This explains why so many television shows get worse as the seasons go by.

All three of Kate Middleton’s pregnancies were difficult - she had hyperemesis gravidarum with all three of them, and she had to cancel several engagements because of her pregnancy with Prince Louis. There were plenty of news reports about this, and it’s even in her Wikipedia article.

This isn’t just ignorance. This is a deliberate rewriting/whitewashing of American history. It’s the same thing they teach in history books in high school - sure, there were some people here, but they were wild savages and the Europeans came along and tamed them and civilized the land.

In fact, the British colonists/nascent Americans probably wouldn’t have won without the French’s aid.

I do college counseling and used to do SAT tutoring, which has had me crossing paths with some very wealthy (mostly white) families. When this question has been posed to them, they nearly always respond that they want to just let their children be children and not have them worrying about money “too early”. In my…

True. There are angles from which you don’t see the fit issues as much and I feel like if they had really nailed the fit, maybe the dress wouldn’t have seemed so underwhelming.

This was my first thought. When there’s an active shooter, you want there to be multiple ways the kids can get out of the building...not to mention another way for the police to get into the building. Otherwise the shooter has full control over who exits and enters.

I was also hoping for more frills - lace, beading, something. But even without that, I was still underwhelmed. I mean, her reception dress has none of that and still manages to be stunning and gorgeous, so I feel like you can make a really modern dress with none of the extra frills and still make it look…

OK, I thought I was the only one! All the news media are describing it as “stunning” and beautiful and perfect and I was very meh. It was very plain and underwhelming and it seemed like it was too big for her.

The plot was basically a rehash of the first movie with a little extra twist thrown in. But the jokes and characters surrounding the plot made it work.

My question is, though, why is it a bad thing that Hollywood has always chosen the black characters, or characters of color, to make LGBTQ? I mean, I agree with your overall premise that they do that to leave the white male straight lead characters untouched, but IMO that’s Hollywood’s overall problem with queerness, n…

I’m a black pansexual woman too and I feel the same way - I don’t know how to take the article. I’m also side-eyeing Lando’s sudden assignment to pansexuality, but that has more to do with how they did it. And although the author argues strenuously that this isn’t about thinking that gayness is an inherent threat on…

Yeah, the visuals are bad enough but I can’t take her VOICE.

Recent events on YouTube have shown that clicks alone aren’t what keeps you on. There have been several high-profile cases of YT ‘star’ who are still widely watched getting sponsorships pulled or their partnership status revoked because of what they put on their channels. Also, usually if I’m going to critique…

That’s Tomi Adeyemi. Autocorrect won’t let me be great.

Nalo Hopkinson! Nnedi Okorafor! If you haven’t read Who Fears Death? It’s amazing. And Children of Blood and Bone by Tomorrow Adeyemi is so good too.

I read Oscar Wao alone and haven’t discussed it with anyone, so I have been curious about people’s interpretation and opinion. But it never struck me that anyone could have interpreted Oscar or Yunior as anything other than toxic masculinity at its finest - just two angles of it. As a woman, I found Oscar’s obsession…

I think so too...but he’s also the one who tired them together by trying to use one as a shield for the other (or appearing to do so).

“...he took responsibility for [his] past,” adding that it was the reason he ‘made the decision to tell the truth of my rape and its damaging aftermath.’”

“I’m not going to question whether or not someone in an interracial relationship can capture the true nuance of black life and make it art because, guess what? They can. I’m just wondering why all these creatively genius black men end up with white women. Also, I am not mad, just curious.”