I love this article, and by extension, also love your family.

Breaking into homes, fleecing the populace.

When I was bingeing sci-fi movies, I got super excited about Advantageous on Netflix. It occurred to me that I've not seen an American film with an Asian woman in the lead where the film wasn't required to revolve around Asian-ness.

I wonder how (or if) that could work; if they were collectively owed 40k, that seems like a lot to miss out on in NYC, on a food service wage.

I apprenticed with some farmers who were selling to them, so when we delivered, a chef- or manager or someone- sat us down to give us an idea of what they were doing with our produce. And it was well crafted, edible bliss. It really made me appreciate the vast potential of what I was helping to grow.

What about hobo spiders? Don't you have those? When I lived in the PNW, I'd lose my shit completely whenever I saw a large, nondescript spider. Or any spider actually. Ugh.

So, I’m late 20's and my only associations with HGB come from an SNL sketch, with Ana Gasteyer playing HGB. I didn’t understand the reference as a young person, but I’ve become fascinated by the “bad feminist” idea that always pops up when women don’t do or ally themselves with ‘the party line’ of the time. It’s…

TBH, I feel you; on the one (very large, overdeveloped) hand, this upsets me in a really visceral way. Like, WHY are her own words not heard, and taught with the gravity that they deserve? How far has our collective ability to empathize with an Other gone that this is necessary, or even remotely useful?

It’s not looking for a payday. These families are distraught. Have you ever raised a small thing, a pet or an injured animal that you’ve found, only to see it die? To do everything you can do, and have a life dependent upon your care and have it die? It is terrible. And let’s multiply that grief exponentially with the…

Thanks for this article; it’s great. I've always found working on cars to be massively intimidating, especially since I depend on it for everything. This is a great place to start.

As far as gender goes, there’s some evidence to suggest that men feel threatened/disinterested when women have above 30% screen time. As far as ethnicity (outside of stuff mass marketed to individual ethnicities), I dunno if that’s a thing?

This fuckin guy. I’m super pissed that my adopted home has become a shadow of its former self. I was afraid, and a bit ignorant about moving to “The South” proper, come to find out that NC has been remarkably progressive as a state throughout its history. It’s only within the last 7 years or so that a kind of purge…