Aloise Corbaz comes to mind... she had schizophrenia so she was maybe erratic. Unica Zurn had some psychiatric symptoms too I think.

Emily Dickinson? Well not in the erratic way. But she’s my favorite “crazy” female artist. I recently read a book proposing that she had epilepsy and this explains her reclusive behavior. She liked to hide in her room and send out poems she dashed off to the company in the parlor.

Yea me neither re the beauty ideal. I think people look best with whatever color skin nature gave them. And to me, white people who tan just look... orange. My friends who have darker skin are natural looking when they tan, tho of course they shouldn’t tan either for health reasons! But yea, white people with a tan…

I am pretty sure there is a passage where the kids are all meeting in Diagon Alley after the summer holiday... Hermione went to France I think? And she is described as looking “very brown.” Could be a holiday tan, could be her skin 24/7. I think in books where a character doesn’t need to be a specific race as an…

Wow that sounds really interesting! Were there a lot of pictures of aging women in their WASPy glory? I’m picturing a lot of helmet hair...

I’ll look up the women you mentioned in any case, that’s a start. Thanks for the info! I’m always interested in learning about the ways little societies pop up within the greater community, with their own rules and customs and this seems like such a case. The ‘09 article describes some pretty typical school hazing…

Ah I see. This has piqued my curiosity - do you know any articles or references about the Miss Porter’s culture that contributed to Jackie’s vocal signature? You must have learned about it from somewhere I figure, so if you recall...? I do see the New York Times did an article on the culture of Miss Porter’s in 2009,…

Ah, I am reading some things which said she had the mid-Atlantic accent, or trans-Atlantic accent, and at least on wikipedia they are saying that this accent was acquired in American boarding schools pre-1960s. How does the boarding school affectation differ from the mid-Atlantic in your understanding?

Is that the same thing is the “mid-Atlantic accent”?

I don’t recall much about the plot of this as I saw it years ago, but I do recall thinking Marilyn was amazing in it. And very different from the majority of her roles. Wish she could’ve had been given range in her roles... would have been interesting to see what she did with them.

Easier/neater looking storage I think? Plop it on the shelf and it looks more visually stunning that a used tissue wad of sheet? No wrinkles when you finally put it on the bed? These are my best guesses.

Okay, so you don’t have a good argument in other words.

Yes I understand that is what you think. I’m asking you to justify it, preferably with scientific study, because without an explanation backed by facts, it comes off as an unreasonable distrust and dislike for men. My perception is that you are more or less saying that if a woman has a fantasy about being raped, sex…

How does that make any sense? People have consensual kinks. A woman has a fantasy about being raped about works out how it will go down with her male partner. Do you assume that all guys have to be dragged into rape play when their girlfriend finds it hot, because no decent guy could ever be turned on by that in a…

Please never sit on a jury.

Is it that strange for a teenager, with impaired judgement as a result of being a teenager, to lend something very expensive that he didn’t pay for himself and therefore doesn’t have to feel the full consequences of its loss in the event that it is stolen/damaged, to someone he doesn’t know well? Actually I don’t know…

But what do you think his motive would be?

Have you tried “sleep cycle”? I believe it is available for android, definitely iphone. It wakes you up in your lightest sleep phase by detecting your movement as you sleep. It requires that you to keep the phone by your head as you sleep. I love it though, I don’t feel groggy when I wake up. And it tracks your sleep…

It would be great if a campaign could be started to mail her wigs. If everyone mailed her a nice long wig the prison mail system would soon be swamped with them. I doubt she’d actually receive them or get to wear them, but it would be a great way to show solidarity with her dealing with this nonsense.