I’m glad they’re putting out a black doll with a lighter backstory, really. Addy was compelling, but her story was incredibly dark, comparatively. Molly had to deal with her brother ruining her Halloween costume. I seem to remember Samantha having some kind of a problem with ice cream. Addy fled slavery and got hunted…

Glad someone else was also traumatized by that. As I remember, the Addy books were incredibly well written. But it has been awhile.

I never had an AG doll as a kid, but I had a lot of the books. The scene in which Addy is forced to eat a handful of tobacco bugs by an overseer because she is working too slowly or something gave me nightmares for months.

One of the very first vibrators was invented by a French doctor in the late 19th century -can’t remember exactly when and don’t want to google the subject at work. It was water-powered and called “The Manipulator”. Seriously.

right, but like... If there's a constant, present danger of seeing super-intense, HD shots of insects and amphibians doing the nasty, it's just not worth it to me. I can't relax and enjoy the bits about forests.

Man, I don't get this trope. I had a college bf put some planet earth on one night when we were both quite stoned and it was like... 40 mins of upclose frog sex. It was the last thing I wanted to see while high. Bring on the adult swim, at the very least.

Dude. Quit with all the “facts” and shit. Also, women only count if they are white. The impact on the Texan Hispanic population, which has historically had a more difficult time accessing birth control, is irrelevant. They aren't real Americans, or something.

Year of my birth! Looking at it n0w, I wish that year had been represented by Beauty and the Beast rather than the ultra-creepy Silence of the Lambs.

I like "the Cosby Slow" but it sounds like a Prohibition-era cocktail.

My childhood BFF who is now getting her phd in electrical engineering was such an incredibly slow, pokey child that my mom would fiddle with the carpool schedule so she didn't have to pick her up in the mornings. Brilliant woman, some people just have no time sense.

In many ways, being Catholic is a bit like being Jewish. You might not believe a word of the doctrine, but you're still Catholic. It's a cultural thing. I can't think of a better way to phrase this, but there must be one.

liberal arts degree ftw!

It's a bit lengthy, but I'll contact cafepress and see what they can do :)

Ohmigod, I should. How did this never occur to me?

Yeah, gentrification is a tricky question, especially because of lower-income residents getting priced out of inner-city neighborhoods where their jobs/lives/families have always been. But this guy isn’t even talking about gentrification. His entire thesis is literally: I can afford to live a decent life with an…

The idea that successfully holding down a job and making rent entitles you to complete freedom from perceiving the unhappiness of others is so breathtakingly narcissistic.

I’m pretty sure that the vows of his office preclude the pope from taking part in any wormtonguing. :/

Honey, God never gives you more than you can handle, and each precious child with an underdeveloped brain is a gift from Him. He is giving these parents the glorious opportunity to struggle to support a child with severe cranial damage. He personally blessed those mosquitoes and sent them out to bite poor pregnant…

Rubber is God's kryptonite.

Nope. The logical hoops to be jumped through to rationalize that are insane.