I just wanted to add to your comment with a pic expanding on your explanation of doss houses for ppl. I wish could find a picture from a better source than pinterest, but this does resemble the pics I’ve seen of doss houses in documentaries and etc. The people below are literally paying to sleep across a rope for the…

I have some thoughts on this that relate to the neo-liberal idea of boycotting companies into approved practices.

I waaaaanted to like the book so bad. I could clearly see how much research had gone into it, and loved the idea of the main plot, but the whole romantic vampire thing has just been so done. And as I recall from the book its mostly the main character going, Ooooooh he’s so sophisticated and wears scarves and has old…

I’ve heard that response to the question posed before (used it myself!), and while I think its important to recognize the problem with the Catholic Church, it strikes me now as little different from the argument for Sororities. Which is to say, the good works of the few don’t make up for the corrupt system itself. 

I went to school briefly in a town in Mississippi which had one of these Segregation Academies, founded in the mid 60s. Student body was all white, or practically so, to my knowledge. Called (I kid you not) Heritage Academy.

They place the burden of sexual purity on the women and expect no less from the men as they believe it’s their ‘nature’. 

See if had just sacrificed her unto the sea upon her crowning , delivering her into the jaws of the deep to ensure the next catch, we wouldn’t have this problem. A real erosion of our traditions. smh. 

Isn’t Beatrice famous for giggling like an ignorant five year old during Bishop Michael Curry’s sermon at the royal wedding? Yeah seems like she can’t even do the part-time Princess thing right.

It has never been confirmed that Caster Semenya is intersex. All we know is that she has higher levels of testosterone than normal, which can be a result of a range of conditions or none at all. Men and women have a high variability of hormone levels. Some male Olympic Gold athletes have low levels of testosterone.…

Correct. Crack is cocaine cooked and usually cut with a bunch of stuff. Freebasing is just smoking powdered cocaine.

There is a fascinating episode that goes into this issue in depth on the Netflix docu-series Rotten:  https://www.netflix.com/title/80146284

I think what’s a Star-Lord is talking about is this idea, and I’ve heard of it before, of how other countries interpreted or reacted to the French Revolution. While the FR itself was classist in its nature, there was this sudden reaction from people, classical liberals who supported free-thinking democracies, of oh,…

Its from a dress fitting scene. The brown stuff is the muslin dress lining; in a full-blown custom dress fitting they make a muslin pattern to fit first before they cut up the expensive fabric. You may pin the fabric during the fitting to get an idea of color and draping and etc. That’s what’s going on here.

My mother’s own extreme way of getting equanimity is to say, “In a hundred years, we’ll all be dead.” It’s a zero to sixty kinda intense thing to say as a mantra. But it works. The morbid just puts things into perspective I guess.

Real talk from my real life.

Babygirl has def. got her lips filled a wee touch and a bit of tightening, but honestly I think the biggest thing is she’s started doing her makeup completely differently. I had read somewhere that she thought Gavin Rossdale wanted her to always look a particular way, the Gwen Stephanie we are most familiar with.…

Oh I see. Hmm I wonder whether exploring getting rid of the conservatorship is then related to the larger argument over child support the two have been having as late.

right, ok, but i’m sure the conservatorship was a contingency of visitation rights. Which makes me wonder now if getting rid of the conservatorship relates more largely to the claims he is making for more child support...

I’ve wondered too but I think its an order of magnitude thing. Having the access, visibility, and resources that Britney has means her bumps in the road have the potential to be bigger in effect. I also think that as the mother of young children, a conservatorship might guarantee that she continued to have custody of…

Yes. But good primary source material helps to build those entries that anyone could write (and also keep if from being taken down if you have no good source material to prove your entry is a prominent figure. smh). You bring up a good point though. If there were more women editors, there would maybe be more women…