I think it is more valid than what usually gets the “cue the predictable...” treatment.

Wow, I am amazed that a high school AP US History class would take the time for such enriching material. (Yes, I understand you skipped ahead and read unassigned material). It seems that AP History classes teach to the test and don’t stop and smell the roses. I am a high school English teacher, and I do understand why…

Yeah, maybe it wasn’t twice a month. And maybe the OP is exaggerating in other areas as well. I must say, I am surprised at how many people are truly eating this story up.

Yeah, I wonder, if Beast “fails” the curse, do the other people in the castle revert back to human form anyway? Or do they remain utensils forever? If the latter, it would explain why they were so, uh, motivated to get the Beast hitched.

Yeah, if Vladdy made me that deal, I could probably just make a very public proposal to Ivanka Trump. She would say, “Um..., that’s weird, but I’m actually already married.” I could say, “So? Divorce him, and marry me. If you don’t, we are all going to die. Do you want us all to die?”

Yeah, Watson is an actress trying to promote a movie. People don’t really criticize the films they recently made. Except for Katherine Heigl in “Knocked Up.” You can praise her as a feminist, but... if that’s the way she felt, she could have refused to do the movie.

Yeah, the Disney Beast isn’t really that ugly.

It is hard to imagine that. I was thinking recently about Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid. Both tales about about compromised people who have to win the love of another person. The Beast is a hideous man, and Ariel is beautiful, but cannot speak. It is hard to envision a movie where a hideous rich woman…

A lot of good points. But, I can’t argue with Beast for not telling Belle about the curse. Wouldn’t that pretty much “ruin” it? If he has to win the love of a woman, he can’t tell women about it. Then her “decision making” would be too compromised. For example, imagine Vladimir Putin told me I have to get married…

Yeah, I believe you. But Chris Harper-Mercer, the Southern Oregon mass shooter from 2015 was mixed race and was an uber-sexually frustrated man. Yes, his black ancestry is not immediately apparent. I wonder if he saw the, um, “phenomenom” we are discussing here, realized he wasn’t getting a piece of that action, and…

So, I guess this posse got a motel room(s) for these excursions? Also, I wonder what their explanation was for why they are in town? They probably didn’t outright tell the truth about why they went there. Maybe they didn’t need to explain themselves. I imagine they were recognized if they went twice a month. I would…

The LAPD has historically and is still currently severely understaffed. That is why the department is constantly in hot water over police ignoring procedure. If you don’t have enough officers, you cut corners to get the job done. They usually get away with it, but when they don’t, it makes big news, like this case and…

It is possible he realized he would not have been confirmed.

Monogamy: I think it is hard to be monogamous if you have a lot of other options, or if you are the “better half” in a lopsided relationship. For example, I am a man born the same year as ScarJo. If I were married to her, I would probably find monogamy easy as pie. She, honestly, would probably find it harder to…

Yeah, I can see that. But I think that pop music gives people an opportunity to express unspeakable thoughts. I say unspeakable because few people would have patience to listen to these thoughts expressed outside of music. If a man says, “I was spying on my crush through the window with binoculars while she was…

While it is not Trump’s place to be commenting on autism, I am a high school teacher and I really think that autism is being overdiagnosed. You can find several articles on google on this topic. It does really seem to me that many parents of rather dim children are pushing for their children to be diagnosed with some…

I still think standing is the way to go.

Yeah, I admitted to seeing your point. However, as a man I am not thrilled by this concept. It seems as if the majority of female sung song nowadays are about women hating a specific man or about declaring how much she does not need a man. Yeah, that’s probably the way to sell records nowadays, but it does bum me out.…

Yeah, I see your point. The list’s theme is about women who kill their dirtbag lovers. Janie’s Got a Gun is about a daughter who kills her sexually abusive father. Yeah, got it.

Yeah, that was my first thought. But the song is performed by men, which might have disqualified it from this list.