I felt like my guts reflexively shriveled up inside me

They also happen to look a wee bit like Soon-Yi & Dylan.

It’s a reference to how all the women doing these interviews use oil to shine up their legs.

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Wasn’t that song slutshaming some other chick?

I posted the same thing yesterday! This is all SO clique-y. Taylor Swift, for all her ‘niceness’ and her ‘sweetness’ is DEFINITELY a Regina George in sheep’s clothing

What you said before was not ‘this is part of your culture’ etc was basically that South & East Asians are ‘white pleasing people’ There’s a difference. I don’t know if you know any of them outside academia, but either way, you’re the one who’s being a cunt rn.

We all know they’re, primarily in the present, White-pleasing people.

Wow.

I remember reading one book with Native americans - that I winced my way through it. The author’s idea of the Native american character POV is basically talk about different gods, shoot arrows and compare everything to trees, and rivers. She passes for white too, of course.

The entire Romance genre has a HUGE race problem. The worst is when authors use slavery and colonization, usually of Indians to prove how openminded and kind their main characters are. None of the enslaved or the colonized are actually characters, they’re just Social Justice Projects so the reader could feel good…

It’s not just with her historical novels, as I mentioned, but in a couple of her contemporary novels as well. I would also like it if she didn’t use customs that are, you know, pretty stereotypical to bank on the how different the Hero is. In a way, the downtrodden Romani are a springboard for the Heroine to prove how…

Ugh I get judged by the cashier dude at my bookstore whenever I buy bodice rippers. I was afraid to own my love for them at the beginning, so I had to throw in some book about Prez Truman’s economic policies or whatever to compensate for my inferiority complex. But now I deliberately pick books with the most dramatic…

I was so surprised at this, because I had a discussion about Lisa Kleypas’s books just yesterday on the post about Franzen. I want to premise this by saying that I do enjoy her books, and she is truly good at constructing a romance and the book Blue Eyed Devil was so good at depicting domestic violence and its…

The song is about her, Taylor said so in an interview. Maybe bullying is the wrong word? Clique-y?

But the way this is different is that it’s obviously a feud - but when she wrote songs about her ex-es, she didn’t get like 15 uber famous people to sort of endorse it. If all these people appeare in the Dear John video, it would be mean spirited and bully-ish too. Something very clique-ish about it.

Uh I don’t think the sketch is based on this interview at all. Seth Meyers is surprisingly a better interviewer than Fallon, Conan and Letterman (half of the time Letterman is so meh)

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I know we’re all in love with Tay Tay but doesn’t this whole Bad Blood thing honestly feel like bullying? I mean, I know Katy Perry is a pop star and it’s weird to like victimize someone but Taylor made sure everyone knew who the song was about and now she’s getting like a ton of famous friends to be in the video.…

Yep, I watched it again and there was definitely some Letterman in there, a bit of Leno and Conan’s weird crazy man shtick.