Autoplay videos make Jesus sad =/

Allessandra Stanley seems like a real piece of work. What exactly IS her relevance? If she is that out of touch, should she be opining on a national level?

I don't see this "intended" as a non-apology. I think this is more of a way of damning Stanley in the sense of "the road to hell is paved with good intentions." I read it as "You racist twit, you 'intended' something positive, but your racism got in the way."

This one doesn't bother me as much as the other "intended" apologies, because she follows it up by saying that it was delivered badly which is putting the onus back on Stanley and not on the people who were offended. I'm actually rather pleased with this apology.

The NYTimes has become a laughing stock. What happened to them? For most of my adult life, I couldn't wait to read it. I quoted it. I referenced it. It was my main source for news. In the last year or two, I seem to only read it when someone posts a link. It's kind of sad but I'm not even angry enough to read the…

Thanks for that - I particularly enjoyed this paragraph:

But I'll say this much: The readers and commentators are correct to protest this story.

Alessandra has been employed at NYT for years and this isn't the first time she's written a tone deaf article. If they're going to continue keeping her on their payroll after this, then I don't want to hear what anyone at NYT has to say. They're choosing white supremacy and publicity over dignity.

In my defense, I took my mother to see "How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days". Kate Hudson owes me at least $7. I'll collect the other $7 from McConnaughey.

because people will always have a different opinion of it when the victim is a woman of color versus when it's a white woman. It's relevant because Gabrielle is a Black woman and historically we've been stereotyped as being hypersexual jezebel. When nude photos of Gabrielle or Jill Scott get leaked they never seem to…

"... woman and children, specifically women of color, have been victimized, and the power over their own bodies taken from them."

To clarify, I'm not white but thanks.

so,woc of color don't know what white women go through concerning sexism? mainstream feminism consists of nothing but white women's narratives.

I just want to draw some quick attention to this line from Stanley's NYT piece (emphasis mine):

What? Characters on a show can have more than one aspect that defines them? But how can I understand a show with complex characters? It is almost like you are trying to get me to think POC are PEOPLE.

"Ms. Rhimes chose a performer who is older, darker-skinned and less classically beautiful than Ms. Washington, or for that matter Halle Berry."

She did. Never mind that the majority of supporting characters are related to Abbie in some way and not Ichabod. Never mind the fact that the show clearly starts from Abbie's point of view. Never mind that she's the more capable of the two characters (considering he's out of his time and often out of his depth). She's…

Lord. Does this woman even watch these shows?

The best thing about Shonda is that her characters, all of them, are so deeply human. Shonda isn't reinventing the black woman, she's showing them as they actually are, for the first time. Black women are complex and vulnerable. All women are. Shonda has done so much for…

Thanks for breaking this down since I was kind of too angry about it to think this critically. I think she also called Nicole Beharie, who is the lead on Sleepy Hollow, a sidekick. Seriously, fuck that noise.

This is ridiculous considering the character most like her by her own words is Christina Yang.