handful of actual serial killers), and also (b) the movie didn’t show much actual violence but…

Exactly. Transformation and the motivations to achieve it are such huge themes in this movie. The larvae stuffed down the one victims’s throat was very indicative of this. We were witnessing Clarice’s transformation from a poor country gal to sophisticated FBI agent. Mr. Gumb thought he could get his lambs to stop…

Back in the day when I worked at a local Blockbuster as an undergrad, I came very close to getting in a straight up fight with a customer who insisted that the Blair Witch Project was a more terrifying movie than the Silence of the Lambs.

There were a lot of things I regret saying and having done because of that…

I don’t disagree, but I think that part of what made Stringer stupid is he believed too much in the myth of pulling you up by your bootstraps. He couldn’t see Clay Davis for what he was because he believed that there was a hard and fast division between “gangsters” and “businessmen.” I wrote more about this here: https…