Fifty Shades Darker

We get one movie per week in our little town, this one, showing now through Valentine's Day.
"Most women who meet real-life Christian Greys end up battered or in graveyards...women can put up with a lot of crap hoping things will change, but especially when it comes to real relationships with abusive partners, romance and an abuse-sympathizing plot are a really bad combination. Fifty Shades sells it as a good thing." 

When the 'Fifty Shades Darker' Ads Give You Disturbing Flashbacks You Know Something's Wrong.

Women are beaten and die every single day in domestic violence cases. I, for one, with my own suitcase of relational abuse baggage, am not going to spend one dime toward this kind of twisted misogynistic message.

Flat Caps and Immigrants

"Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists."- FDR.
Seven centuries ago the Flat Cap originated in Ireland and spread universally throughout Europe, crossing the ocean to America four hundred years later on immigrants' heads bearing almost as many names as the men who wore them. My year long admiration of this versatile Old World cap in Italy and back at home in Spain didn't change my traditional gentleman's mind. "That cap is for old men", he'd tell me. "Do you think I'm an old man, a hick?, with feigned offense. There didn't seem to be a chance I'd ever convince him of his need for such practical good looks. Then, last Tuesday, on market day, he grinned a teasing smile and asked me to pick out my favourite tweed. Loving this immigrant cap on my old-fashioned chap.
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