1. Brandy looks very pretty in this picture

Singing Jazz standards with an 80 year old is not “mainstream.”

You are gross, misogynistic, and completely uninformed about how language acquisition actually works.

Speaking several languages does not make anyone a “multilingual genius.”A good number of Europeans know at least 2 languages. Being multilingual is just a big deal to Anericans.

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Stop. Just stop. Your point is nonsensical.

I’m not understanding your argument. Yes, JA is thin, White, and conventionally attractive. And yes, she likely works hard to remain thin and conventionally attractive. So...? Her working out and maintaining a certain diet so that she can look a certain way is “contributing to a toxic culture”? I do the exact same…

Aside from existing and being thin and White, how has JA “willingly contributed to such toxic cultural trends”?

I hear ya but I think it would be incredibly uncomfortable and patronizing if the Jennifer Aniston’s and JLaw’s of the world started speaking up for plus-size Black actresses like the ones you mentioned. And I say that as a dark-skinned Black woman. I do not need, nor do I want, White women to “take up my cause,”…

JA hasn’t struggled about finding a designer dress but she has struggled with years of tabloids speculating about the status of her uterus and mocking her for being the “loser” in that whole “lover’s triangle” she found herself in when her hubby kicked her to the curb publicly for his co-star.

That’s just a by-product of fame though. A lot more people care what a celebrity tweets than the tweets of an “average” person.

I don’t really see a contradiction to railing against standards that you benefit from. For instance, plenty of my light-skinned Black female friends rail against colorism (by, for example, interjecting when their Black male friends or brothers talk about certain Black women who are “too dark” to date) and I don’t find…

Yes, I guess that’s what the essay is getting at? That because JA is thin, White, and conventionally attractive she needs to “take a seat” and stop complainingabout how these standards of beauty are oppressive because she has essentially become one of the standards of beauty other women are held to.

I guess because it’s late Friday afternoon but this essay confuses me...what’s the thesis statement? That women who are body-shamed shouldn’t be “clapping back”?

MIA is Sri Lankan though. She’s first generation.

Well, she’s not an actress, primarily. That seems to be the biggest difference from the 2 actresses you name.

Your comment doesn't make much sense 😨

HAHAHAHAHAHA. No, TayTay is MUCH more famous than Adam Wiles.

Sigh.

She kinda is the biggest star in the world. Certainly one of the richest and most successful.