Thanks. My guess is that it is a loss people can’t conceptualize and also the thought of babies or children dying is scary, so people put up walls to pretend like these things aren’t real. We are accustomed to the concept of death after someone is “old” (even if we try to fight it), but not the very young.

this obviously isn’t the case with Teigen. To her this was her son and a person, not just a dead baby. Don’t turn this into something else than a mother losing her child.

true, but anyone who hates on a woman who just lost their child and doing whatever she feels is right for her right now is probably a pretty gross person.

Cultural expectations around sharing online are still evolving. The hate on Teigen is from people who are uncomfortable with the direction its moving and not self aware enough to realize the issue lies with them and not the media or the participants.

social convention seems to be to expect parents to grieve quietly and alone. That’s part of the reason we told basically no one about my first two miscarriages

When it relates to pregnancy or neonatal loss the general social convention seems to be to expect parents to grieve quietly and alone. That’s part of the reason we told basically no one about my first two miscarriages. After my third loss, which was life threatening for me, I told a few people in dips and drabs. One…

Yes! I’ve been infiltrating Q groups lately to see wtf they’re doing and besides thinking:

Maybe the part of the problem with American culture is that we are constantly asking the victims of bad behavior to change their behavior instead of the perpetrators. I have truly never experienced a culture like this and I am a child of immigrants and lived lots of places.

I always cringe at blaming people for their own abuse because a social media platform outgrew itself before making a plan to handle abuse of its platform by the masses. Instagram (as now owned by FB) has no incentive to make itself good for people, and abuse should not be taken as a given. It’s what’s allowed because…

Yeah...no. Where it’s coming from is from people being assholes, full stop. If people’s “buttons are pushed” by “internet celebrities” or whatever you want to call them, it’s pretty easy to avoid. Just don’t follow them. Yeah, you’ll see some posts, but again, easy solution: Don’t click on them. And even if you do…

You won’t ever physically go through this.  You don’t understand the shame.  Take a seat.

chide her for not grieving properly.

Damned if you do. Damned if you don’t.

People need to know that it is fine to not agree with someone’s way of life while understanding that expressing that opinion can be incredibly harmful. Chadwick Boseman was a live life quietly kind of man. His cancer diagnosis was not the only thing he did in silence. His marriage was carefully guarded. That…

A lot of hospitals offer photography in situations like this, so its not necessarily a glamourous photoshoot. I’ve known non-famous people who post these on their social media accounts to essentially say, “they existed in this world. they will be remembered.” It wasn’t thirsty or fake for them to do it, and I think…

who gives a fuck how Chrissy chooses to deal with her grief, that’s up to her. if you have the option to hate on her pain or not hate on her pain, just choose not to hate on it.

I don’t care what backpack she buys for her daughter, I just want her to pay more taxes.

“a bag that could cover most peoples’ rent for up to two years”
Are most people paying only $500/month in rent???

Ehhhhh, I don’t think Hermes hands out freebies. They are one of the very few true luxury brands still standing, and that kind of traditional luxe is built on exclusivity. You want a Kelly? You’ll probably have to return to the shop a couple of times before Hermes decides to allow you to buy one—and you won’t get a…

I mean, $12k is a drop in the bucket for Kylie so maybe she doesn’t care if it gets destroyed, but I saw these pics earlier and assumed it was one of her own bags and she had Stormi pose with it because it’s cute and looks like a regular backpack on a tiny person.