#BecauseWhitePeople:

It’s the SNL skit about the pitch meeting come to life.

Ironically, Corporate America may be the most effective weapon against the cronyism of the Trump administration. Their brand of soft fascism is infinitely more palatable than the real thing. Fewer calories, too.

“protest is the new brunch”

Not one person in that video voted.

Sometimes when I see ridiculous commercials, I try to imagine what that pitch meeting must have been like, and I feel like the phrase “protest is the new brunch” was uttered in this one.

It has and it will be. It will be made digestible for all. Twenty years from now people will be wearing Millenial Halloween costumes to have a good laugh about that long ago time of free love and popular uprising.

blonde kendall jenner looks like a pleasant morph of cara delevingne and vanessa hudgens.

The Gawkerverse has a really uncomfortable streak of building up and tearing down young (mostly white) famous women. I’ve always thought it disconcerting at the least, and overly woke posturing at the worst, all at the expense of real people where the punishment doesn’t really fit the alleged crime.

I had a very similar thought— “This whole interview reads like a 50th high-school reunion, where the bully finally sits down and speaks to the bullied girl, and admits he did something kinda crappy a long time ago, but we’re cool now, right?”

No, I’m pretty sure most of us knew well before then that it’s not OK to take/disseminate naked pictures without someone’s consent.

We’re private citizens, we’re just internet randos— we’re allowed to hate and love anyone we goddamn well want to, for any/ all/ no reasons. But when you drag your personal little 8th-grade-mean-girl grievances into the public arena under a big banner, and then proceed to make a meal of it for a couple years in a row,…

It’s similar to rape apologists. Like, “Sorry, I did this terrible, dehumanizing thing that affected you in ways I can’t even imagine, I’m sure you’ve thought about it a lot since I did it, but I’m just thinking about it for the first time right now, and realizing it was a bad thing to do. I’m so proud of how far I’ve…

Anne Hathaway seems so nice and harmless; why did people hate her? Did I miss her being mean to kids or flipping off paparazzi or something?

We definitely were aware it was wrong in the early 2000s when it was Britney Spears or Lindsey Lohan or Paris Hilton. I don’t believe for a minute that anyone just wasn’t aware that posting pictures of someone’s exposed genitals when they haven’t agreed to having the photo taken or shared is wrong. It doesn’t take an…

That was weird. I also found it strange that the author tries to justify (at least a little bit) posting the invasive photograph in 2012 by saying that we as a culture didn’t wake up to how horrible stuff like this was until 2014. Ummmm, what? No, I’m pretty sure most of us knew well before then that it’s not OK to…

“Anne Hathaway was under no obligation to talk to me—in fact, given her feelings about Jezebel, she had good reason not to”

Man, you guys owe this woman a 50-page apology. I don’t know why anybody hates her— someone didn’t like the sincerity level of a speech she gave and that’s why so many years of public abuse and loathing? Or something? But she sounds 10x smarter & more self-aware & more gracious than any writer here, in any event.

Rich - thank you for that post script. We are all constantly evolving hopefully for the better, though it may seem like the regressives shout loudest right now. Really appreciate your honesty and humility with this.

okay, NOW can we stop with the ‘well they needed a big name in the lead who just happened to be white to guarantee success’ excuse?