Hey Meghan, it’s possible for the culture to be toxic against women and for you to be an asshole. 

It’s like it makes them nervous that _they_ are drinking, like they need confirmation from everyone around them that it’s ok. It’s pretty sad really.

I have a better reaction: “I don’t drink.” If someone persists, “I don’t drink, asshole.” If they further persist I explain it to them: “It’s none of your business why I don’t drink, asshole.”

I’m similar. Like, I don’t “not drink”, but I drink very rarely. I hate being drunk, so I treat alcohol like just another beverage. People will be so insistant that I have a beer or whatever, when I just want my fucking iced tea. They’ll usually be all like “But I KNOW you drink!” which is like, cool, but I don’t want…

Someone fluent in both commented elsewhere that Mandarin often requires two words or twice as many syllables for the English language’s one. She as interpreting almost verbatim, and was nearing the end of the sentence when Ellen interrupted. She was doing fine before, and mostly got flustered when Ellen interjected.

erh I think Ellen was pretty unprofessional here, the young lady seemed nervous and the work she is doing in that moment is incredibly difficult. Ellen could have handled that moment with a little more grace and patience. It read to me that Ellen was uncomfortable that she could not control the pace of the interview…

Interpretation is hard in all forms, not to mention live interpretation which requires on the spot translating contexts, culture, situations then the language. Not to mention this is an adult talking to a kid, which in many languages, has embedded within it a variety of nuances regarding register, vocabulary, and even…

I’ve never been so sure that Ellen may be a sociopath. 

She would routinely do interviews with Jet and Ebony talking about being black. She talked about it all the time. 

So because you don’t think she was doing a good job, she deserved to be ridiculed and embarrassed on TV?

That was uncomfortable. Yikes.

She needs to fucking go!

She said her dad was black on Oprah when she was just starting out though. How is that cultivating a racially ambiguous image?

Yeah I definitely feel bad for Taylor here. I’ve become a late fan of hers. I can’t imagine having my dating history as tabloid fodder, then doing shows like this that I am not asked about my work that I am proud of, but instead am pressured to reveal personal details about myself.

It says a hell of a lot more about Ellen, doesn’t it? That little bit of her probably incomprehensibly unpleasant actual self slips into her interviews a lot, it seems. 

Not to mention when they’re on camera, they’re working. It’s inappropriate in so many ways.

Semi-relatedly, somebody showed me a clip of Ellen interviewing Taylor Swift, and regardless of how you feel about Taylor...holy shit is this uncomfortable. Ellen just ignores her obvious discomfort and plows on with the “hilarious bit”:

Pressuring someone to drink alcohol is ~never, ever~ funny or okay. There are SO MANY reasons people can’t drink, whether its addiction, religion, pregnancy, health issues, medication, or any other of a vast array of morals or mental/physical health concerns. Whichever of those things it is, it’s absolutely none of…

Ellen has a weird habit of pushing alcohol on people. I saw a Chris Pratt interview where they talked about his weight loss and action hero transformation and then she presented him with a whole tray of Fireball shots. She insisted he have some when he explicitly said he didn’t really drink it anymore, and refused to…

I hate when parents let their kid off the leash.