Atheist with a religious family, including an older sister who has a masters of divinity here. Religion doesn’t get a pass from the relentless judging of everything and everyone that I do. In most cases it’s just an easier target. Especially my Mormon cousins.

My husband and I are both atheists (though he is of the school of Who Gives A Shit and I am a proponent of Thinking I’m Smarter Than You) while his family is Catholic and mine Methodist. No one gives us any shit except my younger sister who is just baffled that we don’t celebrate Christmas with our 5 year old son. She…

Yes, I absolutely see the problem in that. The lack of representation of WOC means that every instance of representation holds more weight. White women are allowed to be seen in many different lights, as complete characters, or as stand-ins for very simple and one-sided male desires (or rejections). WOC are not fairly…

Agreed on many points. What your words brought to mind for me are the numerous occasions where the rom-com has an all white cast (like every single rom-com ever, ugh) and so the undesirable women are rejected for traits that are seen as typically female, like baby-craziness or jealousy. There are rare instances of the…

Definitely difficult to disentangle them. It absolutely could be a trope and racism at the same time. It could also be a fairly accurate representation of a woman that Kumail encountered in this real-life situation (or an amalgamation of several real people). Yes, we can always do better, but one movie can’t be all…

I feel like any woman who is not “the ONE” that our protagonist is supposed to end up with (destiny, duh) is presented as a caricature. If we can connect and relate to the ancillary characters that we know are not the true love interest of the story it muddies up the “pure” love we just know the protagonist has for…

This is definitely one aspect, assholes are everywhere, but there are a significant number of Americans who believe they have Cherokee heritage because their family members are on the Dawes Rolls. This register of Cherokee people also included freed slaves that were previously held by Cherokees, white people who had…

Portland for me, too! The only festival I’m going to this year is the Blues Festival this weekend! Plus at least three beer festivals and the Rose Festival.

Agreed on the major urban areas festivals. I spent most of my life in LA, but now live in Oregon. I went to Coachella multiple times and always stayed in Palm Springs in a hotel and drove 40 minutes to the festival at my leisure. I will probably never go to Sasquatch. I love to camp, but not when I’m trying to look…

As an old who goes to festivals for both the joy of music and the copious drugs, I believe the festival planners have zero responsibility for my drug use and it’s ramifications. They do, however, need to have trained staff on hand to deal with the multitude of injuries that can occur, and it’s hard to be certified in…

Hey, he did not “casually” shoot Hunter S. Thompson’s ashes. He fulfilled a good friend and amazing artists final wishes that no one else was willing to.

Is this dubbed or in Portuguese with subtitles?

I am a married woman, and also a bitch. My husband doesn’t like to socialize as much as I do, so I quite frequently go to concerts/bars/events/comedy shows by myself. I enjoy it. I refuse to turn down a dude’s advances by telling them I am married. I tell them I’m not interested, but thank you, if they are being…

I grew up on Silva between Orange and Atlantic, but after gallavanting around the country returned to 53rd and Rose, between Orange and Cherry! Small world!

Samesies. North Long Beach, what about you?

I am 5'9" and always dated tall. Most recent ex was 6'5" but I married a dude who is 5'8"

I also follow this account, live in a far out neighborhood (Numbers, what’s up!), and own my home. Are we the same person? I feel like I see more masturbaters than machete-wielders on that Twitter.

Agreed. I had uniforms for several years and while at the time I was VERY upset about anyone stifling my creativity through clothing, it was a great equalizer. I was bused to a richer part of town for school, and one year in uniforms were implemented. It eliminated the classicism that can come with clothing, in…

I also enjoy the show, but definitely in spite of him, not because of it. The mixture of panelists put together, and the discussions they have, are what keeps me coming back. The phrase “working in the fields” lends itself to a slavery joke, but Maher didn’t have a good one on deck so he told a shitty weak one.

Back in 2007/2008 I used to smoke spliffs. One fabulous trip to Vegas I emptied my cigarettes, mixed the tobacco with weed, flew from LAX to Vegas, and smoked right on the casino floor. You could definitely smell it, but everyone was smoking and I am a very generic looking mid-thirties white woman smoking a cigarette…