Insensitive, yes - but still a sound critique: a famous person’s platform used to tout a potentially dangerous fast on a fan base that’s likelier to not know any better can still be fatal. Her not being black/not trying to understand some of the cultural aspects that come with our bodies does sting like hell, yes. But…

The only thing I’m sad about is Myles Garrett having to fake like he’s sorry for doing exactly what is supposed to happen when a weasel like Rudolph who clearly started and escalated the fight after he got legally taken down in a very violent manner by Myles Garrett, runs up to get duns up son son...This is the 2019…

i wish we could step back and not always claim respectability politics especially when we know (or should know) there is a lot of toxicity in a lot of the ratchet/entertainment we consume. theres a level of self destruction and self hate in a lot of the ratchet that we seem way too willing to defend. im not gonna…

Charlemagne gave Tomato Lasagna a platform and defended her as his “friend”. He can sit all the way down. Also, hit dogs tend to holler lol.

Lakeith reminds me of one of them... Free-thinking... Free-spirit, nonconformist black individuals that won’t extend that ‘free-thinking and free spirit’ label to fellow black men and women. You know the kind that will shed that ‘Glory, one tear’ as they down a Pabst Blue Ribbon, after one of their non-melanin friends…

Charlamange slow dances to Old Town Road.

He’s not wrong. 

Most of those websites are garbage, but Stanfield is tiresome, too. Most of those sites are trash simply because they are trash, not really because they don’t conform to “black non-conformists.” And those sites have white garbage counterparts; this is not unique to us. This doesn’t really have anything to do with race.

Is Ready Player One YA, or is it just targeted toward thirty- and forty-something man-children like the author? I can’t imagine an actual teenage boy being that interested in a book which is 90% references to specific media properties from before they were born. It’s definitely trash and doesn’t belong on any reading…

“There’s a lot of White Feminism TM going on”

I know I will be destroyed for saying this, but...

There’s a lot of White Feminism TM going on in there about “I experience 1 form of oppression, therefore EVERYTHING I DO IS OPPRESSED” as well as some serious Choice Feminism, i.e. “I demand that because I am a woman and I chose to read this that I be considered an empowered feminist because I made a choice”.

“A bad and stupid thing happened once, therefore bad and stupid things should keep happening” is a weird take.

This college should be absolutely horrifically and horribly ashamed of itself for using Ready Player One as it’s Common Read book. Demanding they repeat that mistake with a similar book strikes me as a…

Well, the authors’ responses speak to a YA level of maturity. One random person with basically no platform doesn’t wanna read your book and this is the response?

So a female college student attempted to raise the level of discourse on her campus by removing books written for young teens from the recommended reading list. Seems like a good thing. It is infantilizing for the college students to have children’s books recommended for them. Sure it might be enjoyable to read these…

My favorite (/s) response to Dessen’s tweet was when someone replied “Fuck that fucking bitch.”, and Dessen replied to that with “I love you. [heart emoji]”.

Comments like this one backing up Dessen’s position are missing the point so completely, it’s mind boggling:

Holy fuck, that was one of the most embarrassing things I’ve read recently.

it seems like an odd stance to take -or at least, incredible that she cared enough to actively try to block it - but I sort of get it, especially because I HATED the common book they picked for us and felt quite passionately about it after.

I’m with the student. YA books are fine, and I don’t care if other adults like them, but I applaud college students seeking more challenging material. Caveat: I have never read (or heard of) Dessen before this, so I don’t know if she’s actually YA.