“Did the show’s producers purposefully place Garrett on the show to cause racial drama?”

Brings to mind the episode of 40 Rock where Liz (who thought she was bullied by everyone in high school) finds out everyone else thought SHE was the bully. (And I think I maybe remember Tina Fey describing this happening in her real life too in her book?)

Pretending bullying is black and white, and that the world can be sliced into “bullies” and “the bullied”, is always a bit daft.

I keep feeling the need to edit your pictures:

“This critique (eta: not your comment but Jason Johnson’s take) just seems like an attempt at being woker than thou. “Oh that show you’re all going crazy over, well guess what? It’s problematic.”

the ocean is fucked up

Congratulations, grads. You managed to take one of the more boring experiences of life (sitting and listening to people dispense mindless platitudes about life) and turn it into an exciting event filled with drama and tension. And you got to make Betsy DeVos appear deeply uncomfortable. You kids are awesome, and…

Imagine being so clueless that you think this is a cute little story and not incredibly shitty & fucked up.

Ivanka, dear....what a precious story. My, my...the obstacles you’ve overcome. You so connect with the struggles of women across the globe. Now, come sit on Daddy’s lap....and bring the ketchup.

This is the anecdote of a a vapid over privileged white women success story.

And who do we think had to MAKE the lemonade? I’m betting it wasn’t the grifter princess...

“As good fortune would have it, we had a bodyguard that summer,” she writes. They persuaded their bodyguard to buy lemonade, and then their driver, and then the maids, who “dug deep for their spare change.” The lesson, she says, is that the kids “made the best of a bad situation.”

I'm one of those unicorns who has had what I would consider a pretty large number of partners and very few regrets, I guess. I regret a few of them because things didn't work out as I'd planned but that was usually a situation of me not being right for a person I was in a relationship with. I rarely regret a one…

Okay. I swear I really wasn't going to add to the pile-on, but this irked me too much. The reason you received such a strong, negative response is because your "experience" through your "lens" is SEXIST. And if your dude-friends and lady-friends agree with your point of view and laugh at the understandably upset…

I don't think the problem is that most of your friends are men...I think the article is just pointing out that you shouldn't be wearing that fact like a badge of honor. I think the implication is that if you brag about not having female friends, you are somehow saying you are better than most women and "not like…

There is nothing wrong or "mean-girlish" about women saying "hey, no, we're not all shallow people who only care about handbags and who are less mature than men." What person isn't going to stand up to being stereotyped in obviously less than flattering ways? A woman who truly believe that crap has some serious…

I didn't read the other replies before commenting, but I thought that your comment was pretty illuminating. You seem to have a lot of generalizations about other women that aren't exactly positive. I don't think you're "letting down all of womankind," but rather was a bit offended, I'll admit, at the generalization.…

Meh. I play sports. I watch a lot of sports. I like talking about sports. I can drink most dudes into oblivion. I still have a ton of female friends. Yes, sometimes they want to talk about shopping or their diet or their shoes with me, and I'll listen politely and sometimes even have an opinion. But for the most part,…

Once again, I couldn't care less that she's friends with mostly men. 90% of my friends are male, too. Male friends are awesome! I have problems with the antiquated stereotypes from MadPiglet. I also take issue with the fact that she places herself above other women for having her own set of interests. Again, this is…

"I don't want to sit around and talk about my feeeeeeeelings, because I am a grown adult and am perfectly able to handle my shit"