“Since then, I’ve been trying to stick to restaurants that can handle my particular set of peculiarities, but, like anyone with both friends and family, I am not 100-percent in charge of those choices.”

I remember a thread where someone claimed to put the hotel channel changer in a Ziploc bag rather than risk getting infected with germs.

Prom isn’t considered a school event?

The sad thing about today’s world is that you’d be pilloried for using the n-word? Really? THAT’S the sad thing?

For people from marginalized communities, being able to look past racism/oppression/homophobia/etc. is a privilege they don’t have, though. Not everyone is as free or as safe as you are.

That argument also feels implicitly threatening. “Don’t alienate me...or I’ll go full-on racist!!!!”

I had the same response. Also...link to the Michael Harriot story? Want to read that one, too, but can’t seem  to find it.

a moment where Bridgette seems to have gotten cornrows (which will surely be addressed in the show as another clueless, shitty, dumb thing Bridgette does, cause that’s the type of show this is),

So can we have a life exercise that’s not aimed at wealthy white men?

I haven’t seen the Hitchcock film, but do you mean actually showing the confrontation in flashback, as opposed to having him just describe it?

But people aged a lot worse back then, and Mirren looks really good for her age...so maybe it would work out?

Same, I love their jeans.

I think this would have been a great list about 20 or 30 years ago. It feels a little outdated today. Today’s kids might prefer something like Jason Reynolds’s “Track” series, Sharon Draper’s books, Renee Watson’s Piecing Me Together (skews a little older than some of the books here but still great), or Rebecca…

Well, not so much the quote but the idea of someone believing that a child is just an extension of a mother.

Yes, agreed. The quote gave me the creeps, too...

What’s so bad about JFK? I fly out of it semiregularly, including a couple weeks ago, and it seemed totally fine. Not vastly different from any other airport.

The writer is saying that the show is feminist because it points out that witchcraft isn’t feminist/woman-positive, which is how it’s been depicted in pop culture.

Exactly. I don’t understand why people are doubling down on defending Warren when actual indigenous people are pointing out why what she did wasn’t OK. Well...I guess I do understand, but it’s frustrating.

It counts and still matters because there are a disturbing number of people who believe the bigotry you’re espousing.

until “we had all of our eggs in one basket