He was just short of racist bingo, missing the watermelon or fried chicken reference.
I love this so much. I tutored elementary students in an underpriviledged and majority black school district in college, and part of our role was showing them that people that came from similar backgrounds could make it to one of the country’s finest educational institutions.
Totally agree but counterpoint: celebrating her demise only helps her make money on her book deal because it suggests that what happens to her matters to anyone. She’s like some fucked up sith lord (sorry, it’s Star Wars season) whose publicity feeds off peoples hatred of her.
Should’ve known folks would beat me to that very point.
But that doesn’t really make sense. I mean, YOU are a person. The person on the other side of the online encounter, ALSO a person.
Have to disagree with the idea that he, or anyone is owed an explanation. A decent person breaking things up would provide one, but no one is entitled to one to the point where you retaliate against the other person. And the shorter the relationship, the less there really is to explain.
Seriously, I mean it almost helps in those cases cuz—bullet dodged!
I think we have to recognize that none of this is to say, woe is me, guys have it so hard in relationships. Women have to be far more concerned about their safety in the dating scene than we do, because there are a lot of shitty guys out there.
The idea that she’s just a regular college-aged woman is frankly an insult to women generally. I know plenty of women that manage to avoid being entitled, narcissitic, poorly-communicating, controlling, weasels in their relationships. There are some great women out there. And all of THOSE women would indeed recognize…
I think the lesson is, we have control over whether or not we behave like decent people to others, we can’t control whether others do so in return.
Shouldn’t this stuff be OBVIOUS? If something is NOT OK to do, why are others defending it as perfectly OK to do?
I guess people who have been in abusive relationships with women just know what to look for while others give those women a pass to continue to behave in shitty, abusive ways.
THis to me is one of the biggest problems with reactions to the story7. No one defends the shitty things that the guy did, but people like you keep justifying, or even normalizing the creepy, entitled, body-shaming, bahavoir that she had. The people in that story are equally horrible and seem likely to be abusive.
More like a short story about two shitty and emotionally abusive human beings that probably deserve each other at the end if only to keep their creepy asses out of the rest of the dating pool.
For a woman, and white woman at that to get censure like this, she must have been truly horrible.
Let’s face it, when they say founding fathers, what they really mean is some of the things Madison and Jefferson said, and most of the things Charles Pinckney said. Hamilton and even George Washington, not so much.
“We are indeed in a struggle to preserve our republic, our civilization and our religion”
The picture otherwise known as “evidence A”
Dammit, fuck you Russel Simmons. A hashtag??? That suggests you want others to use it. Others also credibly accused of abhorent ass behavior. And now you want to start some movement for them??