My dad grew up on 22nd avenue. I'm sure there are still kids around. The thing is, my grandparents could afford to *buy* a place there, even though he was a janitor and she stayed at home with five kids. I know that everything has changed. Just please don't try to convince me that the average family can afford to…
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I'm local too. My grandparents moved to the city during WWII. No one in my family lives there now. It's a shame. I'm in the East Bay. You guys are going to love El Cerrito.
Basically - I currently live in the Mission - pretty much the only place you see kids and locals and frankly, if you don't own your house, like your family bought it back in the 70's, you are fucked. I was born and raised in the area and my husband was born and raised in the city and we would not be able to live in…
Glad to hear it. Last time I was on Valencia I barely recognized it.
These shorts should be banned too.
NO ONE gets away with a Navajo-blanket poncho who is not a Navajo.
Plus he is the only character more annoying that Piper on OITNB.
Cool, so you're going to continue to only engage with the portions of the discussion where you can whine about taxes. Glad we had this talk.
we have a term for non-power-involving racism: racial prejudice.
No, racism does not work both ways. Prejudice works both ways. But not racism. We're going to do math again, okay?
His entire complain is there aren't enough men on a show about a women's prison. That's his entire point."
That's actually not his entire point. A large chunk of the article is devoted to critiquing how men on the show are represented: "According to Orange Is the New Black, though, men in prison are "super-predators"…
Especially because his main argument isn't that there aren't enough men on OITNB, it's that the men who are portrayed are reduced to unsympathetic stereotypes, and that the show focuses too much on individuals and not enough on systemic injustice in the prison system. I haven't watched the show and have no idea if…
I do not think Madeleine's article, and certainly not the majority of the comments here, are even vaguely constructive. A constructive response to this piece could certainly be written, but this isn't it. This is click bait. Berlatsky's argument is really about the prison system's victimization of black men ("part of…
Why is he "on the hook" in the first place? He's making points here about our gendered understanding of victimization in prisons and the legal system, a very real issue for millions of mostly-not-white men in the US. I don't think it was the best idea to make this point using OITNB but a whole shitload of people are…
Maybe you should use your curiousity to actually look... Berlatsky is a feminist, and he writes about feminism and women in the media all the time.
It's been happening for centuries so.
just. fucking. don't. click. on. the. story. eh?
Yeah, the clutch being "it's as simple as the *bride* saying"... As a bridesmaid, you don't have a say in what expensive shit will be involved, and often don't find out until long after you have agreed to get involved.
Yeah, its so terrible to ask people to think about what they are asking of friends.