why they didn't just use a black model in the first place.
It's because it's totally dehumanizing. We usually use the term "female" to refer to animals, not human beings. It makes the fact of a person's femaleness more important that the fact of their humanity. It also lends a false air of objectivity and science to a lot of incredibly fucked-up ideas about how women…
Oh god, this reminds me of a time my friend and I got stoned and tried to learn a dance routine and when the neighbour underneath my apartment knocked on my door (presumably to tell us to stop fucking stomping) we both got the fear and hid behind the couch for about 15 minutes.
Anecdote time!
i am super excited about this version of annie. little black girls are always in need of positive images of themselves, and little girls of other colors need those images just as much to counter all the terrible things about there that show black girls as well...not girls at all. not to mention the incredible…
It's lame, but I partially judge celebrities based on their Twitter accounts. Kim has one of those accounts in which the celebrity actually talks about real stuff, interacts with people, makes jokes, posts random things, etc., while Thurston's account is one of those annoying promotion-only accounts that is obviously…
After many women saved my ass when I drank too much in college I have become the woman who puts drunk strangers in cabs. Ain't nobody gonna get raped on my watch, that's for sure.
this is like that episode of "What would you do" where they had a girl fake being drunk, and an actor who was going to fake trying to pick her up, to see if anyone would intervene, but they couldn't carry out the experiment, because someone not involved with the show would always try to pick her up before the actor…
I'm happy for Kendall. Putting aside the fact that already being famous means she won't have to deal with all the gross casting cast stuff that many young teen models have to in order to get their big break, Kendall is actually a really good model. She's gorgeous and modelesque and absolutely has the body for it. If…
Does 'happy' mean something different in French?
Pirate this woman's book to hate read?
Hello. Single male here. Marry me. Ignore this article, and say yes to the dress.
I find abortion politics fascinating. I think this is the start of a trend we're going to see in countries with declining and rapidly aging populations — when the population of a country needs to be curbed, abortion is a human right. When the population of a country is declining, abortion becomes immoral. Call me a…
She might become some sort of activist hippie as a way to rebel. Like Saffy on Ab Fab.
The two years I spent as an accidental gentrifier (moved to NYC, didn't know any better, just picked a nabe with cheap rent) were some of the most humbling years of my life. He's right. You can't go stomping around in your Privilege Boots(tm), squashing the culture and traditions of those who made the neighborhood a…
To be honest as a young black Brooklyn girl born and raised i'm still on the fence about gentrification . For me its not about the "white" people moving in, its really about what happens when they move in which shows you just how racist New York City can be. Literally, the minute a white person moves into a…
So glad once again that I moved from NYC to New Orleans. Life is essentially a bottomless brunch here.