I don’t know who taught you that was polite, but that was textbook deliberate condescension.

I cannot speak for Jezebel here, but the article has a point.

I am not interested in rehabilitation unless I see that the person is truly sorry. I don’t think she was. These people never apologize until they have been fired from their jobs, ostracized from their friends and people who know them, lose their business, get kicked off instagram/facebook. I guarantee they would never…

What cracks me up about her interference the most is that it’s just chalk! Even if it weren’t his property, it would’ve washed away with 20 seconds of a garden hose. I hope she thinks it's worth it.  

Yeah, this is where I remind people that, as someone on the high-functioning end of the autism spectrum and depression, we need to stop putting racism in the “mentally-ill” bag. Nobody’s objecting to mental illness here. They’re objecting to Ms. Cooper’s racism. And while there can be overlap between racist beliefs…

Hun, she didn’t wrongly think she knew the owners. She was consciously lying as a flex to put a person of color in his place, never dreaming for a minute that she was speaking to the owner himself. 

Can we take a moment to talk about dog park Karen’s “apology.” She knew what she was doing. Her excuse that she didn’t makes me hate her more. She doubled down, in her apology she’s trying to make herself the victim again. She’s earned everything that has come her way. And I’m tired of them bringing out out the tired…

Screw doing some deep dive into her life, nobody cares about her life or even her specifically. Like the article says, she’s just one example of awful actions out of many.

Wow. I had never seen that Alexander video. It’s not even the accosting and the assumption that he doesn’t live there (which are awful), but the way she’s explaining to him how basic things like property ownership and protest work. This is exactly the way I talk to my three year-old when he wants to know why he can’t…

Oh, yeah, I also live in NYC and have been deeply skeptical of The Wing since it started, even though I work at a women’s college and absolutely understand the value of spaces reserved for not-men. The only people I ever saw talking about joining or visiting were white women or POC “exceptions” (i.e. they worked for a…

You have to consider who funds them and why they started. The Wing ... when I discovered it in 2017-ish (I live in New York and happen to have hyper awareness of all things that are “venture capital start ups”) seemed like white girl nonsense.

I’m REALLY concerned that Gelman thinks The Wing is “long overdue” for an “era of change” around racism. The Wing has existed for LESS THAN FOUR YEARS, how could they possibly be overdue for any kind of new era? I saw that and said “nope, not worth it, burn it all down” because clearly the foundation was bad to begin…

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You’re not the problem. You are whole, and perfect. But the phenomenon of ‘double consciousness’ described by DuBois is real, where we simultaneously see ourselves as whole/human, and at the same time as white culture sees us (threatening, less deserving, less human). And that becomes triple consciousness for women of…

My takeaway from all these Wing stories is that, male or female, exclusive clubs are just awful places for awful people.

If the book or movie “The Help” were to be turned into real life, The Wing would be what I imagine it would turn to.

My dad refused to work for white men. It pissed me off as a kid because it meant we were always broke.

I thought about them when everything started going down because it's not exactly a secret that they have been a safe space for white feminist women, as evidenced in this excellent piece. I actually follow an "influencer" that works/worked(?) at the London one. I never really knew what if any job she had & just figured…

Fair point. Seems like we live in an era of emboldened assholes who just like being dicks so they can point and yell “snowflake!”

You left out one reason: it makes you uncomfortable. I am pretty sure that there’s a ton of people flying/wearing Confederate flags simply because it rustles the jimmies of decent human beings (or that’s their intent, anyway), and they get off on that. This is of course in addition to the other reasons listed.