1) Versailles was a tourist attraction as it was being built and when it was inhabited by the various Louis. If you were clean, decently dressed and were respectable you could enter the grounds, check out the garden, look at the various assembly and state rooms, and even watch the King and Queen at one of the open…

*screeches* RIGHT? RIGHT?

“Salzman admitted to enslaving a woman for two years, addressing the courtroom with, “I knowingly and intentionally harbored Jane Doe 4, a woman whose identity is known to me, in a room in the home in the Northern District of New York.” She added that she also “threatened to deport Jane Doe 4 back to Mexico if she did…

I love my afro, but she truly does have amazing hair. 

Oh, this brings back some memories! These are cool!

That she has to spell it out so cleanly says something about how the media latches on to the very people who bemoan ‘pc culture’.

Yup. We have indigo growers in Portland (because of course we do) and they work they do utilizing both West African and Japanese techniques is amazing! :-) and most people who have some space & access can do it too!

Aizome and wabi sabi- but for the masses. Hmm.

Ah- you were first! I was about to say this is all about aizome and wabi sabi.

Right. Have a ring if you want- but not FOR the ring, but for the memento mori.

1) Oh yes- it is an idea that women are property and that engagements are a signifier that this girl is ‘taken’ (purchased).

THIS. I am about to buy oversized glasses, I have grown out my kinky curly hair and I wear pantsuits. I basically look like my mom from the 70s and I like it.

Yeah!

Part of the con! I did forget this bit! Thank you for the refresher.

CRAP! I did forget about that bit, and yes, that does hurt. My apologies- and yes, liking her moxie IS part of the con!

I realize there’s some crime here, but I wonder, if she were an actual “aristocrat” who used her status to scam things: a) would it be a crime (or a PR opportunity for the “aggrieved” parties)? and b) if it were a crime, would it ever be prosecuted, or would it be hushed up?

The cruelty is the point.- Adam Serwer.

Rich people commoditize sex, so the people who frequant those hotels- usually for high priced sexual encounters and/or adultery- dgaf about the ordinary joes/janes in Brunei who will be killed or harmed by this.

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This is what misgynoir looks like in hip hop. Black male artists will absolutely use Black women’s bodies, labor and skills to advance their careers- and if one of them asks questions about behavior or has any criticism, Black women are abused or shoved to the side.