So go be a star tv anchor. If it doesn’t require a...particular set of skills...then go be one and make tens of millions. 

This is not a question of fighting it in court. NBC are apparently paying for additional rights post-termination (confidentiality, non-compete, etc.). What’s curious is why they would pay that much for a non-compete given her ratings are low. Possibly, the confidentiality clause is more valuable...one wonders what…

There’s something else going on here. I work in this space. I am highly suspicious of the claim that NBC is willing to pay her that kind of money for a noncompete when her ratings were that low. 

Hey quick question. How come that Swedish girl doesn’t get to change her skin color and (obviously, despite what she’s saying) try to pass for black but Ariana Grande gets to never appear in real life showing the actual whiteness of her skin? Are we all pretending she’s not more or less fronting as vaguely ethnic? 

Wait a sec. There are lots of cultures that eat bugs. Doesn’t that mean an article premised on how disgusting it is, is....racist? I thought the running theory on Jez was that exoticizing and being disgusted by common cultural practices of different races was racist.

Yeah, this. Media - including Jez - have rewarded shallow culture. Why would she not encourage her kids to get into this money making machine? 

Is this really a question? The answer is - because society, including jezebel, has rewarded instagram culture to the tune of tens of billions of dollars. Why would she not encourage her kids to do the exact things that made her royalty?

Also, kudos for a polite internet argument. Not exactly a common sighting. 

Not picky at all. I meant to draw the distinction. Socialist economies, where some degree of private property is maintained, have traditionally retained fairly normal pre-socialist (in most of those countries, essentially feudal) marriage customs where they dump resources into new couples. There’s a tendency in…

Nah. Fiancée and I are going no gifts and everyone just said thanks.

None of these kids feel any pressure. Media have let Haley Baldwin, Jaden Smith and the Hadids get uberfamous. Literally nothing on earth is less stressful than being the child of a star in modern times - we give them instant lifelong income streams because Americans just replaced royalty with celebrity and called it…

In a purely communistic economy, where there is no ownership over any property - no property rights at all - then there would be nothing for a couple to own. But I don’t know of anyone who seriously thinks that kind of society is realistically achievable. Most socialist theories still assume some degree of private…

It would make pretty good sense to be uncomfortable with a dowry. I hear that. And gift registries for basic home goods is oddly passe - most people live together before marriage anyway. My fiancée and I are skipping that very step. But giving resources to both members of a couple is not a dowry. So, no issue.

Literally nothing capitalist about this - pouring resources into a new couple is something every society has done going back to the beginning of recorded history, and in many ways is something other mammals do. 

Here, here. 

This poster right here is having a good time pretending she never judges anyone or anything as being basic.

I came in to write exactly your first sentence. Slow clap. 

Incorrect. Because if we admitted that women are sexually attracted to men’s chests, we’d have to acknowledge that men are expected to show their chest all the time and it’s actually the degree to which we *hide* women’s chests that reveals misogyny. It’s perfectly socially acceptable for a woman to say among male and…

Why would they? Everyone is watching this to see Pine and his dick. If the movie were made with “Seamus McGreatActor” it might be better from some irrelevant artistic perspective, but the ladies want Pine, acting quality be damned.

From years 1 -28 of my life, without any money, the most extravagant purchase was a $350 couch that I bought at 22 and had a quasi-romantic relationship with thereafter.