After looking this kid up (again), I’m even more enraged by his sentence.

I loved how the head of social media et al. at Harper’s Bazaar went out of her way to clarify that Violet doesn’t work for them.

Every time I read stories like this, it reinforces the veracity of “twitter is for twits.”

Kenya Barris rightfully got called out for this by ONTD. His comments are inflammatory and he shows his entire ass.

Just wait until you see his new show Familiar-ish about a TV showrunner who only has one good idea.

Does anyone lend any credibility to any of the multitude of awards shows where rich and famous people pat themselves on the back for being rich and famous in 2019 anyways?

I think a lot of the criticism about it was that it was taking the Adam Carolla view that things in this country are fractious because we aren’t listening enough to the silent majority of angry white males...but those angry white males are angry not out of disenfranchisement, but because they aren’t being unfairly…

What about investment groups coming in and destroying beloved websites?

Business Insider announced that shares in Peloton fell 9% in a single day following response to the ad, erasing $942 million in market value. The shares have started to slowly rebound, but the audience response to the ad has made investing in the company suddenly seem risky, and a perceived volatile stock is not good…

One year Spanx sent me a “gift giving guide.” They seriously wanted me to give the women in my life GIRDLES for Christmas. Happy holidays, wide load.

I haven’t seen the commercial you’re talking about, but attractive people in commercials are a fairly standard aspirational marketing tactic. You put good looking people in an ad because society associates beauty with happiness, so the viewer subconsciously thinks “That good looking person looks so happy using that…

Sorry, but no. I’m a professional writer and marketer (and former English teacher) and it’s my job to analyze things like advertisements for consumer penetration. The first time I saw this ad while watching TV, before any articles were written, it struck me as not achieving the message the makers were trying for.…

I work in Marketing—you don’t casually throw a kid into something.

There’s a very deliberate reason why the commercial includes that moment when she breathlessly says, “They said my name!” Just like keto or crossfit or any other big fitness fad, this thing is sold on identity and belonging. You Are Peloton.

Another thing I love about this commercial is how the woman has pretty much a perfect body at the beginning of the thing. It would have made more sense if there was a Playboy centerfold taped to the wall in front of her on the bike with a note from her husband saying “LOOK LIKE THIS IN A WEEK OR IM DIVORCING YOU”

This “my kids were raised not to deal with people based on how they look” sounds dangerously close to whitewashing and “not seeing color.” My mixed-race kids know that you cannot understand them if you do not understand their background and culture and you can’t do that if you ignore it and just pretend they’re white…

Irrelevant AND racist! 

Pulled out because yes.

And biracial people who present as anything other than white will learn soon enough what America thinks about people of color. They need the tools to deal with that.

No. This is the absolutely wrong take. A generation of “I don’t see color” has led to a generation of people ignoring the struggles of their neighbors caused by racism and racial bias. Yes, we are all human, but people have better or worse life experiences, and we have to acknowledge it.