I feel like MOST dogs are super loving and devoted to their owners, while cats are more hit or miss. Both animals are capable of equal generosity of spirit, it is just something I see more in dogs than cats. My roommate's cat was amazing (until my roommate figured she was allergic; the cat now lives with her mom and I…

People who claim not to "see color" are idiots and wind up perpetuating a whole lot of racist bs while trying to be/seem progressive or whatever, yes. And complaining about one's racist relatives doesn't earn anyone a cookie.

living in a racist society?

Yes, playing dumb can work great! Often, people just get self-conscious and embarrassed and shuffle away.

Crabbe's Ginger beer is amazing. It tastes like old-timey gingerbread, and is alcoholic.

Well, "didn't have a negative impact on infant health" is probably not accurate. 1) High infant morality rates 2) since you couldn't really compare infants w alcohol to infants without, since all infants were exposed to alcohol 3) there were so many health problems, who knows what was related to what exactly. And I…

Yes! Dudes sometimes get so paranoid about laughter; it is almost *always* a very good sign.

Weirdly, I like being thrown around, held down, bitten, bruised, you name it, but I absolutely *hate* even the slightest bit of name-calling.

She clearly has no idea what it is. If you *are actually experiencing real symptoms*, and have not induced these symptoms yourself (i.e. you're not giving yourself very small amounts of bad things to make yourself seem ill), you do not have munchausen syndrome. You might have things happening in your body making you…

Uh, well, if she's *on* antidepressants, and is bipolar, then either a) she was put on SSRIs, which seriously fuck bipolar people up (so maybe that) or b) her behavior should have started to become less, not more, erratic. There are a whole lot of other things that could cause that behavior, and in a totally off the…

PARABLE OF THE SOWER IS SO DAMN GOOD.

Adding to the hugs

She sounds like a HORRIBLE doctor. Not only illegal accessing your files, but the shit she's said to you is just awful. DO bring up what she said with your doctor, but not bc she's probably right, but because you should talk to someone supportive.

What?

Rachel Dratch is so horribly under-appreciated.

(Also, she is wrong about what "Death of the Author" means.)

I mean, I understand making a division between the blatant racism of really horrible assholes, and the implicit biases of *most* Americans. But, yeah.

Other than Dumbledore, I agree with you, although I think that was there without Rowling saying anything; that a lot of people assumed he was straight bc nothing explicit was said either way is bc we're such a heternormative culture, but there were a lot of signs fairly consistently throughout the series. As to the…

Ehhhh death of the author is kind of out. Works are now usually seen in the context of the author's other works, their own historical period, and circumstances of the author's life, but not what the author intended.

Right, and when authors write books in a way that so tightly focalizes through one character, there are things that have to implied by the text but not understood by the narrator (like MOST of what happens in Huck Finn, bc Huck doesn't understand most of what he tells us).