“We ‘ad to give birth in a box!”
“Oh, I would ‘ave dreamed of a box!”

Yeah... Stupendous Woman’s water broke at home, so we ended up at the hospital a little earlier than we would have otherwise, but still, it was another 31 hours before little Stupendous Girl decided to make her appearance. My wife went from “I want a natural birth,” to “ALL THE DRUGS!!!” pretty fast.

Yeah, this subject can be a minefield. My one child arrived pretty quickly after I got to the hospital, with little fuss, bother, or pain, which I was very grateful for. However, I found out very early on that when women are comparing giving birth stories, it’s like the ‘Four Yorkshiremen’ skit the Pythons do, with…

I find myself not caring about this Hari Kondabolu fellow all that much, so I guess that makes me considerably evil.

People of Italian and Irish descent easily assimilated into American society thanks to them being white Christians. By the mid 20th century discrimination of Irish and Italian Americans was nonexistent.

While not quite as rushed as that, my second child came into the world with the doctor saying, “Wait. Don’t push. Wait, wait... oh, never mind.”

The answer is, for the record, that the immigrant parents don’t have the same experience of growing up as cultural/racial minorities, and hence their formative years weren’t defined by racist stereotypes in the same way that the younger, American-born people’s were. Their stance towards that kind of thing is the same…

I can’t help but feel that a lot of this could have been avoided if the show had ended at least 10 years ago.

So we should only care about the feelings of famous people?

Exactly - Lovejoy’s the butt of that joke, not Apu. Just reinforcing that the Simpsons did in fact once understand how to skewer stereotyping.

He does own it...

The problem with Cletus is that he just elected a president.

Then get off your ass and make a “Problem with Cletus” documentary.

One of the (many) things I hate about this is how they utterly corrupted Lisa’s character to make her a mouthpiece for the writers who refuse to adapt and learn. As a character she’s always been outspoken, but she’s been upheld as the show’s moral center just as much as she’s been portrayed as a humorless scold (often…

I always assumed he did own it. Real-life immigrants to the country essentially buying themselves a job by opening a single-location shop of some sort is commonplace.

White trash is pretty broadly represented beyond Cletus. If half of Discovery Channel’s programming was filled with people of Indian descent, then we wouldn’t be talking about Apu.

Can’t wait to see how civil the comments are going to be...

Are they going to digitally cover all the women of Wakanda in burkas?

But they don’t come here for the people. They don’t really come here for the land. That’s something that really bothers me. They got off the plane, get in the rental car, drive around, consume, consume, consume, then they take off. And they don’t do anything to recognize the people who have lived here and who still…

I stopped reading at “At the same time that Santa Fe and Taos undergo a massive and perhaps irreversible gentrification process.” FFS, Taos is a goddamned ski resort and has been an artist colony since 1899. Georgia O’Keeffe moved to Santa Fe in 1984. Both these places were gentrified before this person was even born.…