Yeah, I don't know about this. I'm not a black woman so I 100% admit I will never fully understand what it is like to be black in America. However, I LOVE Viola Davis and my favorite role of hers, and one of my fav roles just in general is "Aibie" in the Help (and Minnie because duh). Not because she's a maid but…

"9:00 Olivia is rocking her natural hair so you know she's feeling free and relaxed." ...from Jezebel's liveblog of season 4 premiere of scandal...just wanted to point that out.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I thought. The first one is definitely questionable. The Viola Davis tweet?

Somebody made a seemingly neutral comment about a tv character's hair and people are upset? I had no idea this was a thing, honestly, and it scares me that I didn't know, and that I could inadvertently offer insult to someone in ignorance. And someone sees an actor from a movie and links her to her memorable lines…

Really, we should just have Viola saying "Yeah, bitch!" on this show, and Aaron Paul can be her paralegal. I would watch the shit out of that.

Not sure where this would land in this "controversy". Shonda Rhimes wanted it on her voicemail. Lots of retweets, no complaints. Consider the source, yes. Like some others here, though, I think this was more about a memorable line than a stereotype.

I can't believe they quoted a line from her most famous film. Can you imagine if anyone said "Life is like a box of chocolates" about Tom Hanks?

Lol, what a bunch of dorks. Thanks for proving a point i made earlier: anti liberal humor is liable to get you fired from your job or to sully your reputation.

If "others" insist that something is offensive, the least they can do is provide basic context as to why. I shouldn't have to research why you're offended by some off hand comment or a quote from a movie I've never seen.

I don't have much problem with either of the tweets, I probably would have made similar posts. As for Kerry's hair comment, it's what I thought too. And really we haven't seen Olivia Pope doing business without a certain look or demeanor. I'm sure sentiments have been made about white characters like this too. I'm not…

I watched Dead Poet Society as a kid and kept expecting Robin Williams to say "Nanoo nanoo", as I was only really familiar with his work as Mork. I didn't realize how racist I was.

But what is bullshit about it? And before you say "read my post" there is nothing in there that actually supports the fact that it is bullshit. It just supports the fact that you, Kelly Faircloth, don't care for it. That does not make it bullshit.

You, and everyone who refuses to believe that "an old white woman from Albany, Georgia" is capable of remorse, are the ones perpetuating the "Paula Deen is a Dirty White Racist" storyline. Let the woman rebuild her life and her career. No, she doesn't have a RIGHT to a cooking show. But this is her career and her…

Jezebel hired Kara Brown, so this problem is fixed now!

Oh, come on. It's OK for Jez to make money by any means necessary. It is not OK for a woman like Meghan Trainor to do the same.

I'm embarassed to say that in the years of hearing Jezebel clarify they are "not a feminist website" while reading dozens of articles here decrying the fact that women with a platform distance themselves from the term, the utter hypocrisy never occurred to me. Great point.

its because you all play the victim when its anything but.

I hate to be a snarktopus on a well done article like this, but... If Jezebel can deny that it is an explicitly feminist site (esp. When they use it as an excuse to do patently unfeminist things), then what right does this site have to bust others for doing the same??

Most people agree with parts of the feminist agenda - equal rights and equal opportunity. But feminism goes way beyond that - with a lot of anti-biology stuff that does not recognize any difference between men and women.

When did people become so self involved that they actually think that people give a flying fuck if they're offended or not?