And many, many of the people rioting at stonewall were transgender women as well as people of color.

Oh, I agree with that - lots of the other stuff happen in the mid-20th century, like the construction of monuments, the whitewashing / rationalization of textbooks etc. A lot of “feel good” nostalgia stuff started then that helped gloss over what was begun in the 1800s. And a lot of the rewriting of racist stuff to…

I read it in high school but re-read it two years ago, so it was fresh in my mind. But my high school teacher did point out stuff she found problematic about Atticus even back in high school, with a bit of a sniff - “well, here’s what many people think, but I would challenge you to form your own ideas.” I think it’s…

I think it’s kind of part and parcel of the same thing, really. And when TKAMB was published, I can see the editors of the time - the folks who pulled Scout’s story apart from Jean Louise’ story and made it a separate narrative - wanting to believe in the white savior version Atticus because that’s what we wanted to…

It was going to be published when she died anyway. There’s no way that someone wouldn’t have put it out posthumously. I’m sure there are people other than Harper Lee making money from it, but at least the bulk of the money goes directly to her instead of to other people after her death.

THIS. So much. I wondered if I was the only person who actually read TKAMB to begin with, because it’s right there in the text.

You know they changed those lyrics between the time I sang them as a kid and when my niece learned the song? I was watching Sesame Street with her and sang “One of these things doesn’t belong” instead of the new “One of these things just isn’t the same” and my little niece looked at me in horror for singing that…

Okay, now can we sit down and just explain some other stuff to Whoopi where she’s said problematic shit?

GREAT. Now can we release trans women who are being systematically raped and assaulted, please???!!!

Yeah, and my cousin felt absolutely terrible for dragging the whole thing out, too. She had heard rumors about an older sibling, but when she finally got the courage to ask questions, she re-traumatized her mom, and then had to walk her mom through the “it wasn’t your fault. Mom don’t you know what date rape is?”…

Sadly the truth for so many young women. My aunt has a similar story. She was date-raped by a boyfriend and became pregnant & gave the baby up for adoption. It wasn’t until years later that she actual started calling what happened what it actually was. She thought she just didn’t do “a good job stopping him.” How the…

If you read Vickie Blue’s comment on the events, you can see she is very gently “calling in” Joan and Cherie -

From what they have said, they felt like they didn’t have the power to stop it, and their livelihoods depended on the man who was the perpetrator. Do go back and read the Huff Po story - two adult men were interviewed and said what they saw, and talked about the huge guilt they had at not coming forward for all these…

Cheries story doesn’t make sense. She wrote an accurate account of what happened in in her memoir , and showed it to Jackie, who took legal action to stop it. That same account showed up without Jackies name in another book. So if she now claims it didn’t happen, how did she know the exact details to write about it?…

How is Fred Armisen going to take it that Carrie is stepping out on him with Piper? I know Fred and Carrie are a “platonic” couple, but he seems like he’d be a bit of a dick about it anyway.

He could at least put the camera on his head like any decent goPro user.

I have one. This is the reason why I can take decent profile pics of myself now. But I do that at home; I don’t take it out in public. Just like I don’t take off my clothes in public. Courtesy to my fellow human beings.

He has 6 (or maybe 7 now) of his own kids and 2 step kids. Not exactly a Duggar. That’s pretty much in normal Catholic family range, at least when I was a kid.

I did the DNA stuff through this site. https://www.23andme.com/

We’ve had a long-standing myth in our family that we had a significant amount of native american ancestry in our history. Supposedly, my great grandmother on my father’s side was native american.