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in fairness to them, in the 1980s the conventional wisdom was that the right way to go in transracial adoption was to "not see race." Remember when Jack said "I don't see color, I just see my son"? If they did read a book about it, that's exactly the attitude it would have recommended.

especially where he says for breakfast he needs something to "warm his whole body up." I bet you do, Jimmy.

can I just mention how incredibly twisted Janine and Lydia's relationship is? Lydia is the one that got her eye removed in the first place, and now when she gives her an eye patch to cover it, they both see it as this warm act of kindness? it's so, so twisted.

Randall thinks their rhythm is off, and that's because she's not playing the part he expects her to anymore. I think that statement of his was very telling. He thinks of the way they work as being a team, always in rhythm, but he doesn't realize that only works because Beth's part of that rhythm is to support his choices and smooth the way for him. He has taken for granted and not noticed all the things she has done for 20 years to make things work for him.

I thought teen Kevin was especially uncanny in channeling adult Kevin.

a 28 week preemie has an 80-90% chance of survival.

Not this family! This family stays! And woe to any fool who thinks she has a right to come eat pretzels near them in a public waiting room!

I actually thought that Rebecca was going to collapse at the end with a stroke or heart attack. I figured that would be the big thing that would leave us speechless - after all that, Kate and baby are fine, but Rebecca collapses. Also I totally have noticed that outlets look like surprised faces before and now I'm wondering if that makes me weird.

I have a feeling there were some pretty epic meetings about what had to be cut and what didn't. I too am baffled that "think twice before you poo poo it" got changed. I mean, what? that's not even....it's something a grandma might say! I think a lot of it had to do with what could be cut without doing too much damage. Cutting "poo poo it" didn't really hurt anything, and changing dildos to latex wasn't too bad. It was still kind of risqué and slipped pretty seamlessly into the song. They probably gave up lines like that up as bargaining chips, to get some latitude to keep things that really would have been hard to change. I was pleasantly shocked that "sodomy, it's between God and me" made it through, and also "to faggots, lezzies, dykes, crossdressers too!" But really, how could you cut either of those without totally messing up the song?

yeah, I think it's hard for people who weren't around then to realize what that part of the AIDS epidemic was like. I remember stories of people being turned away by hospitals and funeral homes because people were so terrified of catching the disease. There are very few diseases with a 100% mortality rate, but in the early 1990s, AIDS was one. Think how scared we get of diseases like cancer that *might* kill you. At that time, this was a disease that if you had it, it DID kill you. It wasn't until at least the mid90s, long after Mimi, Roger and Collins would have been dead, that people started thinking that *maybe* HIV could be managed like a chronic disease and people could live more than a couple of years with it.

I obsessively love Rent, but this dog thing has always bothered me. Mainly the fact that we are supposed to love and embrace Angel knowing she murdered a dog. And also the fact that apparently Larson thought an akita was some sort of small yappy fluffy dog. When they're more like german shepherds with an Asian flair. I just sort of ignore the whole dog thing as best I can and I like to think that's one of the flaws he would have revised if he had lived. Also, I can't believe they don't have understudies in these live shows. what a stupid risk to take, and I can't believe this is the first time that has come back to bite them.

boundaries aren't really a thing for the characters on this show. People are sharing their feelings and deep fears with random strangers on this show ALL the time.

he is trying, and his intentions are good, but there's something so condescending about the way he thought he could just swoop in and save the poor neighborhood. He's being obliviously classist the same way some people are obliviously racist. He marches in, talks about everything that's wrong with the neighborhood and how he's going to be their savior. Instead of just coming to be WITH them, get to know them, and find out what they think and want. This is what ChiChi was trying to say when she said "you're not one of us." (as a friend of mine in college once clarified to her boyfriend, "we are not an Us."). He means so well but he needs to learn to listen to people instead of barging in to be their savior. On another note, it's so sad to see him feeling like he belongs nowhere. Doesn't fit with white people, doesn't fit with black people. He's just trying to find who he can be an "us" with.

seriously? I'm a big believer in always using the car seat, but I'm pretty sure this is one situation where you could make an exception.

if you notice, there are no words on signs - the shops and the delivery truck that June escaped in all have pictorial symbols instead of words. Can't have words just sitting around where women might read them. That's one reason why it was shocking/forbidden for Fred to play scrabble with June, and for her to have words scratched into her closet wall.