After another pause Sandberg asked her to repeat this hardly complex question — before affirming "yes, yes" and then hastily qualifying it with: "But only I think when they see really authentic content because I think in the short run and over the long run it doesn't benefit us to have anything inauthentic on our platform".
It sparked rage and frustration and anger, but it was the fuel for an antislavery movement, for a civil war and three amendments to our Constitution and an overhaul of our systems to align our ideals to affirm that, yes, black lives do matter.
Recognizing the question for what it was, Bryant invoked Carmelo Anthony's name and essentially affirmed that yes, the Knicks need Anthony's help.
The result was a 4-2 victory for St . Louisat Fenway Park, evening this World Series at one game apiece and affirming that, yes, the Cardinals can loosen up in the spotlight and, yes, the Red Sox can be beaten on this stage.
(Earlier in the afternoon, Jan Brewer, the former governor of Arizona and legislative mother of that state's Draconian immigration policies, nearly undoes all the good right-wing work of her career by affirming that, yes, Trump is "going to build the Fence". Like new Americans who have just been told that Hulk Hogan was the first President, the crowd rises up in happy outrage to correct her).
By affirming that, yes, indeed, baseball and matchbox cars are "boy things" and unicorns and purses (as well as mani-pedis and stilettos) are "girl" things, I'm actively working against the culture I ultimately want to live in, one where activities and animate objects are not gendered or employed to police the expectations we have of our tiny humans.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes and yes.
Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes.
