Right. The point was to drive home how sexist and fucked up the studios were (and still are but back then was really a whole ‘nother bag). It did that. It reinforced how stacked the cards were against two older powerhouse women who knew their worth as actors. The attitude was “would you fuck those cunts?” It’s a…

Thank you for saying this. My sentiments exactly. They are telling a story about how certain individuals behaved 50+ years ago. I watched the episode, and it had the effect of making me feel some empathy for the two lead characters. Rather than promoting the idea that it’s okay to degrade co-workers (??), I could…

Fuck those cunts at the Parents Television Council.

I married a Brit, so am almost completely desensitized to cunt now.

His SNL work is totally what made me a fan. I have a hard time understanding the hate with him sometimes—he can sing, dance, play musical instruments, be a terrible actor in movies, and then be excellent at making fun of himself on SNL. He can be a little over-the-top (obnoxious?) at times, but I also think he’s well…

Don’t pretend that when Bye Bye Bye comes on, you don’t do the hand thing. It’s implanted in our generation’s DNA

I really, REALLY fucking hate this one song from him cause my sisters played it so bitch-slapping-Jesus much. However, I believe in separation of a person from their work. I hate his music but I think he’s a cool guy.

Yes, I can. Literally everything you just pointed out is due to a colonial legacy; Ireland’s ties to the Catholic Church are not because we are more naturally pre-disposed to piety than anywhere else but because of a particular kind of desperation that drove us (I’m assuming from that username that you’re Irish)…

Irish people (especially Catholics) were systematically oppressed by the English and have been the subjects of centuries of racism. I grew up in England in the ‘80s when Irish jokes were sold in books for children. It was nasty.

If you want to get another angle on the ‘rape’ of Ireland, take a look at the 11 years war. Cromwell managed to wipe out up to half the population and exported a large percentage of the remaining as slaves

Unfortunately, it’s true that the british regime would have helped perpetuate these things. And that’s not anti-british either, I have many great friends in Britain. But 800 years of occupation has long lasting effects.

Ireland wouldn’t have been part of the Europe at that time, except geographically. It was a very poor country and still affected by hundreds of years of brutal occupation.

Irish people suffered racial persecution for many years, much of which is very well documented, they were considered non human by other europeans and even americans.

Actually, Old Irish law was quite generous in protections for women and divorce (for a medieval system of law).

Yeah, I read this thinking of Britain as well. I don’t make light of the term “rape” when I say that colonialism is the rape of a society. It turns a people against itself and forces the same kinds of self-loathing and shame that rape may force on a person’s body. I’m not sure how a society ever recovers from that…

Americans often get caught up in the bucolic “fiddle dee dee” image of Irish life and picturesque scenery, and don’t realize how piss-poor a large percentage of the population really was until relatively recently. Those who ended up in homes like these had to subsist on the dregs on donations, which meant even more…

Not war, but colonialism. Honestly, as an Irishwoman, I hold the British responsible for most of this. In the decades post-independence (really until the 1990's ) most Irish people were living in poverty to one degree or another. There was no economy. And the Catholic Church, being an utterly evil institution, preyed…

No one gave their children to an order of sisters in the 1950's in Ireland. There was a thriving religious scene and public health service. The children in this home were the children of unwed mothers who were treated as less than the children of married parents, by the people charged with their care. There is nothing…

People are upset particularly because of the nature of the ‘burial’ - the bodies were found in part of an old septic system underground, likely a sewage treatment area. Some boys reported falling into the site in the 1970s and seeing a huge number of bodies. It’s not as though this is simply an unmarked graveyard.

They “buried” them in a sewer. And while infant/child mortality were high in Ireland at the time, they were much higher at this “home.”