I saw that post. What I noticed most about it was at the beginning he said the officers saw his military ID. THAT’S what made the difference, dude. I’ve been in cars that were pulled over for good reason and also gotten off with a warning...because the driver showed military ID. The average man simply showing respect…

No, he does not. I tried to explain the difference in American culture between the terms Hispanic and Latino and how most folks were going to label him based solely on his skin color anyway...but I just got yelled at for disrespecting him by comparing him to those other brown people. :/

I was young and stupid. He was very charismatic and charming at first. It’s surprising to me now how long he managed to keep his crazy to himself. Live and learn, eh. :P

My ex is one of the 25%. He’s originally from Bolivia, is extremely prejudiced against Mexicans (well, most Central Americans too actually, to the point he HATES being called Hispanic because he feels it lumps him in with them), and thinks Trump is a straight talker who tells it like it is...so, yeah. Now I have even…

Yeah, I was sufficiently scared enough by the rest of the cast of (mostly predatory) characters she encountered in the movie to know that riding the rails wasn’t a good life plan for me. Sigh.

Right?! I must have been only seven or eight when I first saw it but I legitimately couldn’t decide who I was more into -his character or the wolf. I still have a soft spot for John Cusack thanks to this movie. Him and Christian Bale in Newsies, man. Those were my Disney Channel dreamboats. :P

“And even if they do ask her, who are they gonna believe? Girl’s got a reputation and all. Amiright?” I suppose there are always the guys on the team who claim to be banging the head cheerleader when they aren’t. So, I suppose, it could be some next level variation on that...but it’s still a dumb thing to lie about.

Are we sure he’s not been catfished by someone claiming to be Rihanna though? It just seems like a dumb thing to lie about.

Work politics have gotten really brutal lately, to the point that I was crying in my supervisor’s office this week because of the personal attacks and undermining. I’m about to drop down to half time to go back to school for my Master’s degree and kind of just want to quit all together. (This is a bad emotionally…

I go really long to super short at least once every 3 years or so to donate hair. (Mine grows really fast and my mum died of cancer so, yeah, it’s just something I do now.) Anyway, I’m also heavy and think my rounder face shape works fine with either hair style, it’s heavy bangs that I avoid. The first day or two…

When I was young (22) I agreed to move in with an older cousin (33) as we were both poor college students in need of co-housing. The first thing she told me, after the lease was already signed, was that she was “too old to compromise on ANYTHING in her home environment” and thus began the worst roommate experience of…

Stories like this are so very important in showing how social theory becomes practice. One of the most interesting classes I took in undergrad was a history of colonization in the Pacific told through the various controls placed on native bodies - everything from what they put on to wear in the morning to where they…

Which is why the show will eventually be back on the air. If the show was all about exposing the bad apples on the family tree, they simply wouldn’t be able to get A list celebrities to sign on. The choice to focus on a different relative who they thought was more interesting WAS a legitimate storytelling choice for…

Pretty sure they just mean “Brand-Protector”. The independent fact-checker will really just be there to make sure the show’s producers don’t make PBS look bad again by choosing “good narrative” over full disclosure of the facts - which is what the producers claimed they were doing with Affleck’s segment. Bottom line…

No. Sorry, cranky pants. For most families with young kids going out to a restaurant together is usually a special occasion kind of thing, like Sunday Brunch or someone’s Birthday Treat, that can easily (if begrudgingly) be canceled or walked out on if need be while going to the grocery store is a weekly chore that…

I think you’re right to call out the tourist/traveler aspect of the story because it does add some nuance to the situation. It may well be “tourist entitlement” but it also may be a lack of alternatives and new parents learning as they go. Hear me out... most of the time, I avoid taking my two year old out to…

Yeah, the thing is though that there’s actually a school of thought that very seriously believes young children are not fully human and shouldn’t be treated as such. I got this book as a gag gift when my son turned a year old. It’s a parenting book from 1983, the year that I turned one year old. The following excerpt…

I didn’t like talk therapy either until I went to a this one guy that was very much “what is the problem? How can I help solve it? Here are some real world goals/steps to take and a different way to think about it. Problem solved? Good. We’re done. Call next time you have a problem I can help you with.” It was…

There was a pretty good opinion piece in Indian Country Today about this whole thing and how it compares to the appropriation of Native identity by white people. It brought to mind the documentary White Shamans & Plastic Medicine Men that I watched in a college indigenous cultural survival class.

I don’t know. I don’t think tacky clothing is the sole domain of the poor. I know plenty of middle class grandmothers who buy their grandkids closets full of sparkly/garish Disney character covered crap. And as a low-income single parent my kid has two of those 100% recycled trucks because more financially secure…