Lurker > lydiaquayle

Dreaming?

Because I think there's no way in hell that he's still dreaming.

My fiance's parents live where Taylor's dad lives and we've met him and spoke for about 15 minutes at breakfast one time, guy is super nice but he's been LOADED for ages, him and his buddies backed Taylor's career early on. She's the furthest thing from 'self-made' lmfao

and since when is miss a title you receive for your character?

Johnson: Last night was a setback, but democracy is messy. We live in a time of divided government. We have a razor-thin margin here, and every vote counts. Sometimes when youre counting votes and people show up when theyre not expected to be in the building, it changes the equation.

The Miss X pageant circuit claims to represent wholesome feminist values. A contestant involved in an extramarital affair, or does drugs, or commits a crime, or poses nude in Playboy, etc., typically gets disqualified or outright loses their crown (remember Vanessa Williams?) . Remember, this is less about this being Japan, and more about the values of the organizations that run the female beauty pageant circuit.

Eugh. Not accusing you of it, but the idea marriage as this sort of settling concept is so gross to me. Like, I'm gonna get married because I want only my girl. Full emotional investment. Full everything investment.

She doesn't want kids.. Damn it's getting so common these days for women to not want kids.

If the story is good it doesn't matter what color the characters skin is, but once you start forcing them to add characters into the story just for the sake of being there it completely diminishes the value of those characters.

I thought everybody in Japan cheats?

That opens up new doors, but it's also limiting if you're imposing a filter of "Do it, but in the modern era," or "Do it, but in the future." You can have King Arthur... so long as the story takes place in the 25th century in the galaxy known as Avalon.

If you're doing a Captain Sinbad or Aladdin story, 90% or more of the cast should be Arab. If you're doing a Zorro story, 80% of the cast or more should be Latino/Latina. If you're doing a Mulan story, in all honesty, the entire (human) cast should be Chinese. If you're doing a story based on Robin Hood or King Arthur, 80% of the cast or more should be White.

That's all I'm trying to say.

If they want to make an animated series based off of Beauty and the Beast, 18th century France is suddenly going to have larger Black and Asian populations because, "If magic beasts and talking teacups can exist, why can't they?" If Belle's best friend is Asian and the royal captain of the guard is Black, I could still accept that this is 18th century France through an idyllic lens. But if you reimagine it so that ethnic French people make up less than 50% of the cast, you might as well set the story in Middle Earth, Eternia, or Hyrule. "French" is an architecture and not an ethnicity.

Disney's heart is in the right place, but I can't say that I'm on board with *every* program having < 50% of the cast be comprised of members of underrepresented groups.

Thats like not in risk of any legal bullshit where the murderer gets away right?

Who steals a random memory card.

Well, this entire topic was created under the guise of racism so you are correct...just not in the way you think.

Think it has very little to do with their bank accounts and more to do with their political leanings.

taylor swift grew up in a very wealthy family. Her parents were millionaires and this directly led to her getting opportunities

Sounds like projection to me.

Taylor Swift is the Michael Jackson of the 21st century

Like...seriously this is making Biden and the whole democracy party look out of touch when they are not even really taking this as a issue and acting like only the rich matter..

Taylor writes and makes original music

Not to say that I think very highly of Taylor Swift, but she at least creates her own shit.

"On the US Billboard Hot 100, as of November 2023, Swift is the female musician with the most charted songs (231), most top-40 songs (137), most top-20 songs (85), most top-10 songs (49), most top-10 debuts (38), most top-five songs (31), and most number-one debuts (6)."

Is Beyonce lacking in respect? If she was the most popular, would it mean that "certain groups" now have respect?

Because there can only be one person on top and people want to know who is superior. I used to think it was Beyonce but now it definitely feels like Swift.

They're both insanely popular; why does it have to be a competition?

I only know one Beyonce song

I am a research professor at a Japanese university. Guess what all the European students do? Hang out with each other.

And for that matter the Chinese, Korean, Thai, Indonesian, etc. students also all hang out with each other.

Kentucky,
Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania,
Virginia.

Are they not states? Why are they commonwealths? When i think commonwealth, i think Canada/New Zealand/etc to the British Crown.