I mean, is accepting whatever girl is white enough, thin enough, and rich enough to have all of the designer clothes and exotic vacation pics required to become instafamous really much better? Or is it better at all? They aren’t taking the beautiful asian, black, latina, native, etc IG models either. Just the same old…

It seems like a lot of celebs pose for these magazines specifically because they are pregnant, though. If these were non-celebrities, then I would agree. But in this case, these women have other chances to be featured for other reasons (and often are), and yet tend to choose to be photographed pregnant just to show…

Kim’s ass looks just like Nicki’s... bad. Chyna’s is definitely much worse than both.

I’ve known of Teyana since her sweet 16, but I agree with you. She’s very talented (great singer & even better dancer), but she hasn’t done very much. For the past decade she’s pretty much been a socialite in black media. She had some music back around sweet 16 days (as you saw on wikipedia), and then she recently…

It is and has been a thing. I’m genuinely surprised that people here don’t know it? The eminem song that it comes from came out in 2000. I’ve heard it commonly used (sometimes negatively) to describe super fans for yeaaaaars. But then again, I was also literally a child when that song came out. So maybe it’s only been…

It definitely didn’t pop up this year. It’s been around and been used plenty (maybe not in your spheres, but it’s certainly common) since the eminem song came out in 2000.

Rihanna’s been around for about a decade at this point. And she’s had lots of hit songs & big videos, so I’m not mad at her getting the Video Vanguard award. They give it to someone every year and if it wasn’t her, it would have been someone else who was either newer or just as old as her in the industry. I’m not mad…

This is exactly how I feel about this issue. It seems like everyone on twitter, tumblr, etc. is an expert in social justice. Everyone has the perfect “how to be progressive” manual, and if you don’t follow theirs then you are hateful, ignorant, and ALL of the bad things! Even when the views you are expressing clearly…

I usually did 800s and up when I ran in high school, but I did do 400s a few times and that shit sucks. It’s short enough that you can’t really “relax” or find any sort of race pace, but long enough that you can’t just flat out sprint the whole thing without dying.

McKayla Maroney recently gave an interview on her journey through the 2012 Olympics and to leaving gymnastics. She was very honest and it does sound like the coaches are a bit... abusive at times, without necessarily intending to be. She talks quite a bit about how she was dealing with injuries that she could feel…

I sent this to the other commenter in this thread, but I ran track in highschool and I’m fairly sure that the sensors which measure their start and stop time are on the back of their nametag. So, the rule very well could just be reinforcing the equipment placement.

I only ran in highschool but, if this is anything like that (and this rule makes me think it is), then the sensors that measure their times, when they start, & when they finish are on the back of their nametags... on their torso. So that’s also probably why. Otherwise, you very well could have cases where the person…

My parents were like that too. And I’ve also become sort of numb to that kind of behavior because of it. But, maybe oddly, it hasn’t caused me to act that way myself. I’ve gone the complete opposite route and hardly anything can really phase me which, as you said, can also be a problem. It’s like my fear response when…

Hmm, that’s a good point too. Now that I’m thinking about it more, in a way just wearing the products can still help that person since someone could like whatever you are wearing and look it up or ask you about it.

So, I totally support boycotting racists but this is just something I think about whenever the topic of boycotting comes up:

Light outside of the visible spectrum can’t escape from the event horizon of a black hole either. Nothing can, by definition.

Ummm... you all are going on about appropriation of big butts (which, I agree is not possible), but the article really mostly was about the first half of the line and the juxtaposition between the beatiful “LA face,” which the writer took to mean white, and “Oakland booty” which the writer took to refer to black…

That’s a great idea. I work in my schools IT department and somehow everytime they replace the pens on our desk they all gradually disappear... all but the red ones.

I’d much rather they go costume than be so boring all the time. And honestly , it’s put on by “The Costume Institute” within the met, so in that case costumes would REALLY be preferred.

I agree that dreads aren’t specific to any one culture, but a statue doesn’t prove that they wore dreads. Those could easily be regular braids.