People always double-take when I tell them I'm from the south, because I don't have an accent. Then they ask why I ditched it. I tell them that it's a secret and that I'll share eventually.

Yes thank you! I just made a similar comment in the greys without pictorial proof. Their redneckism is a marketing ploy. This is why I was somewhat surprised. This is not a family of rednecks. This is an affluent, educated family who happens to be in an industry that appeals to rednecks. I thought they were better…

I think you're giving them too much credit. I think they're doing what rednecks call "puttin' on."

From what Robertson has been saying, A&E has been editing out all of his "good Christian statements" on the show. That tells me that he is probably saying things like this constantly but editors at A&E have been wisely leaving these little nuggets of hillbilly nonsense on the cutting room floor to avoid hurting their…

Keep in mind that this is the Duck Dynasty family about twelve years ago. There is some major Larry the Cable Guy / George W. Bush faux redneckism going on here.

They need to hurry up and block it before people realize that it didn't destroy society and that it actually has no negative impact on their lives whatsoever.

Yeah, if ever there was a case in which AN EMERGENCY FUCKING STAY was needed, this is it. Lord knows our world is so perfect that what Christians need to worry about most two days before Christmas is keeping potential gay families divided. Gross.

Progress makes me so happy. I never thought I would see legal gay marriage in my life. I have lived to get married and now see evenly staunchly conservative states and people waffle on this issue. No matter how this one ends, it is still progress. Congrats Utah.

It amazes me how republicans are still trying to squeeze the toothpaste back into the tube on gay marriage. Now the U.S. has a situation where state laws contradict federal rights and some gay people are legally married while others cannot marry because they`re gay. It is an unsustainable mess that is has only one…

It is clear that people with money or who have never ever faced any type of hunger have no idea what they are talking about. Fuck these people.

Aside from all that, should the absence of people "literally starving" be the standard that a developed, wealthy country should settle for? What's next? A public health initiative against cholera?

As I've pointed out on Gawker, if they really want to decrease the amount of welfare participants, they need to increase minimum wage. Unless of course the goal is to literally have people starving on the streets.

Perhaps you need some media studies training. The SHOW codes her character "Shaw" as white. She enters and moves through spaces freely, with no concern to being stopped or standing out because of her race or ethnicity. The only time she seems awkward in an environment is when she is asked to act "conventionally…

Did you miss the word "coded"? Apparently so.

I quit watching POI for the same reason. I started watching because of her. (I didn't start from the first episode, b/c people kept saying that her role wasn't that big. I started watching regularly with "Get Carter.") I miss the show. Or, I guess what I miss is the show that it used to be, not "Adventures of Root…

That's absolutely untrue. If they can figure out how to get the Irish car boy married into the family, they fan integrate a black person into the plot. How about a Jazz singer who found solace from racism back home performing in Europe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_A…

You forgot Taraji P. Henson who was incredible as Det. Joss Carter in Person of Interest.

One of my dad's friends was raised Mormon. One day her mom took her to the doctor because her period had stopped. The doctor asked about sex, and she said no, of course not. She was a virgin. The doctor and the mom left the room to talk about some of the possibilities. That is when the nurse asked "do you know what…

I like snarky comments as much as the next guy, but there are some implications here that are pretty disturbing about women and education and bodily autonomy, and I'm having a hard time taking this story lightly.

This actually makes sense to me. I believe I lost my virginity to my first boyfriend when I was 19 because I refuse to acknowledge that it was the man who raped me at 18. I am 31 now and still don't accept that it was actual sex. Should I have become pregnant, I probably would have claimed virginity, too.