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LMAO! The rippin' and the tearin'!

I don't see why you would expect that, is everyone supposed to forget that Alabama has a racist history and still has racists because you came on the scene? I don't expect that people are going to stop making shows about old Hollywood because I moved to LA I don't understand people having to avoid reality because it makes others uncomfortable. The reason that Alabama isn't the exact same as it was 50 years ago, wasn't because of Alabama, but was because of federal law and court decisions. Its not like everyone in Alabama just had a change of heart and decided to end segregation. And so, is there much evidence to suggest that the mindset has undergone a great change in regards to race relations? I don't particularly think so. I don't think YOU'RE a racist, but I think trying to characterize Alabama as being "just like any other state" in terms of race is not accurate. But, the state of Alabama is no reflection on you as a person.

UnReal didn't show any of that. But Alabama has come by their reputation fairly. It is not just Alabama that continues to harbor that reputation, there are other states in the south that have the same reputation. The only difference is that those states may have also done something else of national note that makes the media discuss those things as well.

No, segregated proms still happen in the south. And they happened on a wider scale as late as the 1990's, not 50 years ago. In Alabama there is evidence to suggest that segregated proms still occur even when people objected in 2010. Alabama may not be the only state to have a history steeped in racism, but it is a state that has a history steeped in racism. I don't think Hollywood, or anyone else is unfair to Alabama. No tea, no shade but perhaps Alabama should work on doing something else that is worthy of national attention. But complaining about a reputation caused by the actions of its own citizens isn't at all fair or reasonable, IMO. But, I will say that Alabama did gain some national attention when it allowed for posthumous pardon of the Scottsboro boys in 2013.....for a crime they were wrongly convicted of in the 1930. Seems odd that it would take so long to pardon a group of black men wrongly convicted and imprisoned for raping a white woman.

This doesn't always happen with the southern states either. Most of the times now when people are talking about Georgia (part of the south) they are talking about a trashy reality show, many times when people are talking about North Carolina -- its about their sports teams. Most of the times, grainy 50's video doesn't even get shown.

Actually, it is different than a lot of other states. Other states don't have segregated proms. Other states don't really have the same history of slavery and the economic dependence on slavery that made them treat human beings like filth and property. Other states don't have the same history of having to objectify an entire race of people in order to look yourself in the mirror and not want to shoot yourself in the face for enslaving another person. The South traditionally was more reliant on slave labor because of the nature of the agricultural industry. Therefore, they had more slaves and had to justify slavery to themselves on a daily basis and putting profit before humanity. Which is much easier to do, when you tell yourself that the person you're enslaving either isn't human or isn't fully human....or is different than you. This is the ideology which can and sometimes HAS been passed down through generations. As for the alleged police brutality cases, I would suspect that in the Southern states, blacks know better than to even complain. However, I will say that the number of black inmates vs. white inmates on death row in Southern States is startling and very real data.

Its not a proud moment for the state, but that doesn't mean that it didn't happen. And that doesn't mean that there aren't people alive today who believed in that ideology and raised their children to believe in it, and those children have raised their own children in the same belief system. I also don't think 50 years is a such a long time as to think that there aren't still quite a few racist holdouts. I'm guessing 50 years is a long time for those who don't want to be associated with that era, but for the people still suffering from the effects of institutionalized racism 50 years isn't SO LONG AGO as to make that history irrelevant. There are parts of the south that are still quite segregated. In fact.....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segregated_prom which, pretty much only happens in the south. A lot of Southerners may have changed their point of view, but there is no reason to believe that the south is all sunshine and rainbow coalitions now.

I know.....the tide is just now starting to shift. As much as I hate Kerry Washington as an actress, I can acknowledge that its nice to have a show on the air with a powerful black woman with powerful white men fighting over her.

I actually sort of think this is what they both want to do, but they can't see themselves as being disloyal and getting rid of Bronte But "at the end of the day," I think Bridgette really wants to hitch her wagon to Frank hardcore and not have to listen to anyone else but him. And I think Natalie probably doesn't want to have Frank tied around her neck via Bridgette. But as long as all three are together, I think they are going to have to stay in their alliance, or at least thats the way they feel.

Oh, then I'm thinking of a different Sketcher slip on shoe that I've seen. The ones I've seen from Sketchers aren't flip flops, but they are backless shoes that you slip your feet into. I HAVE however seen people at the gym in flip flops and I'm scared for them.

No, legally a battery is a harmful or offensive touching. I didn't make that up, the court system did. So yeah, what Frank did, was a battery. legally. And no, you do not need to verbalize your complaints in the case of a battery. The same way if you slap someone in the face they don't need to say "ow, can you stop slapping me in the face" for it to be called a battery. I'm not sure where you got that idea from, but you're mistaken. If a reasonable person would find the touching offensive, it is a battery. Most reasonable women would find a person they don't really know slapping their ass as offensive. You can be asked on the witness stand any number of things. The jury will only be asked to judge a battery by the standard of whether the touching was offensive by the standard of a reasonable person. In fact, legally, saying that you didn't actually hurt someone is not a defense to battery.

Thats bullshit. If you want to say you have "scary shit" on someone on national TV, you need to say what the "scary shit" is. Its not like you're so worried about her reputation, so either say it, or shut up about having "scary shit" on her. Unless you're worried about a defamation suit or being called out as a big fat liar....or you have nothing at all and just like to talk shit.

I don't know, unless they are getting rid of teams I think Paul may be Day's best chance to be HOH. I think they should get rid of Bronte, Natalie should be absorbed into another alliance (something with James) and Bridgette can continue to kiss Frank's ass I think its much better for Natalie's game to be aligned with James than to be aligned with Bridgette I wouldn't mind Tiffany staying in the game, but the Frank blindside will be so sweet! And I want that to happen more.

That is exactly the message from Whitney. In fact, I would go as far as to so that her message is "I don't care who you judge, as long as you don't judge me, because I have an excuse!" It is what I find most hypocritical about her "No BS" campaign If you're never supposed to body shame someone, than we don't need constant reminders that PCOS is making you fat. Because WHY you're fat shouldn't matter, you just shouldn't be judged for being fat no matter why you're fat. I don't understand why that doesn't annoy more of her fans.

and I think thats an interesting, and super important point. The bigger you get, the more important the workout shoe because you're already putting more weight on your joints Wearing slip on shoes, backless during a workout is an accident waiting to happen, especially if you're doing cardio. I see it at the gym and I am scared for people who are trying to workout in flip flops and what not (I've seen it!) because I feel like the shoe is going to slip off and they are going to get tripped up. Just as important.....you need to have support and cushioning, and you probably need to purchase workout shoes more often than others. If the shoes aren't sturdy its hard to get either of those things. I have to believe that if we put a man on the moon, someone has surely created a workout shoe for people with really, really big feet.

While she may say one thing on the show...she was very clear to point out to the TV viewing audience that the scooter was NOT because she was fat, but because of her messed up back. I bet you somewhere in that TH was a line about how thin people tweak their back all the time, so ipso facto.....her being in a scooter was not due at all to her weight, but rather to just some freak occurrence that could happen to a skinny person and has nothing to do with her weight. Which is partially true, people of all sizes have back pain and put out their back.

I don't think I did this -- I try to avoid the word for actual mental illness. If I did, I apologize.

But was it all that different? Rachel does go through bouts of being "fine" and then, when faced with a stressful situation she freaks out. Mary was for real on medication so her symptoms may have been less obvious through most of the filming. But she had a stressful situation and she freaked out as well. And sort of in the same way as Rachel. There was a manic type high, followed by the crash that is to come. At least thats how I saw it. But again, I don't even think the show is really wanting the viewer to know anything more than that Rachel has a mental condition that is causing her to have these manic highs and crashing lows. And that condition is triggered by stress. I think its something more than that Rachel is fine and people just expect her to act out and therefore she does.

that....is hilarious :)

I don't know, I would imagine that Rachel has gotten somewhat of a reputation in her industry. She was "plucked" from nowhere, and has publicly acted out. I might not want to put her in charge of things because if stuff went sideways who knows what she would be doing. And I'm a little over Rachel, for all her talk of feminism, she tends to constantly lean too heavily on men in the workplace. The very idea that she would even get involved with Coleman after the disaster of Adam/Jeremy is just.....not great to me. As much as she will pick on the contestants and talk down to them, I don't particularly think she is any better than any of them. And the fact that she seems to be under that impression, makes her even less likeable. How long is it between filmings? A year or so? She had this giant blowup with Jeremy/Adam...both men she was dating in the workplace. The year before she drove off in a car due to stress of the show and that video of her talking about Jeremy (a man she was dating in the workplace) made the rounds. How can she not get the message that its time to stop shitting where she eats. Or maybe she just needs to stop eating for a while, because she can't eat in a healthy manner right now. I would also have babies with John Booth... EXACTLY!!!! I also would have liked to know more about Jameson, why did a Philly cop choose to be on this show? How has she made it to the final 4 when I haven't seen Darius so much as hand her a cracker? Yeah, but you know Rachel was hoping that the boyfriend was going to say the "n" word. I wonder if that was a discussion in the writers room. Rachel seem genuinely upset that there wasn't an obvious racist around and I thought that either the boyfriend was going to say something racist, or that the stress of the situation would somehow cause someone in the family to go off-script and say something racist (not something as obvious as the "n" word, but something that could be used)

white woman that nearly accused you of being her baby daddy > BLM for Darius I guess? ETA: We don't know if Darius actually donated some money secretly to BLM, and it was still really nice of him to put aside money for BethAnn. Goodness only knows she is going to be in a BAD situation when she gets home. I think that Rachel's assumption of there being a racist southern family was based on the fact that: a) there are likely still a lot of racist holdovers in the South. I'm not saying EVERYONE in the South is a racist, but given the long and storied history of racism in the South there may be more racists per square inch than in other places, and b) that Beth Anne saw fit to have/wear a confederate flag bikini and defend the confederate flag (which, frankly, I've had just about enough of, there are other symbols you can use to evidence your distaste for government that aren't steeped in slavery) and c) that Beth Anne doesn't even really seem to see Darius as a person at all but as "Quarterback" would all be clues that she might come from a family that is racist. If your family may not accept a black man, but will accept you dating "quarterback," it may be because they have issues with black men. And words cannot describe how shitty it was for her to give her father the impression that Darius might be the father as he was holding a shotgun. To me, that was a subtle callback to the days when a white woman would sleep with a black men and then claim to be raped and the man ended up getting lynched. If I were Darius, I wouldn't have even wanted her to sit next to me on the plane, because who knows what other shit she would find to blame on him. ETA: for some reason I didn't watch parts of the first episode, but I would have also assumed that they would have screened BethAnne for "racist southerner" if that was the narrative they wanted to go with when building their "cast"

Amnesia! Secret Twins! The suitor's long lost half sister is a contestant!

But, I think this is how writers will signal "bi-polar disorder" to a TV viewing audience that may be unfamiliar with the actual signs and symptoms. Or just some variety of mental illness that needs to be treated. And I just think that more people are familiar with the diagnosis of bi-polar. However, in terms of what is actually wrong with Rachel -- it sounds like you have way more of a grasp of it than would the general viewing audience...and myself, of course.

I thought they used to be called pasties. And I thought exotic dancers used them in towns where nude dancing is not allowed. But they may also be something you use if you have a case of headlights (in high school, one of my nicknames was "One Headlight" after that song)

For me, its the fact that....at her size Whitney must be in physical pain. I'm in the middle of losing about 20 pounds I gained while studying for the bar. When I first started to run again, I noticed just how much more painful it was. It wasn't that I couldn't run, but so many things hurt. My calves were ON FIRE all the time, my hamstrings would hurt, my lower back would be sore, my gluts hurt more than normal (I have priformis on my left side, so there is always some pain). Everything just...hurt. As I've started to lose the weight (knock on wood)....I've noticed that things are hurting a lot less when I run. I know that when you run you put a certain amount of weight on your body due to the force of the impact. But at Whitney's size, just walking and moving around must put a lot of impact on her body. And she must be in pain a lot of the time. I remember watching My 600 Pound Life, and almost everyone would just say that they were in pain from walking or moving. And thats not fabulous. Thats not a great quality of life in your early 30's. Yes, there are the heart issues, the pre-diabetes issues. But I guess if you're in denial, you can just sort of forget about those things....but you can't forget about being in pain all the time. I think that the scooter is just so sad, yes, she wretched her back.....but I bet there was a part of her that was relieved to have the scooter in the parade because it probably would have hurt to have to walk and dance the entire thing. Of course Whitney was able to manage to "dance" with a messed up back because she has a pathological need for attention -- so it was probably worth the pain.