Ah! Okay, yes - understood now. My non-bleeding brain thanks you for spelling it out :)

So, I had to login, 21 hours after this comment was posted, to get a little clarity before my brain started to bleed.

Nope, nope, nope. I will not feel sorry for Taylor Swift here. The jab was soooo light as to really be more of a pat. Come on, dude.

*gasp* Dear Prudence/AV Club comment section crossover?! What are the odds!!

I feel like I make the same sappy comment every time an article about race shows up on the AV Club, but I'm always so happy and encouraged by how the AV Club commentariat respond to these kinds of articles. That is to say, they are spot on. I mentioned below how tiring it can be to have to constantly explain the…

@DackAttac:disqus - For what it's worth, as a Black woman, I don't think this sounds condescending at all. It sounds like a pretty accurate description of the situation, and it's heartening that you can see it this way - sometimes it's just…wearying to have to constantly be explaining this kind of thing to people, and…

I'm beginning to suspect it's just an excuse to get busy with the leading actress.

Agreed. Her behavior was appalling. And it backed her sister into a corner, so that she couldn't really do anything but give LD a pass, unless she wanted to drag the whole thing out in public. Ugh.

She wrote those passages in ways that sounded like molestation, even if her actions were not. She couldn't possibly have been unaware of how it sounded (and she must have had editors around who could have told her how it sounded), which makes a lot of people think it was done for attention (which is super icky).

Now, I'm not sure if I'm just being nit-picky because I dislike LD, but would it have killed her not to look like she was climbing on top of the subject of the documentary? Like, maybe he could be the focus, rather than her reincarnation of herself as his greatest work?

Her attitude, for me, has always seemed horribly, horribly grating. Just so very smug and entitled.

*CBS: the bad version of everything*

As a Black woman, I feel like I am on the wrong side of the statistical colour line, here (I LOVED the Lego Movie and Guardians, and did not seen Hunger Games, is what I'm saying). It's like I'm in Selma*!
*It is not even remotely like I'm in Selma. I am so sorry.

In fairness, I don't know that they're picking on her, necessarily - just showing how the (ridiculous) app works on celebrities.

"a dull, gray life."
I see it more as a dusky granite, myself.
:)

Totally, totally worth the read. http://nymag.com/daily/inte…

Geez. As so many have said, it's unsettling to me how emotional I am about this. I think it's precisely *because* of how humble and genuinely proud of his colleagues he's been that I've forgotten how far and how deep his reach has been. Stewart and the Daily Show had such a huge impact on political comedy, generally,…

I'm pretty sure ugly-crying will be a significant part of the experience. Blerrrrggg…

"No one ever used the phrase 'shake it off' before last summer.."

Oh my gosh, Grapist! You can't just ask people why they're white!