@perdue: Maybe she's genetically predisposed to be a fuckwit? I hear it happens.

@andBegorrah: Boners are the only reason the old white dudes of the GOP drafted her in the first place.

Hey, the Tea Party spent $100k on Palin's speaker's fee (plus private air travel) when she attended their national convention. Gotta raise the funds!

@perdue: You'd think that for what Harvard Law charges, and the educational achievements of its students, this assweasel would have figured that out by now. It's not like the internet is a new form of communication, and I'm fairly sure it's mentioned frequently in higher education.

@FearlessReader: Assweasel is a delightful word. It's fun to type AND fun to say.

Hats off to Trojan's marketing department. Any man can wear a Magnum condom.

@AndPreciousLittleofThat: Co-signed.

Harvard Law seems as good a place as any to learn that anything you put in writing can—and usually will—wind up on the internet, especially if what you put in writing exposes you as a racist, sexist assweasel.

@girlzilla: White privileged people are shallow when they go a place that's totally different from their little corner of the world and apply their ideals and standards to others without taking into account why or how someone else's experience might be different. Which is what Jessica did.

@girlzilla: But she said her reason for getting them was that they sagged after she had a baby. Not because she thought she would make money. She was given the chance to tell us why she got them, and that was her reason!

@bricket: Agreed!

OMFG.

@girlzilla: Should we just assume Jessica is incapable of seeing the bigger picture just because she is white and privileged?

Fugly.

Brava. Very well said.

@guria25: That's true. And from the footage they showed, it didn't appear to be absolute squalid misery where they were filming. I've seen worse in the US. But it was shocking to Jessica, who appears to be completely unable to contextualize things outside her own experience.

@redallover: one who was protecting herself and her sister from a rapist?

@ratz: See my answer above. I wish the question had been asked. I suspect the answer would have been enlightening. Of course, it's easier to just respond as a white, privileged person and walk away saying "I never would do that!"

@reimoise: It's unclear to me what she does for a living, but favelas are generally not places where there are a great number of opportunities for women. In a society where women are valued primarily for their looks/youth, her only means of financial stability might be finding a man to care for her, sex work, or even…

I was really pissed at Jessica's "judgey face" in #4. Hello, rich white American privilege!