OMG I HATE THIS. I once had to explain, very carefully, to a guy I was semi-involved with that “you’re the prettiest of all your friends” is not a compliment (and frankly not even true so there).

Yes, I guess that’s what the essay is getting at? That because JA is thin, White, and conventionally attractive she needs to “take a seat” and stop complainingabout how these standards of beauty are oppressive because she has essentially become one of the standards of beauty other women are held to.

And a hint of - if you’re a thin white pretty woman who has become famous in part for being a thin white pretty woman, you are part of the problem, and you aren’t really feeling shame for these tabloid picks, and your response is borne of your privilege, your blindness to your role in the creation of beauty standards,…

I guess because it’s late Friday afternoon but this essay confuses me...what’s the thesis statement? That women who are body-shamed shouldn’t be “clapping back”?

Is the “mistake” in this place showering in a place where some privacy is expected? Struggling to see who’s the mistake-making “good people” in this case...

Yeah, they do...but I suspect she’s just not a good person, period.

“Because I am new to Snapchat, I didn’t realize that not everyone has the same body type, metabolism, and exercise habits as I do, and also that not everyone gets paid to look like a model. I also was unaware that violating another person’s privacy, in an area of utmost privacy such as a locker room (where people are…

BUT HAS SHE VANQUISHED THE NUNS YET?