What is the truth of what’s really going on here? The author gamed the system. Good on him.

But isn’t this only true if you know not only the person’s identity but have an understanding of that person’s life experience. For instance, a white person grow up in section 8 housing, writes a narrative about how structural inequality is related to the struggles of low income communities. Jaden Smith also writes a…

“Context matters” is true but banal. I don’t see how the contextual question of the author’s ethnic identity bears on the quality or meaning of *this* poem.

There’s no defending the poet here. But I find it hard to understand the responses to the poem itself. You’re suggesting the poem would have been meaningful had it been by a real Yi-Fen Chou, but isn’t because it’s by someone else? I wonder what meaning an authentic Chinese-American author would confer upon it. It’s…

When you put it that way, he should actually be insulted they accepted it. “It’s not good enough for a white guy, but it’s good enough for an Asian guy. We’ll take it.”

I’m not sure I agree with his reasoning either, but his strategy worked. He got published. And we’re discussing the poem. And we’re discussing the political implications of his name. Which, if you believe his sincerity, was the whole point. And these discussions are kind of the whole point of getting published.

Yes yes. A high school football game got out of control because two players got shitty, so the entire state should leave the union. What a rational person you are.

Jezebel feminists aren’t as bright as you would like them to be.

This is Jezebel. Everything is reducible to “fuck white guys.”

“I always kind of picture MRA’s as overstuffed, marshmallow-y looking dudes who haven’t ever even really held a conversation with an actual woman”

he needs to shut up.

Umm, are you kidding me right now? This IS assault. There’s nothing to be overly dramatic about. There’s nothing to be any dramatic about. Plain and simple, it’s assault. Any violent play in football that is not an established part of the game is assault. You swing a baseball bat at someone during a baseball game, and…

Not to be over dramatic, but that is nothing short of assault.