Huh. If you hadn’t specified, I would’ve thought you were talking about the ball-jointed doll communities, which I always thought were just an extension of figurine collecting. Except, people don’t usually carry around figurines, dress and feed them, like so many BJD collectors do.

…they couldn’t be bothered with stories about her?

Also, the link to the AP story is directed at the WaPo story.

He and the Texas Congress just cut the budget of mental health providers and school across the state! I have no words to express how horrified I am with this. “If you don’t like it, vote for someone else” just does not cut it here.

I took an anthropology class a few years back and we discussed how repressive/oppressive cultures (beliefs, ethics, etc.) could cause the people of that subset to allow contradicting expressions or actions to relieve the tension caused by the repression/oppression. I don’t watch the show, so I don’t know what their toxic relationship entails, but I [...]