Over 7 billion people in the world and that so called best friend couldn’t find someone who wasn’t Shania’s husband? That sounds like a tremendous amount of hostility and jealousy on the “friend’s” part, as well as the ultimate fuck you to Ms. Twain. Truly despicable to treat another person that way, let alone someone…

I’d say there are also different types of toxic people. It’s not always an overt thing of people aggressively criticizing you and putting you down. It can be subtle. I was once friends with someone who would invite me over to hang out and seemed to enjoy the company but then in almost every conversation disagree with…

fun fact, they just discovered a slave cemetery in the bronx that belonged to the family of this girl who bullied me in high school but i was also kinda friends with (long story) who self-righteously shat on anyone with souther ancestors because they were slave owners.

Yes. This. Of course people are going to try to get a documentarian or journalist to omit things that are embarrassing to them. It happened to me all the time when I was a newspaper reporter (including public officials saying DURING A TELEVISED PUBLIC MEETING “Don’t put that in your article.”). It’s the ethical duty…

The mistake we make when teaching or learning history is idea that there are clear “good” people and “Bad” people. People in the past made the same kinds of decisions with different cultural and socioeconomic factors in play. That’s why each generation has different motivating factors from the next and the previous.…

The whole debacle was completely unnecessary. They should have either refused his request or just not aired his episode.

If the show gets cancelled, it won’t be on Affleck but on Gates. Gates should have known better. It’s his show. He was aware of PBS’s editorial standards but proceeded to ignore them anyway.

I’ve had friendships fade out (mutually) and then there is one I had to fade out myself, because every time I thought it would get better, she would find another way to be rude or mean to me. While I considered confronting her about it, another friend asked me what I thought the result of that would be and would I be…

It really felt that way. The funny thing is it was only a few years ago and I can literally remember nothing else about this guy. Except my friend called him lens crafters because he had these stupid hipster glasses. That’s all I remember about him.

I don’t really take any art school THAT seriously. I think it’s a great place for community and learning technique but you can’t teach someone to be an artist beyond that. I know a lot of people with art degrees who in my (humble) opinion are not good artists. I think especially in photography for whatever reason.

While there isn’t any legal recourse that could come from this work it’s really against what appropriation is suppose to accomplish. Appropriation is a process that’s suppose to divert already established power dynamics, not reiterate them. It’s one thing for a young artist to lift images from magazines or corporate…

Dude, your’re doing an MFA. Cite your shit. You make other people doing MFA theses look bad.

It’s not set in stone, but typically if an image is recognizable (ie, a famous artists’ work, images out of popular culture, those Instagram pics), then the artist who is using the image is saying something about it rather than just including it to create their own image. So Andy Warhol’s images of celebrities or…

I think this speaks more to Yale and what is apparently the easiest MFA on the planet. The original image is decent but reminded me of something you would see promoting an 80s ensemble sitcom or a spread in Tiger Beat. The “transformative” version just sucks but apparently thats is what passes for masters level work…

Uhh, hmm, presumably the largest part of his photography exhibit ought to be, you know, photographs that he, like, took himself? And not, like, the way he scribbled over someone else’s photograph? Because if all it takes to hold a photography show is doodlings on someone else’s photo, I am about ready to cash in on…

He’s calling the damn thing “Cheeks”! I know thats not a reference to his doodles on it. He’s a photographer, and it’s a photography show- why is he repurpusing ANY photo as his own, let alone a photo that is already a piece of artistic work? And he’s a graduate of multiple prestigious art schools. I didn’t buy the “I…

It really is the type of statement an 18 yo who just took sociology 101 at university, after living her entire life in white suburbia. I can identify them, because I was one.

RIGHT??? “What is black? What are parents? How do we even know we’re awake? That life is not an illusion? To be? Or not to be? To eat the cookies and the pie? To sleep, to die, to cry? To type, too ripe?” Fucking incoherent lying sack of lies.

We, as a nation, should also admit that this continuing non-news might actually bring a lot of white and black people together on an issue rather than feeling divided. Overwhelming consensus: WTF

This girl is fuuucked. I went from thinking she really believed she was black, to being liar, to now I just don’t even know. My mind cannot process this.