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I have never believed that Margaret Mitchell believed in all of the Lost Cause propoganda. In fact, she continues to have Scarlett poke fun at it all the time. Scarlett wants absolutely nothing to do with the Old Guard in Atlanta after the war. She constantly mocks them for their chosen path of genteel poverty and later their obsession with building monuments to the confederate dead. It's the movie that pushes the Lost Cause romanticism, not the book. It also doesn't help that Margaret Mitchell died before she could see how people misinterpreted her book. I do think she believed in the Happy Darky myth.

I have a lot of respect for La Nora, but no fiction series based on one couple needs 30 titles let alone the 50 plus the In Death series is up to now.

Blanca's career trajectory made sense. She finally loves herself enough to go back to school in a field where she can use her natural talents to succeed. I will give props to the show having her reach her goal of becoming a nurse in increments. Lulu kept on getting the short end of the writing stick. Her season 3 arc felt like the writers were scrambling for her to have something to do. I guess they pulled accounting out of their idea hat and ran with it.

Count me as another who had issues with the writing of this episode. It just did not completely gel together and felt forced in places. I was also confused by the timeline. I assume this episode took place after Angel and Papi's wedding so it would be set in 1995. So I was shocked to see that Pray died in 1996. It did not feel like a year or more passed from the opening to his death, leaving out Pray's miraculous recovery and sudden decline. I still don't see how no one noticed that Pray stopped taking the drugs. The 1998 scenes made zero sense as well. The scene between Blanca and Judy in the new OB ward rang false. They went from close coworkers who supported each other in the AIDS ward to people who haven't spoken to each other in years. I don't buy that the hospital was able to close down the AIDS ward and renovate it into the new birthing unit in less than a year, nor that Blanca and Judy stopped speaking to each other in the same timeframe. Yes, Blanca would have been busy getting her nursing degree and that would take her into different hospitals on rotation. And then you get the whole Sex and the City references which would not have happened in 1998. Only the first season of the show would have aired in 98 and that season was far from the glamourous girlfriends meeting up for Cosmos phase of later seasons. Why not push out those scenes to 2001?

And apparently, you can brag about your mob connections to just about anyone and never face any consequences. You would think that the mobsters would frown upon Elecktra telling Hot Chocolate and random waiters she works for the mob.

That sounds about right. Religious art is too Catholic for them, so no print of The Last Supper in their dining area. I wonder if Gothard would allow a painting like Jean-Francois Millet's The Angelus. its religious without being overtly Catholic.

I've listened to Gaslighter a few times, and Adrian fucked up. Him provoking her made her go harder on him than what she might have if he just would have settled. I know some details were changed in lyrics and she most likely downplayed his behavior. Going by one of the songs, he made her invite his side piece and the side piece's husband backstage to her concert. Isn't it basic etiquette to never introduce your wife to your side piece?

No one has apologized to The Chicks, but their careers were not as affected as Sinead's. The Chicks never really were cancelled to the extent of Sinead. The podcast You're Wrong About did an episode on The Chicks that talked about them being "cancelled." They lost gigs and some radio stations stopped playing their music, but this happened when streaming became a thing. They still had outlets for their music that Sinead did not. They may have only released 2 full albums since that concert in London, but part of that is their life getting into the way. The women married, had kids, got divorced, got remarried, etc., and Natalie Maines's messy divorce caused the band some issues. Her husband tried to get the courts to stop her from writing songs about his cheating instead of, you know, not cheating on his songwriter wife.

That is a very thoughtful statement. I applaud her for processing everything quietly and waiting to release a statement. So often celebrities tweet out an apology while they are still in the process and it's a mess. Better to fully absorb it and cycle through it. And the comment from the VP organization is totes cringe.

I have used a box from work to bring home my things before. Now, I have always worked in places where boxes are convenient, not in some corporate office. I packed my things in a box when I was promoted to branch manager. Now, my box has never had a plant in it or "my" coffee mug.

I have lived in the South long enough to have met a few Melanies in my day. A saintly woman who exudes love, kindness and understanding for her kind, but balks at her precious son interacting with a black child, welcome to the South. She would also balk at Beau spending time with the offspring of poor whites. Her Christian charity has well-defined limits. The black and poor whites who came to her door asking for assistance would not be allowed onto the porch. They would be handed food, clothes, money etc and sent on their way. And the rest of Atlanta Society would laud Melanie as the paragon of Christian Womanhood. Melanie would abhor any vulgar displays of racism, but she is still a racist.

There is a wisdom booklet out there somewhere that has a timeline of Christianity from Jesus to Martin Luther that explains how Christianity existed outside the Catholic church. It is also batshit insane. Some fundies cannot handle the thought that the Roman Catholic Church was the Christian Church from Peter to 1517. This timeline includes many French and English sects that existed in that time period and all of them were somehow the "true church" that the RCC persecuted. Think Cathars and Lollards. I wish I had saved it. This was something I found online. I cannot remember if it was on the old TWOP boards or on Patheos.

As a librarian who orders both print and ebooks, ebooks were invented for you to stealthily read books shame-free. I did not choose to purchase the Vuolo's book for my library, but I do order other nonfiction titles that are potentially embarrassing and they check out. And the ebook stats never show who has checked out the book, they only show that the book has been checked out. Privacy is baked into every library ebook software.

I'm 40 and your last point was still being taught in NC when I went to high school. In college, the standard line was slavery was bad, but you know there were only 3 plantations in NC in 1861 with more than 100 slaves. Heavily implying that it wasn't as bad here compared to other states because NC was poor. They really bent over backwards to justify things.

What's the rush when you are no longer working royals. Also, they are on another continent than his family. Maybe there was a delay in making sure Harry broke the news to his Dad and Grandmother. They announced early for California, so they must have drafted the release yesterday.

Yeah, that's Archie and Meghan is pregnant with Lili.

I also love this tribute to Elizabeth as the person, Harry's beloved Gran. Not Elizabeth the Queen. It also pays homage to his great grandparents who bestowed the nickname on Elizabeth. I also cannot see Harry not getting Elizabeth's approval for this.

Stockings still are a thing for certain women. From thigh-highs with adhesive grip to stockings that require a garter belt, many women do still wear them. That being said, finding stockings in a brick and mortar store is not that easy.

Nowhere in the KJV does it say this. But, Jill and others have a very loose interpretation of the word neighbor in the 9th commandment. To them, its okay in Gods eyes to bear false witness to the unsaved especially if you are in the process of converting them. Your neighbor means those who are saved in the correct way. Jill and everyone else we talk about in this thread claim they are bible believers meaning they take the whole KJV literally, but they sure do interpret the hell out of it. Other things not in the KJV, their belief that all homosexuals are bound straight to hell, the Sinner's Prayer (there is no right way to be saved in any version of the Bible), and their belief that women must always dress modestly because men cannot control their own urges. In fact, Jesus is very clear in placing the onus of that one on the men.

Fundies like Jill do not see lying to regular people as a sin. Lying to other Christians is a sin. Christian meaning someone who is saved according to the tenets of Jill's form of Christianity. Everyone else is an unclean heathen who needs saving. So, in Jill's mind she can fudge the truth to her social media followers because she does not know if all of them are the right kind of Christian. As long as she has one single hate follower, she can spin whatever story she wants to sell her Plexus. She will also block you if you call her out on her hypocrisy.

Nah, Jessa picked the first book on Amazon that fit the "big sister" keyword.

Daddy MacArthur and Jeremy are anti prosperity gospel, but only for others. One of the main tenets of prosperity gospel is that if you believe enough, pray enough, tithe enough that God will bless you with riches, meaning anyone could potentially become rich through God's favor. This is too egalitarian for MacArthur. He prefers clear class distinctions with him and his chosen on the top. Jeremy's conspicuous consumption has nothing to do with him being blessed by God in some way that others could also be blessed. It's just what happens to him naturally as a straight, white, cisgender male in America.

Gabby performed at one of the county music awards in April and Cade was playing the guitar. It could have been a covid thing. I can totally see him being constantly at her side while she navigates her career.

Jeremy looks costume-y because the clothes are a costume. He is constantly wearing clothes that are not him, and it shows. I don't know who Jeremy is, and I suspect he does not as well. He keeps on bouncing from one style to another and looking ridiculous instead of taking the time to figure out who Jeremy Vuolo is and dressing accordingly. Cade has a punchable face, but he is country so his big belt buckle, hat and boots work. We compliment Jill Dillard for her boho style because it suits who Jill is. Jeremy and Jinger are still figuring themselves out and they always look a bit off in their pictures.

I live in an area of the South where if you scratch the surface you find many things people take for granted have racist roots. There is a local private school that opened in 1970 for one very specific reason that no one mentions. This is a real thing that happens to people living in the South or in states like Missouri. Yes, there needs to be discussion about the racist roots of these institutions, but some people's reaction to this news about Ellie on social media is extreme.