Two inherent problems: figure skating is nearly always only one or two people in the ice, max, so it is hard to convey concepts like, oh, genocide. Second, plays, movies, novels, ballets, paintings, don’t usually have as an accepted practice that people inappropriately clap for technical moves, but rather are entirely…

I agree that Evgenia’s use of the real audio was a terrible idea. This does raise a question for me though: Is there something about skating that makes it inherently unsuitable for addressing serious real-world topics, more so than other types of art and performance? There are plays, movies, novels, ballets, and…

Also there remains the question about the vaginal trauma...this is so fucked up.

I’m still so mad about Abraham. He was one of my favorites.

Did they fucking miss the 15 year old in there? Bags of dicks.

If his victims were a bunch of white debutantes CRTV would be leading the charge to have Daniel face lethal injection. They’d play up his ethnicity and say the left is only defending him from the needle because he’s a POC. The nünazis would surround the jail, demanding the guards hand him over to be lynched.

But surely you understand that there’s a difference between understanding something intellectually and actually experiencing it? It’s like, I’ve worked in a daycare so I think I can imagine parenthood pretty well - but actually experiencing it is a whole different thing. Kristin Davies even says she ‘thought’ she got…

Did you understand how hard your twenties would be until you lived them? You can believe people all you want, but there is no replacement for living an experience.

Poor white trash here. I never doubted anyone who tried to tell me about racism but no, I didn’t and never will fully appreciate it. I wasn’t around black people as a kid. My parents are your average wasps. Insulated. Inexperienced. They perpetuated that experience for me as a kid, so I had a lot to learn about a lot…

I don’t she said that. She said that she understood before about white privilege, but that having racism affect her child added depth. It’s not like she went from oblivious to crusader.

You can believe your friend and feel for them and empathize but also be more affected when it’s your spouse or child. It doesn’t have to be either or.

Yeah, but doesn’t that apply to so many other things? Like poverty, disease, rape, tragedy. You don’t get it until it happens to you. That’s how humans learn. You don’t realize how devastating a cancer can be until it happens to someone in your family. Suddenly you want everyone to know the importance of early…

That’s how it fucking works. You can’t just tell someone to believe something and it magically happen. Stepping in different shoes makes the whole difference. I don’t see why she should be shamed for coming to that on her own terms.

Yup. I’m so over it. The cynicism and the easily offended crowd are fucking exhausting at this point. You can’t say anything anymore. Everything celebrities do and say is potentially problematic even when they don’t have bad intentions. What is a celebrity to do, if not be a voice for thousands of people in their same…

Except that according to the quote, she did know about and acknowledge her white privilege before. She is just saying that now it’s hitting home on a whole different level because it’s her child. This wasn’t a situation where she was blissfully, negligently ignorant before and she’s only deigning to care now because…

until you actually have a child, which is like your heart being outside you, and that heart happens to be in a brown body

Isn’t this what we want, though, white people to “get it”? In the end, if they can have empathy then things will change for the better.

What she said was great. This is just another example of how liberal/PC/SJW crap goes to far. I believe in all those things, but this, this goes to far. Jezebel, you are part of the problem.

Yeah the snark is unnecessary and that line in particular is flat out wrong. There’s no indication that it took that long for Davis to recognize her privilege; in fact, she specifically cites becoming a mother to a black daughter as what opened her eyes.

Right?? For a feminist site, the writers sure do like to take catty swipes at women.