Hmm. Well, it's possible I may have occasionally fallen asleep while I was getting my Masters degree in Canadian History. I mean, I spent 4 yrs as an undergrad and 2 years as a graduate student, taught university classes in Canadian History and wrote 2 theses on the Canadian involvement in WWI and WWII - a girl has…

I consider myself to be a relatively informed Canadian and have not heard a peep about this... aside from right now.

cool.

This right here is what happens when you let teenage libertarians come up with your laws. Good God.

Even better question, doesn't the 13th Amendment make it illegal for any company to be "owned".

You are saying some very problematic things and I'm not sure I'm the person to educate you because I'm only loosely educated on this issue. But I'll try.

If you're struggling to exist you either a) are not getting paid "very well" or b) do expensive drugs or live purposefully outside your means in some other way. I'm…

I think that we miss the importance of grappling with rape in those earlier historical romances, though.

Oh, fuck off you gigantic piles of fucking shit for humans. There are goddamn programs to help with things like reactive attachment disorder and if you had contacted DHS with your concerns and let them know about the bind you were in, they could have helped you find appropriate support and probably worked along with…

This all stems from the concept that *children aren't really people.*

How many times do you hear the same sort of person speak of their offspring as if they were some sort of animate property instead of as if they were fully human creatures?

On such a massive scale. I mean we have a Prime Minister that delivers an apology for the atrocities of the "past" in regards to residential schools (even though we are only a single generation removed from their existence) and can turn around and claim to the world that Canada's never committed any human rights…

Put on a dress. Act ladylike. Be respectable. Fix your hair. Pull up your pants. Don't speak out of turn. Try to fit in. Have a name people can pronounce. Don't be flashy. Don't interrupt. Listen before you talk. Work harder. Get another degree. Develop more expertise. Tone it down. Wear nicer clothes. Make sure your…

This has plagued me my whole life. I am super passionate about things and when I start expressing myself that way I get labeled as "crazy" or "angry". Really?! I am "crazy" because I want women to have complete control over their own bodies and don't want the government to make decisions about my body for me?!

I think one of the biggest mistakes Democrats and the generally left leaning among us have made over the last couple of decades is being too nice.

I'm so sick of strong, passionate women being compared to animals or children when they are displaying their opinions.

I found the hoopla and sheer passion of people's responses to the dress fascinating as a possible teaching tool for discussing the interaction of fact/physical reality and perception. I still think that the people most freaked out or hostile about the color of the dress are those most uncomfortable with the idea that…

Wait, there are actually people in the projection room?
#memoriesofamisspentyouth

sigh... real life is so much duller than movies. Our villains aren't flamboyant evil geniuses, they're just dopey, smug white dudes with lapel pins.

And FINALLY Jezebel mentions this story.

It's bothering me that this isn't chronological. My favorite part of looking at historical fashions is watching the slow/slowish progression of change...

The phrase "American exceptionalism" makes me want to exceptionally shoot my American self