I considered blogging about this. I’ve learned so many financial lessons from other people’s mistakes, it isn’t funny. After reading financial advice columns written by women and meeting with women who owned and managed investment firms, few even mentioned some of these pitfalls.
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Nope. The kids would have loved you!
But all it takes is one male student complaining about this assignment to his parents. I had 99.6% positive experiences teaching over 10 years, but I had three HS boys who really hated to be challenged by a female teacher.
They learn this from their parents.
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Oh, I am sooo not happy with that explanation.
Which is total bullshit.
They left the nightclub and went straight to the Black Awareness Rally, where he met Lisa.
(Also props to Sugar Cube; Fresh Peaches’ beat-boxin’ twin who never gets any love.)
ETA:
And at one point, Semi specifically complains that he has not had sex since arriving in America, after they had met the McDowell family.
That retcon is some pure-D GARBAGE.
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Yeah I’m thinking this one is going to be a pass for me too.
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Oh no, I’m gonna stream it just so I can hate it honestly.
I already had low expectations when I first heard a sequel was being made.
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You really don’t want to know about what they called Imani’s curse, either. Seriously, I spent 30 minutes trying to think of five things in the film that were actually funny and made me laugh. I’ve got 3.
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I’m already mad at the set up, only 10 minutes in;
Hakeem & Lisa have three strong, smart & capable daughters… so it’s basically sending the message that they are not ‘good enough’ to run the kingdom once Hakeem passes on… simply because they are not male???
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Sounds like one of those setups that takes the long route to get back to the obvious resolution that might have seemed like a bold stand for equality had the movie been made several generations ago but now seems just feels like insulting the audience.
I guess we’re supposed to believe the monarchy in that country is less progressive than England was during the time of Elizabeth I?
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They also made his father look bad, and the leader of the neighboring country look ridiculous with their nasty comments about his masculinity. That general and his whole stereotypical crew made me wonder if Trevor Noah saw the entire script.
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IIRC wasn’t he already a pretty obvious chauvinist in the first movie? I think he belittled Lisa in front of her family by saying Hakeem had simply been “sowing his royal oats” and then tried to pay off her father for the “inconvenience?”
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Long but excellent read…
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He did, and then ‘James Evans Sr’ showed up and threatened to put his foot up Jofre’s royal ass…
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True, but he supposedly reformed at the end. Also, he wasn’t so belittling and dismissive with his son. They never gave a timeline, but at some point Queen Aoleon died. I hope they weren’t implying that was the reason for the change. They kept falling back on blaming tradition and the law. The classic line from the queen in the first movie when he questioned his ability to make changes was, “I thought you were the king.”
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I guess the implication is that she was the only one who was able to stand up to him. “Put a sock in it, Joffe. The boy is in love!” was one of the more memorable lines from the first movie.
Of course it still seems like he should have had more than enough time for some character development of his own over the last 30-plus years.
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I hate Wesley Snipes.
That’s the comment.
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Same in my junior high in the Twin Cities. The boys whinged almost non-stop about home ec - and typing (mandatory for 7th graders). Not nearly as many girls whined about shop. And why would they? We were learning stuff that reduced our dependence on males. Shame the boys didn’t understand home ec the same way.
Typing…it’s embarrassing how many IT, GIS and CAD folks I’ve worked with over the years didn’t know how to type. Dog help them at my work station - my skin chemistry takes screen printing off the keyboard keys. If you don’t know how to type, you can’t use my computer.
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i didn’t learn typing in a class, i learned typing by typing. i’m 90% touch but generally use only 6 fingers. what gets bad is when i type on a keyboard with a different spacing than on my normal keyboard. when i got a district laptop my “spelling” took a turn for the weird and if i reached for backspace i was likely to type a series of \\\\ or ==== before i corrected that.
where and when i went to school neither typing, shop, nor home ec were mandatory for anyone. if you weren’t “college bound” the combination of typing and either hoe ec or shop was pushed by the counselor but still not mandatory. i thought about home ec as an elective but mom and dad had been teaching me to cook and my grandmother had been teaching me rudiments of sewing so i took drafting.
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Right wing fringe-turned-mainstream-conservative movements are a worldwide phenomenon. While I suspect the psychology is based in historically dominant subgroups reacting to loss of power to previously subjugated groups, the effect is just fucking terrifying. Part of me wants to see this as a dying spasm of the old mentality, but it can cause u told damage in that spasm.
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Is it in the realm of possibility that the intent was to show that the medieval social order embodied by “chivalry” is/was sexist and not very good for women? Maybe the intent was to show that life in the middle ages wasn’t all that romantic? (I doubt it but I’m looking for a way to be charitable.)
You aren’t the only one!
I tried to be charitable, too. But they write in the article that the goal was to “teach the boys about how bad things were for women,” but they did this by making the girls experience that badness while the boys ranked them! If they really wanted to show the boys what it was like, the boys would’ve been the ones forced to mince around and cheerfully plea for signatures to earn extra points. 
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