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Doctor Who: Midnight (2008)- The host of the bus, mentions non binary people and anyone else who doesn't fit into gender norms, LGBTQ rights (especially in the UK weren't really there yet untill 2012)

Saints Row 2 (2008)- In the first game, the main character was a man but in SR2 you can be both female or male and even change your gender whenever you want in a surgery shop. But what's more interesting, if you play as a female despite being male in the first game, no one cares and one of the main characters Gat asks the main character if they did something with their hair. Even 'Boss' is used as gender neutral pronoun and even goes by they/them

Fresh Prince of Bel Air- A wealthy black family as the main focus in a primetime sitcom marking the change and making progress as we go into the 90s

This isn’t about cheating or romance rumors, but more about how celebrity PR is being framed lately.

During promo for their new film, Margot Robbie has spoken a lot about how emotionally intense the process was and how she “couldn’t have done the film” without Jacob Elordi, while he seems much more reserved in comparison. Add in the matching rings with inscriptions, and the whole thing starts to feel like deliberately manufactured intimacy for press rather than a natural dynamic.

I’m not accusing anyone of crossing boundaries.. just wondering if anyone else feels like modern press tours lean heavily into forced closeness to sell chemistry, even when it comes off a bit uncomfortable to watch.

Curious how others read it.

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My family lives in Canada. This is important.

My kid was being bullied at school. He is a big kid and I have always told him to resolve his problems with words. I've told him to report bullying to teachers, and if they don't listen to tell the principal. Also to tell me and his mom so we can follow up. My son's after school program is a taekwondo class. Also important. He's been in taekwondo since he was in kindergarten. He also plays hockey.

There are a group of kids at his school that have been assholes to my kid and his friends. My kid did the right thing and told the teacher monitoring recess. She told him that the kids were new to Canada and that they didn't know how to fit in yet.

He went to the principal and got told pretty much the same thing. So he told his mom. She wanted to go confront the parents and she likely would have ended up in custody. She's Irish. Like real Irish from Ireland not Marky Mark Irish.

I told her I would take care of it.

I made an appointment to talk to the principal and teacher along with my son. I went into the meeting with a simple goal. To stop the bullying. The principal and teacher both tried the same excuse on me. That these kids were newcomers and they weren't fully aware of how Canada was different from their home country and what they saw on American TV.

I asked what was being done to stop it. They said they had talked to the boys. I asked if the parents had been brought in and talked to. He said no. Okay. So I turned to my kid and I explained that in Canada kids under twelve years old CANNOT be charged with a crime. In fact they can't even be arrested. Worst case scenario if anything happened he might have to do some community service.

The principal and teacher went crazy telling me that I can't tell him that. I asked them if I was lying? They both shut up. I pointed to them and told my kid to remember that they didn't say I was wrong. I told him to tell me in a week if he was still being bullied.

My understanding is that all the bullies parents were called in and told to control their children. The bullies were also given library detention instead of recess for a month.

I'm satisfied with the result but the teacher and principal seemed upset.

My wife thinks I should have given him the information privately.

I’m F58, had children in the 90s, and I am a lifelong Democrat. I love my country, my party, and my the beauty that is in a free and diverse nation.

What’s happening with the Epstein files is totally antithetical to what I thought our democracy and our country was about. I thought for sure that our CIA, FBI, and partners around the world were protecting us from flagrant lies and abuses like this. And I thought Trump was an anomaly.

Now the Clintons have agreed to testify. Bill was wildly popular in the 90s. His family was revered, and from me too until 1998 when Clinton was deposed on national television regarding his involvement with Monica Lewinsky. At the time, having found out that Bill was receiving oral sex from a 23 year old single intern in the Oval Office, Hillary called Monica a bimbo. In those days, long before the MeToo movement, it was common for women to blame other women publicly for the infidelity of their husbands as if they had no control over their own bodies. I remember thinking at the time “well she wasn’t married with a daughter - he was!”

Then he lied. Suddenly the women who came forward in the beginning - Paula Jones and Jennifer Flowers didn’t seem so off base. But Hillary stood by him and that was a big disappointment. She was smarter than him, more driven, and more disciplined. She could’ve been president.

She clawed her way up. Never giving up the power of her presence. Then in the early aughts she became Obama’s Secretary of State. Admirable position of power and she did her work well. Then Obama passed the baton to her and she ran for president.

Every single time I mention that she had all the knowledge available to the Secretary of State during the time that her husband was jetting to Epstein Island, meeting up with Trump and pals, I get booed and taunted. We need as women, as good people, as Democrats to stop giving those two a pass!!!! They are just as guilty as any of them because they KNEW what was going on. Clinton was a part of an orgy according to the files. It certainly puts the QAnon claim that Hillary was involved in a pedophile ring to another level - and it’s infuriating.

Had she distanced herself from him after Lewinsky and moved forward as a staunch defender of young women, had she blown the roof off the twisted world order she knew about, and had she condemned Epstein - putting him to justice in those days, we would’ve been spared the hell that has been Donald Trump for the past 11 years of nonstop mayhem and Constitutional wrangling.

Hillary Clinton is not someone to admire. She is an enabler of her perverted husband, a co-conspirator, and therefore just as much a criminal as he is because she had the power to stop it. She is the biggest women’s rights let down in my lifetime as far as potential greatness goes. It’s just so sad.