To be fair, they did everything right.

WW are about to roll their eyes at me but I will say this shit till the cows come home.
That 20% less shit is WHITE WOMEN ONLY.

I’m sorry you still have to watch this show.

Me too. TLC did it right.

We are in a weird period of US history indeed. For 239 years, white people have had the market cornered on wealth, representation, lobbying, law enforcement, job placement, demographics, media (need I go on?).

we should just avoid victimising women who don’t want to be victimised, just because they happen to be celebrities. they deserve agency especially about stupid and harmful shit like this

And, of course, we don’t actually know if any of these women have survived domestic violence and not gone public with it. Imagine how painful it would be to see your face photoshopped with bruises if you were a survivor.

Kim was, is the thing. Her first marriage, to a guy she married at 19, was abusive. I don’t know if she’s publicly gone into the grisly details but she really shouldn’t have to.

Yeah, I have a problem with this because, first, I don’t think it’s okay to use images of real women to make a hypothetical shocking point. Being famous does not mean your photo is up for grabs; I don’t see this as being all that much different from photoshopping the women into sexual situations for purposes of porn.…

Sorry, I cannot get behind this. It does nothing to get the point across of domestic violence and how it affects women.

Eh, I feel like that’s even more exploitative. And if I were Rihanna, Janay Rice, etc., I’m not sure I would be at all comfortable with images of the darkest period of my life being used in an advertising campaign.

The pictures make me feel so awkward only because Kim or Miley haven’t been abused at least to my knowledge. Wouldn’t it be more affected if there was actual photos of women who have been abused? JUST AN IDEA HERE!

Oof. Another problem with domestic violence awareness like this is folks assume it looks like your face is all bruised and cut up. As one of my clients said, “I preferred the beatings. The bruises heal, but I still can’t get the words out of my head.”

Ex-boyfriend now, I hope?

Some people just lack empathy in general. My husband is a loving man but he definitely doesn’t have the ability to empathize when he thinks I’m being irrational no matter how clearly upset I am.

That place re-traumatized me after I visited their BDSM haunted house thinking everything was safe/consensual. I honestly couldn’t tell if a fellow visitor was sexually assaulted or not. It was that confusing a performance (they pulled one of the viewers from our crowd after stopping at each one of us and then…

I think it was on one of the pieces published yesterday about this, but at some point there was a totally bonkers comment thread vacillating between “make sure not to kink shame!” to “you need psychiatric help for your rape fantasy and you can’t possibly be a rape survivor” as if there was no in between. It was…

I love her but give her major side-eye for working with Woody Allen.

She is an amazing actress. And I’m ok with her being tired of having the same discussion over and over again.

The analogy is depressingly apropos, and not just for Hollywood. Everyone* is deeply concerned about the problem, and everyone talks endlessly about what needs to change, and almost nothing ever changes.