I have been riding subway systems all over the world, and this has been my ultimate fear for the last twenty years. More than drowning (I can swim) and plane crashes (I pay attention to safety instructions EVERY time).

I just try to stand back as far as possible until the train makes a complete stop. Even if it means…

Then I lay on the platform. Like when I'm transferring at the 72nd street station from the 2/3 to the 1, I lay on the platform.

I wish I had something like this! I have one (or maybe two, no one knows who my dad’s dad is) Mohawk grandparent and a dad who is visibly and culturally native. I grew up on our trap line and lived fairly traditionally. I’m white as fuck while my sister is “vaguely ethnic-looking” and gets “are you part native/Asian…

As a mixed-race woman, his explanations for casting Allison Ng particularly drove me bonkers. Is he really trying to say there are ZERO beautiful hapa actresses in all of Hollywood (or hell, even in Hawai’i) who he could’ve cast for this movie? Or just that none of them are as $$$bankable$$$ as a generic-looking white…

Well, honestly, how is it Emma Stone’s fault? All she did was take a role she was offered. The casting people cast her, the director approved it....I mean, I think this is bullshit, but I’d also think it would be very weird if his response was “Hey don’t look at me, Emma Stone is the white chick.” Out of everyone in…

yeah what is this movie even about?

Emma Stone was chief among those who did tireless research, and if any part of her fine characterization has caused consternation and controversy, I am the one to blame.

Oh, good. Non-white were off-camera and behind the scenes, where they belong. Much better.

putting everything else aside, what the hell happened to cameron crowe?

OK. You don’t have to. Without doxxing myself, one of my relatives is a very prominent lawyer for one of the major fashion houses. I know my shit. Also, they would never say “Saint Laurent.” It’s Yves Saint Laurent or YSL only.

In fairness to the ASA decision, they address the photo and not the model as the issue. Yes, they talk about her ribs and legs, but they are cautious to address the concern of “the model’s pose and the particular lighting effect.” You are absolutely right that Jezebel inappropriately jumped to describing the model as…

It is referred to as YSL within the industry...

Wait—did you actually tag this story under “Anorexia”? You don’t know if Kiki Willems has anorexia. How is that in any way OK? You’re diagnosing people now at Jezebel? Can I expect to see all matter of mental illness tags soon?

but my god these are also human women in these pictures.

TBF, if you’re as hot as JL-D, you have until your 50s.

Yet for all this hand-wringing no one though to name the model, or ask her what she thought. Her name is Kiki Willems.

on the bright side, we all share jeans.

I see your point that lingerie on a magazine cover invites commentary. It’s just the amount and style of the commentary is eye rolling. My guess is that no one is going to wait around to talk about who she is as a person. After this will or won’t bang phase ends, my projection is that she will quickly be forgotten as…

god the rage over her winning that award at the espy’s last night (which i mean, lol, the espys) was the most beautiful thing i’ve ever had the pleasure to read on my facebook feed.

Once again Stewart is on point. All during the lead up to this the one thing i kept hearing over and over again was “Boy, he’s going to be an ugly woman.” As if the fact that she was finally going to be able to live how she was always meant to, that she was free of the burden of being in the wrong body. Nope, that…