Californian here, and we were taught a ... nuanced history. I was first introduced to the internment camps in middle school as well. I think part of why is that so many of the Japanese Americans that were affected by the internment lived in California and many classmates were descendants of the interned. My dad's…

What a handsome young man! I'm so sorry you went through this, it makes me want to rage on your behalf. I'm glad you guys ended up okay in the end. Enjoy that beautiful boy!

Thank you for taking the time to give me a fuller explanation of your experience with a sorority. I'm sure it's very frustrating to have what you've experienced to be so at odds with the story the media wishes to tell. I'm not trying to be flippant or dismissive of sororities and I greatly appreciate your willingness…

This is part of why it bothered me for so long. The reason people wanted to read her diary is because of her part in a larger horror. It felt ... perhaps a bit exploitative and ghoulish?

Thank you for telling me! I'm actually very relieved to hear this, as it has been bothering me since 6th grade when I first read her diary and is what kept me from reading the unedited version that was released a while back.

I have always been quite torn regarding Anne Frank's diary. While it is an exceptionally important historic document that provides a window into the Holocaust for young people to access the subject in a way that more graphic works (Survival in Auschwitz, Night) cannot, I am very uncomfortable with the idea that she…

Interesting. Where did the country club exclusivity come from?

I'm curious about something. What is the purpose of a sorority if not to create a sense of prestige and 'better than'? I understand joining a group dedicated to a particular cause (such as feminism), but I don't see the actual point of a sorority other than to give the in-group a sense of superiority over everyone…

I don't think there is anything shameful in belonging to a sorority, but I think it would be useful if you stepped back a bit and saw that for many people they are inherently 'wrong' because of how they create prestige through exclusion and perpetuating judging people based on sexist, classist, sometimes racist…

I'm sorry some of the replies have been rather caustic in tone. I think a large part of why many feminists have an issue with sororities is because even if some do good works they are still coming from a set of principles that is inherently at odds with progressive, compassionate, inclusive thought. It is meant to be…

Why does it have to be one or the other? Why not an open adoption? She lives with the adoptive couple or her bio dad and has visitation with the other. I'm going through something like this right now and while letting my boy go is the hardest thing I've ever done, he's going to come visit for the weekend two weeks…

I hear you on that! I hated buttercream for years until I found out about Italian Buttercream made with about a 1:1:2 ratio of egg whites, sugar, and butter and about as much vanilla and rum as the emulsion will hold (as opposed to American Buttercream made with powdered sugar and just a smidge of butter). That stuff…

Have you tried French Buttercream? It's made with egg yolks instead of egg whites. It's pretty freakin' amazing.

I read one of the earlier scripts for this, the one by J. Michael Straczynski and it would have been a pretty solid version of the book. It wasn't nearly as amazing as the book, but it maintained the vignette quality and I think it might have worked with a bit of tweaking. SPOILER for that script. It made Pitt's…

THANK YOU! It was so kind of you to take so much time and thought in answering my question. You've given me a really great place to start. We don't own a console yet but I know my spouse would very much like to get one and since our nephew is moving out in a few months (sniff sniff) I'm trying to find things to fill…

Yeah, it's tricky territory. It is very easy for the conversation to get derailed or for people to misunderstand and think one is advocating for this strange a woman having it all is ... being a housewife thing that the media is trying to make happen with 'Lean Out'. Maybe because I have been blessed with a…

I'm curious, what would you suggest for someone who has always been completely baffled by gaming? I am a hardcore sci-fi geek but I stopped trying to get into games back when Lemings was a big deal and Sonic the Hedgehog was cutting edge. My kid tries to get me to play Lego Star Wars or whatnot but it just seems ...…

I feel like this is the sort of thing that's indicative of the middle-space we're currently in. Women raised by her generation will have no trouble telling the men to please shut the hell up. This is the part that women need to do for themselves, right now no amount of societal support will give women the sense of…

Fair enough. This wacky entertainment box was way less than that. And it makes phone calls!

It's the zoom lens. Those are magic.