I worked at Colbert and can tell you that this is not true.

I think a core lack of understanding on behalf of Kang is that obesity in this country is heavily (haha) tied to socioeconomic status. Being healthy in this county is expensive. Knowing how to cook a well rounded meal and how to circuit train is something of a luxury to grow up knowing.
When you have little money and…

Only 4 years? Pshhhhh. Call me in 30 years.

Except another group rated the couple's attractiveness, not the respective partner.

I know. These women are fat. There is no way around it. Why are we pushing people to accept these bodies as "beautiful"?? They may be "real" "natural" and "normal" (sadly) but that does NOT mean we should push for this as a standard of normalcy. People take fat acceptance too far. We are fat enough as it is.

Well then you're stupid. A law by necessity needs to pick a definite threshold. This doesn't make the point picked mysterious or arbitrary.

Yes. The thing about children is, because they are children, you can tell them what they can and can't do, especially when it is for their own protection.

Yep! 15 year old's don't need to be manipulated by old men.

What if a 15 year old wants to drink or smoke cigarettes or drop out of school to do porn? There are plenty of things children want to do, and governmental bodies step in because they're children.

This was very articulate, and I agree with all of it. The satire simply would not have worked if Allen had avoided casting Black backup dancers.

I'm going to put aside the fact that three of the dancers in this video have white skin (I'm not sure of their ethnicity, and don't want to speculate based on their appearance).

I'm having trouble with this one. It seemed to me that the story of the video was, "Lily Allen's agent produces her video." He is showed directing her throughout the video, which, to me, showed how the problematic scenes of the background dancers were presented that way intentionally. Because that IS exactly how every…

The author of this post is a faux-journalist who fails to understand the point of the video (yes, I know that she claims to, but she really doesn't). Everyone else stating that this video reinforces stereotypes fails to understand the point of this video.

Umm, not like this comment isn't going to get lost or anything but frnakly I LOVED that video and I thought the WOC backup dancers perfectly illustrated the point Allen was trying to make with her lyrics.

And the sounds of her perfectly valid point are yet again drowned out by complaints it was not perfect. This just feels like Girls all over again. It seems to me that horrendous drivel gets ignored, like Britney's 'work bitch', and anything that is taking a step in the right direction gets stomped down. Yes, she…

I am not claiming to be an expert on what is racist and what is not. I'm just a white girl who has never had a disadvantage in her life because of the color of her skin. I acknowledge my white privilege and am not trying to say it does not exist. That being said, in my personal opinion, I don't believe that this video…

It's interesting that all the comments that disagree with this article are in the gray...

Okay, so if we were going to fix her video what would we do? Seriously, I am not being snarky, should have there been no dancers, all white dancers, male dancers? I just feel like all people do is complain and no one acutally has an realistic suggestions for how things should be done......

What about that one asian dancer, and that one white dancer? Does an asian woman count as a woman of color? Or is she just "white enough"? Is she appropriating black culture?

There's a fucking war going on right now and this is the battle you chose to fight?