I love this. I wish I wrote this. I wish I was brave enough to say this to people.

Please see many, many thoughtful and detailed comments in this thread and page as to why she shouldn't.

Again with the protection thing. Never claimed they needed to be protected. And of course she can co-opt whatever she wants, she's young, white, American, and presumably has the financial means to travel internationally. That doesn't mean she should.

Glad I'm not the only one wondering where the hell that's coming from.

I honestly haven't seen anyone argue that the Maasai need to be protected. I didn't argue that either. I'm certainly not assuming that I know anything about protecting this particular group of people. My reaction has been a big ol' eyeroll at this girl embodying the role of sainted white lady savior and selling it to…

As far as my choices go, they do not and have not involved inserting myself into an African tribe for a few weeks and trumpeting that I've paved the way for the local women to be warriors now. "Look at me! I saved the day!" Implying that I'm just jealous is the cop-out.

Yeah, because a privileged American white lady co-opting a culture she knows little to nothing about, then turning around and writing a book that glorifies herself as THE FIRST female Maasai warrior, is extreeeeemely helpful to the native women, I bet. I'm sure it doesn't reinforce the "entitled American asshole"…

Leave it to Oscar de la Renta to take this neon yellowy chartreuse trend I've been hating on and force me to like it. I am loving all of this.

Props for The Wire gif and being a fellow Tulsan. I grew up there but haven't lived there since I left for college. I love Tulsa and the positive changes I've seen over the years, but there is still a loooong way to go and I hate that every time it's in the news, it's for something awful like this.

None of us think you're anything special either, shitbird.

This was my thought too. If she's trying to fit into her pre-pregnancy jeans, her hips might have widened slightly and now she's getting a muffin top because they're tighter - not because she has any extra body fat. UGH. Shut it, Alba.

I'm totally serious! I was at the Syracuse zoo two weekends ago and a lady was telling her kid that the snow leopards were cheetahs, despite the big signs that said "SNOW LEOPARD".

Thank you! I love zoos, but I have to bite my tongue the whole time I'm there to refrain from correcting the folks telling their kids that a snow leopard is a cheetah or a gorilla is a monkey. Nope and nope.

Haha, you win! Red pandas actually ARE in the raccoon family.

The original article said "Researchers argue that the olinguito should be considered the smallest living member of the raccoon family, which includes other animals that make us go "awww" such as cats, dogs and meerkats." and my biology major head almost exploded. Because literally none of those things is in the…

Jesus, all these trolls coming out of the woodwork to judge the weight of a drawing or defend an anti-fat see-through yoga pant company - all I can think is how un-fun they are as IRL people. Doesn't the constant shit-talking and hating on basically everyone get exhausting?

Gee, you seem like a lot of fun.

1. Size 18 is not "unusual". The point is it's totally usual, and not catering to women that wear larger sizes than 12 (or really 8, according to former employees) is discriminating against many, many, many women.

I was about to post the same article. I feel the same way, and although I like quinoa, I haven't bought it since I read that.

Calm down, it's a reference to the show Breaking Bad.