I was wondering what the “we don’t own you like Zora” reference was that Angela made. I thought of Zora Neale Hurston at first and then it confused me even more.

Let us hope it only went that far.

I’m a former vegan. I was more staunch than Little Edie could ever know and lived the lifestyle for years while raising two cats and a dog. Never did I ever consider making my pets vegan too. If a person chooses to be vegan, then they should raise naturally vegan pets(like rabbits) if it bothers them that animals eat…

As I said, “How forgiving can we be in the SHORT TERM...”. I hope he corrects his behavior, sees the error of his actions(not the error of getting caught), learns from his mistakes, and becomes better man. At this time, he hasn’t had “room to grow”, he was caught and he’s doing some damage control. Time will tell the…

They are fetish shoes. Underground fetish magazines and shoemakers have featured these types since the post WWII. Ivy Rorschach(the guitarist and lifeblood of the punk band The Cramps), brought them into a “sort of” mainstream, but Louboutin(according to a documentary I watched) is taking credit for it.

He didn’t rape anyone, but I doubt you would be so flippant about a man behaving that way around a woman in your life that you love. He didn’t rape anyone, but he wielded power over his victims. He didn’t rape anyone, but he did some deplorable shit.

“So it’s basically an adaptation of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Craneswith an unnecessary meta inclusion of the author?”

Rural white Kentuckian here, I grew up thinking that the confederate flag was a symbol of people who are ignorant, low class, and perhaps inbred.

Amen! A lot of the non-grey posters at The Root have started posting screen captures of troll posts in lieu of bringing them out of the greys by directly replying. I wonder why it never has caught on here?

1. There Will Be Blood

I’m glad you didn’t.

I’m giving you a star for mentioning “Purgatory”.

She was the Beyoncé of her time and I’m guessing that Beyoncé will have a long, successful career too. She has stayed relevant into her mid-30's in a young woman’s game and handled scandals quite well, just like Diana Ross.

Excellent points all around. I may be going out on a limb here, but I think that the people who have emerged as liberals from conservative environments have a ton of perspective because they have seen firsthand how terrible that kind of thought can be. My rural, liberal peers are unwavering. Their ideas have been…

Actually, quite a few. You would be surprised how many people actually don’t listen to their parents. My point is that you’re throwing the baby out with the bath water and your thinking isn’t much different than those people who think all or most Muslims are backwards ISIS sympathizers who shouldn’t be allowed into…

Kick rocks. I still live in the red state in the tiny town where I was raised by two conservative Trump-smootchers. I came up in the awful rural school mill and I’ve mostly had a life of menial jobs and the kind of poverty that has bracketed between “I can’t afford to eat today” to “I would be screwed if I ever had a…

My mother was the same way. Tirades. She would also add and remind me that power-hungry Diana screwed over the other women in The Supremes. Mother also told me that Prince and The Rolling Stones were Satanists. Much to her dismay, I became a fan of all three.

I came here to say this. Instead I will leave you a star.

I went two years ago. When I was there, it was Coors. Things may have changed more recently though.

That is odd that they didn’t offer Guinness. Perhaps it is a an issue of pride that the perfect Guinness is poured directly into a pint glass from a tap.