Agreed in part, but the armed forces also employ a large number of people. Just because war is good for the economy doesn't mean should perpetually be in a state of war.... Which is pretty much what we've been doing since WW2. Like I said, I completely understand the futility of the point I'm making.

Aw, you're a parent, which automatically means you understand everything about everything. Sorry, I'll just step back into line and watch your child throw a tantrum. I'm sure you'll be able to capitalize your way out of said tantrum. And I may not be a parent, or a woman, but trivializing rape? Not cool, Madame. …

Quiet well, too.

Scouts honor, I read and don't dispute your totally valid point. As a non-parent, I get the luxury of complaining about the often-exhaustive efforts of decent parents, and I get that that the complaint comes across as unfair... But, as a resident of this world surrounded by the offspring of others, I can't help but…

A.) You are correct. I dispute none of your words.

heh. Before I left the field to be a dog groomer, I was a surgical tech at a children's hospital for 5+ years. Do I like children? Nope. Totally unamused. Do I hate kids? Nah, I have a lot of adorable nephews. Do I dislike parents whom don't actively parent/control their kids (especially under "dignified"…

Psh! Look at their faces : That child doesn't even exist in the same room as them in that moment. Sorry, but walking around the White House completely, totally constitutes keeping your child "on a leash" (be they metaphoric or actual leashes).

*Ducks head out from a snowy window*

or, they're like nearly all parents, and think their child is doing nothing wrong.

Solution : Accept yourself as you are and stop trying to sound like everyone else. I am 100% for proper grammar/speech, but trying to scrub yourself clean of identifiers only contributes to furthering the eradication of regional dialects/accents/colloquialisms. Problem solved.

Ugh. You're in the fucking Oval Office. Granted, a large number of sacks-of-crap have occupied that office, but control your friggin' child, people. No one else thinks they're being adorable : you're raising future monsters.

Half-a-billion dollars to make this video game, huh?

Please, please, PLEASE do not take fashion cue's from Lena Dunham. Lena Dunham can't even pull a Lena Dunham off properly, and neither can anyone else.

Maybe someone on here could get the word out to Mr. Cannon-Carey: I formally challenged him to a poetry-off. Sooo many of us writers out here exhaust our entire lives, flushing genuine talent into obscurity, just to get something we've written "validated" in the form of being published. But if you have a famous…

Totally a true point, I simply wanted to bring across the idea that those women were much more than simply "white women". Anglicized and not, many of their features were often changed in order to fit into the preconceptions of those who had actually commissioned the painting wanted.

"pretty damn white" doesn't mean white. And no degree, simply a life-long painter and admirer of the craft. Denying the history behind the ethnic/familial backgrounds of these women is, to me, a disservice to human beings who were depicted. Many of them were products of decades of marriages between what were once…

Which is what I meant by their features being anglicized in order to cover up the, yes, decidedly mixed-race of the women being portrayed. A lot of times, whomever was the "head" of the family, would commission a portrait, and then ask that certain distinctive racial/nationality features be changed so that the…

That sincerely wasn't meant in a typical Kinja-attack fashion, either, but simply a, 'I disagree with a small part of your point' fashion. Given the replies, I feel like my point was missed.

While I'm not disputing the decidedly Euro-centric representation of features, I do take a little issue with dismissing all of these women as "white" - a lot of them are of mixed-race, and are of a time when intermarrying of wildly disparate family backgrounds for political alliance was the norm. Yes, their features…

I wish I could tan... A golden hue would feel wonderful, I'm sure, but the sun just burns. Burns like fire should.