This is like hitting some awful, awful paydirt, but I'm glad that this made the news. I hope that a reputable scholar like Danielle McGuire is able to use the entirety of her text to continue to craft and expand the narrative of sexual violence during the Civil Rights Era. This is also a really timely moment for this…

I'm SO happy that someone brought this up. THANK YOU. x

How about talking about the 9 LGBTQ kids who have committed suicide in her District in the last two years because the faculty at their high schools aren't allowed to discuss gender or sexuality? I suppose if their parents had dropped them off at Bachmann Gay Detox they would still be alive.

Hearted! I love that someone else is actually using that phrase, too! Seriously, before I even started dating my boyfriend, another guy was pursuing me and it was four months before my comprehensive exams and when I told him, "Look, not right now," he blew a gasket. He was a year OLDER than I am and he had ZERO idea…

Thanks for the compliment! :)

HEARTED. You seriously sound SO much like me, this made me smile. Seriously, you're doing just fine, this is SO refreshing and just really great to hear someone who is conscious and pushing back and doing what is truly best FOR YOU and even with all the, "I'm single and I'm going to be living with 100 cats." thing,…

The one thing I learned when I went back to grad school and the moment where I knew I was mature enough and in a good place to be back in the academy was when I was able to just let.go.of.the.timeline. Once you let go of that, everything falls into place and you can live your life rather than spending your life…

Yeah, I have this constant push/pull in academia where it's like, "You're a woman! You need to subvert the patriarchy! Don't get engaged, don't do it!" We're not at the point yet where that's an issue or we're discussing "the Future" (with a capital "F"). I just want to make sure that everything is on the table when…

Yeah, I know, at FIRST it made me self-conscious, because I wasn't sure how it would go, but now I'm really happy and aside from the occasional outburst by one of my numpty friends, it's okay. Plus, he's 6'5" and I'm 5'7" so it looks like Smurfette's dating Gargamel, so I have that... but yeah, age is just a number.…

lol As far as I know it's A OK. :) Thanks for the vote of confidence!

My boyfriend is 25 and I'm 30. He's a 3L and I'm a Doctoral Candidate. There are a lot of things that make us love each other that make the five year age difference not a big deal. I was self-conscious about it at first ("OMG When I was getting my first Master's, he was a Senior in high school. UGH.")

Wow. Wow. Wow. Yeah, I *just* started watching this past summer, so wow. Thanks for the recap!

Good, this means I can just wedge the bat wings into sleeves rather than trying to tone them up in a gym full of 20 year-old co-eds. That makes me feel better. Thank you for once-again validating my existence and yet still making me feel like shit, wedding industry.

This just made my day.

It seems like one of the pre-requisites of this show is, "Firm grip on reality not necessary." I feel like, and I've only recently become sucked into this show due to post-comps, post-teaching, summer brain fartdom, and Bravo's marathon showings, that the only one who seems to have a firm grip (or maybe "tenuous" if…

Those who know the least know it the loudest... with a bullhorn.

No, the observation you're making is perceptive in that the cultures within which Muslims are the majority commonly place a large emphasis on the extended rather than the nuclear family which creates a different dynamic than the one in European and American families. Kinship systems are the foundations of society and…

I think this is the first commentary on that horror show that I've read where it isn't directly or indirectly relating it to al-Qaeda or Muslims as a monolithic entity... except where "kick-out all the Muslims" is mentioned, this is sadly refreshing.

Where you pay out-of-state tuition and it's 2 years. That's how it costs $80K. I should also add that may or may not include living expenses. My first years of graduate school were done in the UK, so it was significantly less even with the exchange rate and living in London.

A Master's Degree is a cash cow for (cash-strapped) universities. Basically, your Master's degree that you shell out $80K for helps to pay my stipend amongst other things.