The last time I was on FB, it was a fight with someone progressive who said that as an immigrant, Melania was changing the narratives about immigrants and the idea that the first lady should work for the country for free. As far as I can tell, she pushed other immigrants in front of the bus at the first opportunity.…

Paint “Rape happens everywhere” on the dumpster and put it back. Once a year, a brigade of feminist painters should put X’s on every spot on campus were an assault took place.

Reading your examples, it occurred to me that the other problem I had with her thought exercise is how self-serving it is. I think it is not healthy to let artists think that their art ameliorates the real world damage they might do. I don’t care if Hitler (or Bush for that matter) created unsung Picassos, that…

I don’t think Erykah explained herself well. From what I read about her apology was that she was trying to show compassion to people and used a bad example.

Because sadly the Afflecks and Marky Mark are proudly and prominently associated with Boston and are douches.

Pretty sure it was “White people. Jesus”

Because it tends to be disingenuous or intellectually dishonest, especially when its something that hits people close to home. One can disagree with what you label “the circle jerk” (another phrase that makes me crazy), have reasons for that disagreement and own it. OR one can lay off the actual stakes on the “devil,”…

I get that this works for you in dealing with living people. What exactly is the value of “Hitler was a good painter” thought exercise?

YEASSS. Saw it in real time and when tweeted the apology WITH A PICTURE, that gif was me.

herself.

I only caught the “we see you MK” segment, which was great. I didn’t realize we had forgiven Kelly for Black Santa and defending the Po-pos for brutalizing a 14 year old black girl, but then again I miss a lot of the Black People Meetings.

Not a law firm, but in my first job, our salaries were “published” in a binder (back in the olden days) that we could ask to see at anytime. Usually you looked at it alone in an HR office— until we got a “feminist” boss who made us look at it in her office while she glared at you. When word got out about what she was…

Sorry, I actually was responding to the wrong person. Mo’Nique can be all over the place— I thought she wasn’t getting offers because of Lee Daniels and Oprah? But she isn’t wrong to lay out the math.

Children in the South are still regularly taken to plantations for school trips with no mention of actual slavery, so, veracity of the note aside, I have no problem believing kids are still taught this. If Indian genocide was common knowledge, why would people still be getting mad about removing some of his statues?

Let’s not forget that the Clotilde story was mostly considered a pulp fiction myth until a black woman scholar (building on Hurston) did the hard work of verifying its actual existence.

This isn’t just about Mo’nique, but about studios’ perceptions of black audiences (namely that we don’t buy shit), so acts have to “crossover” to be seen as worth significant money-despite the documented success of material driven by white audiences. Hacky Schumer got that money because studios finally realized white…

Tell that to my goddamn neighbors. We’ve had several conversations because I can’t sleep with pot smoke reeking in my bedroom (and the hallway). In the last one I begged them to switch to edibles.

I’m late on that memo thing, but feel compelled to point out this comedy gold, right here:

MK would look like more like she gave a shit about veterans if she had actually asked Fonda about it when interviewing her rather than bringing it up in an endless stream of petty.

Like White People Problems and Man Colds.