I’m so glad to here you’re doing well and sharing your experience for others to hear. Breaking barriers

I really appreciate learning this, thanks for sharing! If only they had consulted you for this cover! Or someone else with those experiences! Or literally… anyone!

Favorite movie of the year, maybe decade but I like weird movies. 

With all three of my kids, we went in with a list of 3-5 names we liked and then decided after meeting them. Our oldest basically chose his own- we tried out the names and when we got to the 4th one, he opened his eyes and looked at us and squawked. We took it as a sign. I have known people who went all in with names…

I think your way is quite common, too. I never had kids, but I remember being somewhat miffed at 7 when my mother went into the hospital with a Rachel or a David in her belly and came home with a Jessica.

Socialist! We are America! This is the best of all possible healthcare systems! The Free Market ™ solves all problems! High paid execs earn every penny because they are awesome geniuses! Move to Soviet Canada if you don’t like it!

I’m British - and associating rice with Indian culture and food - I had always presumed Uncle Ben was Indian, and it was an old Indian brand.

When I saw it on the shelves in an American store, something clicked, but asking around, it seems this was/is a pretty common belief in the UK.

Yeah, before I knew much about American brands, I had this idea Uncle Ben was a rice magnate and a pillar of the community, affectionately known as “Uncle” for his kindness and sense of responsibility for the younger generation. Of course that isn’t true. I did wondered if the logo was modelled on a real person, I…

During slavery (and lingering through Jim Crow), house slaves were often given the title of Aunt or Uncle. It fed into the (false) narrative that kindly slave masters treated their property like members of the family - the women who raised their children were kindly aunties, not unpaid labor; the man that slept in the…

I’m French and I had a similar experience but maybe for different reasons: Uncle Ben seemed innocent compared to local brands we had there. Since we have a huge history of colonialism that’s hard to escape even as a child and despite the government not being particularly interested in bringing it up, we had other…

Yeah, me too. I figured Aunt Jemima was like Colonel Sanders - there was a real person behind the mascot. Maybe she made it to Canada on the Underground Railroad, which would explain the maple syrup thing.

Isis was the best thing about Bring It On, and the evidence points to Gabrielle Union being just as awesome as her character.

It’s nice he was able to take some time off from his hymen patrol duties.

Man, Gwyneth and J.K. should have a can’t-shut-the-fuck-up off. Not sure which one is misjudging the moment more.

The one actor was from this really good Netflix show called The Get Down, which was prematurely cancelled because Baz Lurhman couldn’t control the budget. He went on to star in that live action Pikachu movie. The other actor is on Ava Duverney’s series Queen Sugar. Comes on OWN.

I get them too. In fact I thought this problem was exactly that at first. But then it didn’t seem to be anymore with the screaming body pain.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Author

Yes, it was very good. And, for that matter, so was Ender’s Game.

I think it’s ironic actually, that a foreigner would know more about the US than an American. At least that’s been MY experience, as well as other foreign born friends.

I am really struggling with what is going on with these Jezebel writers lately. They are just shitting on people for ridiculous reasons, blatantly missing the point, and from the comments it’s more than obvious that they are entirely out of touch with their audience. The fact that they’ve *more than once* mocked…