This.

I just re-read the whole piece and I am scratching my head even more as to why she felt compelled to waste everyone’s time when the gist of this piece is simply humblebrag about her dad and her family without even realizing the savior element tied to it. Her dad barely even talks about his work that saved, in part,…

I stopped reading at “At the same time that Santa Fe and Taos undergo a massive and perhaps irreversible gentrification process.” FFS, Taos is a goddamned ski resort and has been an artist colony since 1899. Georgia O’Keeffe moved to Santa Fe in 1984. Both these places were gentrified before this person was even born.…

Out there, on the internet somewhere, there’s a lengthy article written by a born and raised Brooklynite talking about their neighborhood being overrun with a scourge of bloggers from New Mexico.

It takes me weeks back in Brooklyn to recover.

It is entirely possible! And I am known for being overly optimistic. But FUCK if I don’t think he’s the man right now.

what makes us think they won’t take that simulated session into real life?

“ how can we ever expect men to stop treating women like objects if they won’t treat objects like women”

I understand where you’re coming from, but acting out consensual “taboo” sex acts does not mean you are going to act them out without consent, just ask anyone in the BDSM community. In any case, sex with a silicon non-sentient doll does not require consent, therefore, it is not rape.

“Xdolls conveys a degrading image of women.”

They eat all your burgers and hang out with loser stoner friends in a dirty van though.

“In my opinion, kids watch video games where they shoot each other and hit the reset button and they come back to life. It’s not like that in the real world,”

there’s ALWAYS someone who has to ruin it. Wonder why? And if this was the first time? And how they figured it was her?

Shameful.

I just think the whole thing is weird considering that jezebel, especially jezebel readers, are so hostile to the root. That even the root writers openly talk about it in articles.

Yeah, sure would’ve been nice to see this crossposted from The Root to Jezebel rather than vice versa, but I suppose the Jezzies were always going to be happier hosting the party at their house.

There is a distressingly high number of WOC and POC who will not be able to comment here because Jez has banned them, without explanation or warning. The entire JezeRoot series is so controversial with the commenters at least in part because so many people will not be able to participate in anything that is posted to…

Bela is the bomb

She’s saying that the campaign is great and she’s proud to be part of it. She goes on to say people should be upset about what they thought was overtly racist and should call it out, but in actuality the framing and context of the particular images changes the intended meaning.

She’s talking about the selectively-taken screenshots, not the full ad itself, which also features the white model changing into a brown (Middle Eastern?/Latina?) woman.