Well, I should add that I’m really not upset or even offended by Vergara or her roles. She seems like a really nice person and is obviously very talented. I think her choice to embrace a style that would read as “other but familiarly other” to US audiences was pragmatic and justifiable. She isn’t a casting director. I…

Vergara has stated in multiple interviews that she changed her style to read as more Latina in the US in order to make herself more digestible/marketable. (White Latinas have that luxury.) That’s what I’m talking about. And I’ve seen tons of photos of Vergara from her modeling days. She is stylized in a lot of…

I know that Sofia Vergara is Latina. My point was that even if the role calls for a more sexualized actress to fill it, it is STILL most likely to be filled by a white person. White Latinas still get almost all the roles that exist for Latinas in Hollywood. And when that happens Hollywood usually goes for a woman who…

I don’t know what you mean.

If you haven’t heard about any of this, then honestly, you’re not super educated about feminism. Gloria freaking Steinem was anti-trans and anti-kink at the height of her power, and so was the vast majority of the rest of the second wave. Adrienne Rich, the most famous lesbian in feminist theory, was anti-PIV,…

I’d also point out that even Sofia Vergara, who Jezebel chose to feature in the photo for this article, is white. She is Colombian but she has dramatically altered her appearance in a way that appeals to people in the US who are looking for a “saucy latina.”

And what happens when roles calling for non-sexualized characters of color DO crop up?

I don’t find her very attractive either. I think it’s her slight protruding chin and asymmetry. Something just seems off.

I dunno, some pretty questionable views still fall under the broad umbrella of feminism (anti-trans, anti-BDSM, anti-PIV). Probably useful to have some labels.

For the same reasons, a male celeb standing on a huge soapbox with a ginormous bullhorn shading his ex gf who never said a bad thing about him publicly would have certainly provoked your unbridled hatred.

If you claim to be single for a year, you’re definitely shading your last bf. This guy is not responsible for Spears fucking up her love life in the past, is he?

i agree. it’s usually done by white people no matter their sexuality and that ,in and of itself, is the problem. it’s like they’re trying to appropriate our oppression for themselves. “see,black people aren’t the only ones who are oppressed!” ad nauseam. i’m a queer (pansexual) black person myself and i’m not…

I’m the only one on here who’s not afraid to say, gays constantly comparing their “persecution” to slavery is not cool. I wish she didn’t say that part. You can legally marry your partner. Stop bitching and suing vendors who don’t want to service your wedding ceremony. Some old woman in rural Indiana refusing to make…

Considering I’ve been talking about the pleasure I’VE been getting from these stories, it’s more that people misunderstood and thought I was writing about Jezebel in general.

I don’t care what other people are calling it.

Oh, but I DEALT with your response.

Take your tone-policing and shove it. You don’t like my attitude? Tough titty.

right?

that’s part of running for president, man. you have to put together plans to address these issues, no matter how unlikely.