Thats funny, i was just thinking when i wrote my comment that you could divide by “had AIM, had a myspace account, or had facebook” or “remembers 9/11" and get a pretty accurate split too.

I agree. If i had my way, gen x would go up to ‘88-ish, gen y would go up to around 2003 and z from then on.

I hear ‘81 to 2001 or ‘85 t0 2005 a lot.

Younger millennials too if they grew up in a rural area. My cell wasn’t reliable around my home until 2010-ish.

You could hear a faint echo on mine growing up.

Absolutely. I admit my opinion is somewhat colored by this being a fairly popular plot in romantic novels (I pictured For Such A Time when i read the title of this article and cringed so hard, i might have sprained something), and it is very very bad.

Youre absolutely correct, but I am still concerned about imparting a 21st century attitude on a character in the 1930s. xenophobia would be the norm at the time, at least societally. So, an accurate character from this time period would likely hold some fuck up views that it would be the female characters job to…

I think its possible to do right, but I think its exponentially harder to do as a romance. I would worry that it would place too much emphasis on love righting his attitude, implying that he only changed his attitude because someone he cares about is affected which isnt awesome. Also, i don’t want to put the girl in…

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I see what you’re saying, but am worried that this puts the burden on the female character to just accept the past actions of the male character. I cant imagine a relationship where a minority has to patiently explain why genocide is wrong and forgive past actions of a nazi, would be romantic. Also, i would be…

Most werent mustache twirling villians in kids cartoons, but germany is the 1930s and 40s is a good example of what happens when you let cowardice and xenophobia rule a country. The big issue with the mustache twirling characterization imo is the implication that those people were evil and this could never happen…

It would be super hard to handle it well. I see three options: 1). Nazi is a decent guy who then becomes the white savior who both acknowledges that everyone in his social circle is basically evil and fight for good. Not horrible, but not great either. 2). Nazi is a decent guy, but minimizes the actions (or the film…

Yep, some antibiotics lessen the effectiveness if BC! Spread the news!

At least require guys pay for birth costs. Ive never once heard of a child support bill (where parenta split up pre-birth) that required men to pay half of the birth costs. Just like with everything else, guy pays what he can based on a judges opinion and then women ate onligated to make up the difference if it…

In abortion rights specifically No uterus, no opinion is perfect. Im with you on other womens issues 100%, but the whole point of that statement is you dont get to legislate and talk down to people on what they should be doing, if you are unable to experience it yourself. Its easy to say “well it i were x, i would do…

I completely agree on the need to fight and absolutely will. And i really hope we do win because maybe it’ll mean the next democrat president will be able to get more done. Can you imagine Obama’s presidency if he didnt have to spend so muck time un-fucking all of Bush’s policies?

Its not like theres 1 editorial writer. If someone points out that there are no women chefs in a restaurant do you point out all the waitresses?

By favorite do you mean, “had to pause the video and take a deep breath becore continuing”? If so, then me too.

Im not lowerIng my expectations, merely getting a start on plan b and c if needed and warning people now that a failure in 2018 doesnt mean to pack up your toys and go home. I admit this mentality comes from being a liberal in a solid red state where the democrats regularly get shitwhipped every election and we are…

It doesn’t take any more special recruiting to find a qualified AA writer than any other qualified writer though? Its not like theres a binder full of outstanding white reporters at their disposal and only the so-so African Americans applied while the qualified ones mysteriously chose not to apply.