Right? They’re movie villains.

I’m kind of (but not) amazed by the lack of editorial talent and sensitivity in some of these bigger-name publications. I’ve contributed to several and the experience was almost always the same: by the time the editors had botched my writing, skewered my points, and tailored the finished piece for the collective…

As far as I know they don’t, just racist street names. Right now statues are toppling all over the UK and Europe, from slave traders (I still can’t remember that Bristol dude’s name and am totally ok with that) to King Leopold.

It’s mind-boggling how some people are decrying this “erasure of history.” Um, no, there’s…

At least from what I’ve read in interviews with Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, neither have ever shat on it. They acknowledge it for being the thing that it was, but also acknowledge that it opened up numerous other, better doors. I would love to have a “regret” like Twilight from my late teens/early 20's...

Soooooo maybe it’s time Anna retired and handed the job over to someone who CAN elevate black creators and create space for more diverse representations of beauty/fashion/lifestyle? It’s not some unsolvable mystery, it’s clearly a matter of money and not wanting to piss off the white bluebloods.

Agreed that there needs to be permanent context that accompanies GWTW, as with any popular work of art/literature/entertainment that hasn’t aged up with the times. I’d also add the tiresome old “the book is better” because it absolutely contextualizes—for better and for worse—where the film glosses over or glamorizes.

But what nonsense is this? They mistook a raffle for a “you get a car! and you get a car!” giveaway, got their names added to a spam list instead, and now in the midst of a pandemic and historic protests are choosing to make it a problem, rather than a shitty misunderstanding that could be followed up by clicking the…

Wow. This is the most Karen thing I’ve read in, like, 20 minutes. It’s like all the Karens vs Reese Karenspoon.

Um, no about Natalie Portman. Read her statement. At first she didn’t get it, then she got it, and explained how/why she now gets it.

This. I have an acquaintance—and I use even that term lightly—who’s a fairly successful “mommy” influencer with book deals, sponsorships, all of it. Her target audience is twenty/thirty something affluent moms, and the content is predictably in line. She has two very young children with another one on the way (she…

Honest question: what makes the behavior listed above racist? She sounds like an all-over shitty person; as in, everyone gets to suffer her shittiness regardless of their race, gender, or acting role. Was it the wig comment, or referring to background actors as “cockroaches,” or not letting Snell sit at her table...?…

That’s a valid point, and one I try to remember when I read about celebrities and shit like this. They’re still human. But here’s the thing: they’re humans with a considerable leg-up as opposed to the rest of us. Olsen’s husband sounds like a POS in this instance, but she’s far from without resources, protection, or…

All of this. Which, in its own way, illustrates what happens when you start off privileged, continue to ride that wave of privilege w/o ever being called on it (which, aside from passive internet swiping, never seemed to really plague her?), and are thus “empowered” to craft a narrative around yourself that is,…

Boom. This.

Exactly. Her whole brand seems to be about getting trampled under the proverbial boot and liking it? You know, abuse but make it glam (?) She certainly never seemed to care about making some kind of empowering statement of it before or gaining entrance into the feminist acceptance club until her fans grew out of their…

Yeah, I also wonder with actors who made tons of money off a franchise or even one film then disappear in (seeming) dismay: you could write/direct/star in/ fund your films at that point, no? Money is freedom, creative and otherwise, so by god if you have it use it. 

I mean, he wasn’t a very good actor by a long shot. His disappearance isn’t all that much of a mystery, any more than, say, Megan Fox’s was. Even gorgeous actors eventually have to prove their chops, especially when those chops start showing their age or even prettier people come along who also have talent.

As…

Soooo...she keeps reiterating that she’s NOT a feminist, but is getting all pressed about being excluded from the club? Wow, you’d almost think she was somewhat oblivious to her own entitlement to having her cake, eating it, and oh-so-glamorously excreting it...

Am I wrong in suspecting Miss Lana is maybe a wee salty…

This is why I absolutely love Tim Gunn’s books—he is the absolute antithesis of the fashion world’s bullshit. He spills just as much tea but keeps it classy, from his open eye-roll disdain for Anna Wintour’s and Andre Leon Talley’s diva pretenses to families trying to push their trust fund brats into the biz and even…

I’ve read from various make-up artists who worked with her that she applied a special hormone cream that gave her a fairly thick peach fuzz beard, believing it gave her a luminous glow under studio lights. Why “EW?” Are we not allowed to have peach fuzz on our faces anymore, either? :-/

*squints at the ongoing list of…