I just said it. Open wounds. Foreign matter. Big difference from breathing in tiny particles.

Surgeons wear masks during surgery to keep open wounds from getting contaminated, to prevent infection in wounds! Not only do masks protect from "germs" but also from foreign matter like food, etc., that might be present in a person's mouth! That is completely different from masking while a person is ill. I can't believe thinking people would correlate the two.

This is a disgusting take on the controversy. First to categorize people's objections as "screeching" or being "broody hens" which are both sexist statements. I hope you examine your own misogyny here. Then to assume that people won't cancel Netflix (I did btw). or that they commonly watch "asinine reality shows where women are sexualized" or "men brutalizing women." I for one hate all reality shows because of the types of themes that are so common, including stereotyping and looking down on women like you're doing. And just to point out, the things you mentioned there involved ADULTS and we're talking about CHILDREN. Assuming everyone is a hypocrite is sure an easy way to pretend that what we're talking about doesn't matter. And yes, I watched it. Yes, I cancelled. Yes, I'm horrified that it got made and I'm even more horrified by people defending this. I know what sexual exploitation and abuse of children is and does because it happened to me.

I might not be a "recent Muslim immigrant" but I for one was certainly not sheltered, not even slightly. I was in foster care from the age of 3. I know what happens to girls with no parents, girls who no one looks out for, who are trying to find their place in the world. They get sexualized at a very young age, often by parents and foster parents and teachers and coaches and priests. Sure, talking about that is helpful. I talk about a ton of sensitive things like this with my daughter, who is 11 herself. And sometimes girls this young may even be exploring their own sexual feelings at this age of viewing how other girls and women use their bodies for attention or material gain and wonder if they should also. But there is a big, big difference between children doing this on their own and parents having discussions with them about it vs adults like all of the people involved in this movie having 600 girls come dance provocatively for them to see if the could do it right, picking a few of them and teaching them even more moves and sucking on fingers while looking at the camera and slapping their own vagina over their very skimpy clothing, and then having them perform it over and over for a whole crew and camera so they can get that dance scene just right enough to look as bad as it does. And then the director and editors went through all that film and picked shots that zoom in on litter girls vaginas and butts to look as provocative as possible. The message the words of the movie are trying to say does not matter more than the one being made by the images, and certainly not more than what these little girls were made to do for a movie.

Sitting down with a child and explaining them how to dance provocatively, suck on their fingers, frame their vagina for the camera, etc and then talking to them about how they feel and that it's all okay because it's for a good reason is textbook grooming. This is the exact thing abusers do. "It's just this little thing. It will make me happy. See, nothing bad happened. How do you feel? Doesn't that make you feel good that you made me happy?" Just because a director, psychologist or parent is the one saying it doesn't make it any less grooming and child exploitation than the sex offender down the street that everyone imagines as some creepy old guy. Because most abusers are in fact people who put themselves in positions of trust. This movie DID normalize this for these girls. Making this movie had them doing all of these actions and told them it was okay if it was for a good reason.

My daughter and I have been reading and enjoying The Notebook of Doom and Dragon Masters series.

Regarding the whining when a fun activity is over, I always give my daughter a time count when time is running out. "Ok, we can play 10 more minutes and then I need to make dinner." It helps it be less of a surprise and disappointment to my daughter. Regarding the class, is your daughter introverted or extroverted? I find myself often dreading leaving the house even for activities I enjoy because I'm fairly introverted. Sometimes I have to convince myself I really will enjoy it. And it helps if I have some quiet or alone time before and after. If she is introverted that's something to consider.

Of course there's a difference. One perfectly illustrates the whole belief system you're espousing here, so cultural history is of course good enough. The other didn't fit what you wanted to hear, so your first demanded evidence, then decided it was irrelevant because it might go against one of the other ideas you're arguing for here. It's arrogance and rigidity of belief at it's finest.

Not talking about it's significance. I'm talking about your demand for evidence on onehand, but lack of care on the other. It shows where you are being obtuse.

So cultural history is good enough to support your view of Sodom and Gomorrah, but cultural history isn't enough to support whether or not Native Americans allowed gay people to marry? Be careful, your blinders are showing.

I believe I stated that Apple clearly had the right to remove whichever games it chooses from the App Store. What is irritating about that is the kneejerk, ill-thought-out reaction to whitewash everything. It is poorly considered. That one man recently used a Confederate battle flag to support his twisted beliefs does not make all depictions of them racist. Showing what actually happened in history is not racist. A game about this Civil War will of course show a Confederate flag. Just like games about Roman wars will show Roman Eagle standards. Just like a game about World War II will show Nazi flags. Unless Apple has simultaneoulsy removed all World War II games because of Nazi flags (which they haven't), then this is clearly just a reactionary move made out of political correctness, not thought.

http://toucharcade.com/2015/06/25/apple-removes-confederate-flag/ Apple has removed all Civil War based games from the App store because the Confederate battle flag might be shown in them. It's one thing to remove the flag from government property. But removing games because they're historically accurate? Obviously Apple has this right, but this is exactly the kind of knee-jerk blanket condemnation without thought that some people have been concerned about. I personally agree the battle flag should not be flown on government property but this kind of thing with even games being taken down by companies really irritates me.

My 6 year old daughter and I saw it today. She's never been as especially sensitive kid, but lately she's been worrying over death and the idea of losing a parent. (Because she's now mature enough to understand that my mom is dead and what that means.) She burst into tears at least 5 or 6 times during the movie. I cried some too. I agree with others that it was somewhat tedious even though it did a good job portraying the workings of the brain. But I told my husband it wasn't one we needed to see again or that he would really enjoy. I really enjoyed the Lava short at the beginning. But I love music and it had the feeling of a cultural myth. I have no idea if it actually might be though.

There were Northern states that still practiced slavery until the Thirteenth Amendment was passed in late 1865, after the end of the Civil War. The last Confederate general surrendered in June 1865, but the amendment wasn't official until December 1865. Slavery continued in some parts of the Union, including Northern states, until that time.

When I have time, I work out the tangles slowly from the bottom up, but if my daughter wakes up with tangles in the morning, I don't have 20 minutes to carefully comb through tangles. When that happens, my daughter screams like she's going to die. I was tender-headed when young too, so I understand, but it's stressful. I've found that the best way to avoid that terrible mats of tangles is to brush and braid before bed, and then brush and braid, or at least ponytail it, in the morning. If I leave her hair down when she goes to school, I have to brush it that night before bed and the tangles are usually pretty bad. If I go 24 hours without brushing her hair, it's terrible. If you don't know how to french braid, my cheat for that is to put the hair in a ponytail and do a simple braid of the ponytail. I'm a terrible braider. I've watched a bunch of videos on youtube to get better at it. And there are an amazing amount of cute styles of braiding that people have come up with that keep the braids from being boring for my daughter.