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Kara Brown
karabrown
Senior Writer, Jezebel

He doesn’t have to do either, but if he is serious about doing anything but profiting from the same white privilege he is aware of and shoots down in his bad, pandering songs, his refusal to wallow in it one way or another would be a good start. Read more

If this is as far as he goes, then it's appropriation of a very real issue for the purpose of promoting his relevance. Given his history of participating in the white washing of the industry, the onus is on him to prove that his intentions are benevolent rather than self serving. Read more

No, but he was a producer on Argo. Read more

Because speaking up is worthless when you are LITERALLY CAPABLE OF CHANGING THE GAME YOURSELF YET YOU STILL DON’T. Because it’s completely hypocritical. Read more

If you want to be a tv or film writer, creating female characters with depth who are more than plot devices and have agency should be competency, not excellence. Read more

Pump your brakes a bit. No one is saying Lyme Disease isn’t a thing. They’re saying the probability that both Yolanda and two of her children have it is incredibly low— so low that it’s probably not actually this thing. That she might have another thing, or a combination of things. Read more

This article doesn’t deny the existence of Lyme disease. It actually talks in depth about how serious it is, how to detect it, treatments. Read more

no one is saying lyme doesnt exist. they are saying something in the water aint right with yolanda. Read more

This is even weirder to me because I have a friend who has been going through the exact same thing for years now. “Chronic Lyme” with tons of home remedies and vitamins and diet and IVs and little actual western medicine. I really feel for this friend but the whole thing is just so damn confusing and really doesn’t Read more