It sounds like you are unaware of the millions of dollars she has donated to various causes, much of it quietly and without press. Things like millions donated to a drug rehab center and homeless people in Houston. And you just want an excuse to bash this woman no matter what she does—calling her trash FOR GIVING…

The fact that this artist is giving scholarships for young artists not only makes sense, it in no way takes away from anyone or anything else concerned with women in STEM. STEM programs and scholarships are important for women. Arts programs and scholarships are also important for women.

I’m glad you wrote this so I can hopefully have the opportunity to help us identify the source of the disdain you and others have for this gift she is providing these students. Your use of the term ‘over-heralded’ is key here. I’m paraphrasing, but truly attempting to keep your language in context, so please tell me…

If Beyoncé died and donated her organs there would be tsk tsk-ers popping up to chide her for trying to use other people’s bodies to quench her egomaniacal thirst for more life. Or so her ghost could bask in the praise.

Exactly. This is the very first and the only scholarship in existence on earth and entirely unique in its limitations on institutions.

I legitimately can’t stand Taylor Swift, but if I saw a similar bit of hers I’d grudgingly think “that’s nice” and keep it moving. The unwillingness to examine why this powerful need to detract from Beyonce’s work and her fans’ joy is telling.

Does the Cracker Institue for Fuckshit pay you every time you use the phrase “praise her work”, an obtuse framing that suits your own purpose (which you think is to righteously fight against the veneration of a pop star but is actually to disguise your disdain for a black woman doing objectively good/impressive…

Next year she should ask applicants to write about misogynoir, apparently.

Hahahahaha I wondered how the “All Beyonce does is shake her ass” crowd would find a way to hate on this.

Nah. Not the first time. Why would you even postulate that if you have no knowledge of their products?

As opposed to the scenario you pulled out of your ashy ass? Again you create these idiotic strawmen to pull down. No one is saying that they can’t have white women in the commercials or sell to them. But the message that Black women’s money is okay but their image to sell the product you sell to them is not acceptable…

Nobody is telling them that they can’t sell to white women. I don’t even know where you’re getting that idea.

I think part of the issue with the commercials is that while adding white women (not a bad thing) they remove darker-skinned, kinky-haired black women (definitely a bad thing). Shea Moisture started out as black-owned company offering products that reportedly worked on all types of curly, kinky hair. Their print ads…

There is so much fucking misogynoir in these comments, I wanna puke.

I find it weird, if they want white women with curly hair to know that we can use the product, that they used straight-haired white women in the advertisement. If they want to expand into DevaCurl’s market, I am baffled by this commercial from that standpoint as well.

Did you play that first video up top? Because the commerical starts out with the white woman with straight blonde hair.

You don’t really need to make a commercial to show white people they’re “allowed” to use something. Trust me. The assumption is already there.

The bullshit I saw on Twitter yesterday saying that Joy was the reason that old man died made my stomach turn. Both men and women took turns calling her out, some even going as far to say where she worked.

Well I’m pretty sure fetuses can’t use sign language or another form of communication either...

Wait that’s not where gas comes from during pregnancy??