Considering that the whole Kardashian/Jenner brand is based on co-opting blackness and making it more “fashionable” I’m gonna be mad dismissive of their personal feelings. It just seems fair.

Hmmmm... That is definitely part of it. But when I was 21, what people thought about me was VERY, VERY, VERY important to me. So take our normal 21 year old anxiety and amplify that by say 500% or so. Kinda sucks.

I get what you’re saying but I have a very liberal feminist daughter about her age and she is still learning her way in the world and figuring out how to approach sensitive topics.

I love how this story has become about that dumb little girl. She knew full well what she was getting into when she read the script and shot the commercial. She’s so clueless and tone deaf that it didn’t even occur to her the ad is beyond offensive and stupid. And then she totally doubled down on her stupidity by…

She has also been raised in a culture where critics are “haters” who you “shake off” rather than people you learn from.

Maybe it’s just because I’m used to working with people who are actually traumatized (people with PTSD, people who have had limbs blown off, people who have been POWs, people who have seen their buddies bleed out in front of them), but this Kendall thing is entirely overblown. She feels bad because she did something…

I’d play the world’s smallest violin for her sad, sad story but I’m busy. The rest of us plebs have work to do.

Let’s be honest... there is no fucking way she has enough insight into the way the real world works to have any perspective on how fucking ridiculous this ad was on almost any level. She was into it because it was about her... and that was it. Just like the people who love you because you love them.

No, a small bit of criticism is when your friends or co workers politely tell you that you fucked up or could have done something better. Having a twitterstorm rage at you, thats literally thousands of people unloading a bunch of verbal garbage over your head. In terms of scale of criticism, its hard to make it…

This. They are very much in this love bubble the media has helped them create.

she didn’t direct the episode. she’s just an actress (loosely defined, i know). i’m sure she was convinced that the message was a good one, but she can’t be responsible for its concept or execution.

Smarting. Yes. Traumatized? Come the FUCK on.

You bring up a great point...if we deploy cans of Pepsi to Syria disaster can be averted.

Right? Real activists are getting pepper sprayed, hit with night sticks, tasered, and hauled off to jail. And Pepsi tried to make a cheap buck off “tapping into the energy of the movement” in the most tone-deaf way possible. But you are the real victim here, Kendall. Go to Paris and try to recover, you poor thing.

I sure it doesn’t help that she’s probably surrounded by sycophants. It’s pretty likely that she thought she’d be canonized for her “activism”. To be fair, she’s young and this was more than mild criticism, however deserved.

Can you imagine the kind of pain that not even jetting off to Paris at a moments notice can solve???

I’ve seen people making fun of this on foreign news casts. Multi-continental condemnation isn’t a little bit of criticism. I’m not saying the commercial shouldn’t be condemned, or that she doesn’t need a reality reboot, because it clearly should and she clearly does, but I think anyone would be smarting pretty hard…

Eh, the reality is this whole clusterfuck will soon be forgotten and Kendall can go back to Kendalling and then the nuclear war will wipe out everything.

The entirety of her being was raised into building a brand around herself. Her only self worth is her brand and now it’s seemingly very publicly damaged. So of course she’s freaking instead of doing the smart thing and realzing where she went wrong and correcting her missteps. It’s how she was raised and understands…

I imagine that when you belong to the kind of shallow, narcissistic world that the Kardashian clan has built for themselves then the smallest bit of criticism must be really hard to take.