“People used to accept my casual bullying but now it’s a unseemly! Too bad it’s part of my self-image now, that can and will never be questioned*” Read more
Look, Megyn Kelly is a lot of things, but she’s not stupid. She’s been in the public eye for a couple of decades and knows damn well how this shit works. You will never convince me she was somehow unaware of the social and political baggage that blackface carries, and only discovered that now. Read more
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“Politically Correct” also means “diplomatic” or “respectful.” It’s important to always keep that in mind when someone is trying to boast that they aren’t “PC” and never will be Read more
So nobody in here is capable of thinking about two different things? Like, you can only think Chuck Schumer sucks OR Taylor Swift is self-serving? but not both? Read more
How is questioning Taylor Swift going to lead to Democrats losing in the midterms? Read more
All I saw were some legitimate questions that Taylor Swift has never answered in her long public career. If that’s self-righteous, let’s just stop asking any questions of any famous person at all. Read more
How else is an audience burnt out on her media machinations to interpret a sudden foray into the political arena two years too late? Why is what’s happening now more urgent than actively and loudly denouncing the alt-right for claiming her as their Aryan princess? Read more
Please don’t call this well-written essay “a rant.” It is criticism of a powerful, famous artist who has tried to silence critics and journalists in the past. If you can read all this and come out of it thinking the writer just “dislikes” Taylor Swift then I really don’t know what to tell you. Read more
And those people deserve calling out as opposed to congratulating a very rich person who dodged the question for two years, while people in much more vulnerable circumstances were willing to take the risk, until it was “safe” enough to say “Trump is bad for us all”. Read more
I’d argue it’s not “self-righteous” at all to call out a very powerful individual only choosing a side years late and only when it’s an easy choice to make. Read more
Just like Kate Middleton’s hair and make up was done by professionals in the photo Keira Knightly complained about. Knightly should know better than most that one staged photo does not represent your normal life Read more
I don’t recognize myself at all in Knightley’s birth experience. I also didn’t look like the cover below three months after giving birth. That’s the september issue of Elle, Knightley’s daughter was born in may.
Yeah, the vitriol toward Middleton personally seems misplaced. Kate Middleton has very little freedom here. She doesn’t get to refuse to publicly perform pregnancy and motherhood. Of course Kate Middleton doesn’t present a realistic image; being a perfect princess is like her entire goddamned job. Read more
Maybe she didn’t vomit, piss, and shit. I didn’t. Everyone’s birthing story is different. When I was checking out of the hospital I saw women I’d seen the day before, when we were all still pregnant, some looked like they had been through hell and back while others looked like they picked flowers. Two women came up to… Read more
Keira is a world renowned movie star if she feels there are people out there over the age of twelve who still think giving birth is a walk in the park she can feel free to leave the hospital and let the paps snap her looking any way she pleases. Read more
One important detail here is the female rage itself, which I’d argue is the fifth member of this group. To get attention, to be taken seriously, to stand up for herself, to fend off a sexual predator, etc. these female characters are literally reduced to taking up arms and violence. Why? Because in the traditional… Read more