In that case fuck Netflix 

That’s pretty damning. This lawsuit will go nowhere but hopefully the publicity will get embarrassing for Netflix.

That was not the year she was on the selection committee. 

Look into Tay Tay’s background: Her parents are smart saavy wealthy operators and business people. Her father and she planned and strategized her career from her pre-teen years forward. She signed with Big Machine precisely because of their industry connections and presence, and when I say “she signed”, I mean her…

It IS Wanda Sykes, though. Sykes claimed she got an offer even lower than Mo’Nique’s for a similar comedy special from Netflix. So that’s two black women that Netflix didn’t think deserved to get paid. 

Wanda Sykes DID have the same thing happen.

But there is no indication Nelson thinks “trash YA for boys” is “fine and dandy” but that “YA for girls is automatically shit not worth reading an affront to literature and reading at all.”  She certainly didn’t say any of that!

Having a google alert for yourself isn’t inherently wrong. But when having a google alert about yourself leads a person - in this case a best-selling author - to pick a fight picking a fight with a college student over a quote in a publication no one would otherwise know about, that is a bad thing.  It led her to…

but did the student ever say it was an issue with YA? I thought her issue was specifically about Sarah Dessens’ work, because she was familiar with it.

I agree with you but it’s pretty awful that it needed to be pointed out.

On the one hand, what the student said really was catty an uncalled for.

Yeah I'm on team neither because we don't need another rich person making us their personal army

Long-time reader, sporadic poster here. This Dirtbag reads like the Dirtbags of yore! I don’t know who half of these people are, but the depth of these write-ups is what I like to see! I also appreciate your tone in the Taylor Swift opener. That was a great explanation and showed empathy for her circumstances. Nicely…

That would have been fine as a reflection on the difficulty of being an artist and having to see negative critiques.

But including the quote was unnecessary because it just showed how very run-of-the-mill and not particularly mean or nasty the critique was and also gave plenty of content for her large fan base to…

Well, the point of a selection committee is to select things, which necessarily involves deliberately not selecting other things. I’m not sure what’s bullshit about joining a committee specifically to do the thing that committee does.

Ha! I meant everyone. Damn fumble fingers. What a great typo, though. Unintentionally bleak. 

Well, something can be both personal and criticism, but you left out a key part of her quote which was that she thought Dessen’s work was fine for teen girls but not for the particular program. So while she joined the committee specifically to keep them from selecting Dessen’s work, she did so because of her issues…

Yes.

She's really going to love everyone on Jezebel saying she's made an ass of herself. Lmao.

I think this is all unfair to the reality of interviewing, though. I regularly interview college kids for stuff I’m writing, and I cut out 90% of what they say. Not to be a meanie but because it doesn’t fit the scope of the article.