This is some low energy shit right here.
It’s also not a new story. I read an article on this (I want to say last year?) and she talked about how she came from a super privileged, wealthy background and her embarrassment over her participation in this ball. I’m trying to find it now but every page of google is dominated by this latest news.
Umm... no... the headline should probably read “white girl went to a debutante ball when she was a teenager and was crowned princess by the organization that sponsored it which was linked to racism that the white girl likely knew nothing about”. I really hope she doesn’t get dragged through the mud for this shit.
There’s really not much of anything here. The headline and the beginning of the story made it sound like Erin from The Office was burning crosses and shit. Nope, she attended some corny debutante ball thing that has a racist past. Most of the US has a racist past.
So what did she actually do that was racist?
Am I missing something? I see no connection other than the origins of the festival or party or whatever that would tie her to KKK leanings. If dumbass Black people wanted to join that bullshit, that’s of course their choice but I don’t see where she was personally connected to the KKK or even racism. I also think it’s…
Most countries are like France or Germany, which both pay for private healthcare systems out of a mandatory paycheck charge but with different logistics (Germany is basically mandatory employer-based healthcare with a mandatory employer contribution and rates fixed by the government, while France is, like Medicare…
Any debatable advantages Lightning has over USB-C are weak compared to the advantage of being able to use one cable to charge any and all of your devices.
Aside from that one thing, USB-C has much faster data speeds and can support 100w charging. I’ll take USB-C thanks.
I would LOOOOVE to ditch the lightning cables, but I suspect if this passes, Apple will just skirt the rule with a dongle again.
So I thought the Sarah Dessen book I read was pretty good, and she probably shouldn’t be used as a stand-in for Everything Wrong with Literature. And I agree with Weiner’s general point that books by women are sometimes criticized more harshly than books by men. But good lord, all of the authors quoted here need to…
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]”.
Right?
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.
How would Dessen even find this criticism?
How great would it be if the other blogs all started covering sports today?
Deadspin usually has sports?
As someone who was once part of a similar insurrection against arrogant, incompetent, and condescending management, I want to applaud all of y’all for today’s showing. I’m sure you’re simultaneously enjoying the fun of mutiny while also understanding the risk. Please also know how much it means to us here in the feebl…
Can you let me know when you will be returning to sports coverage so I can go back to checking in once or twice per day? I have a lot to do today at work and all of these posts about non-sports topics are distracting because I Must Read Every Single One of Them. Whereas with the sports stuff I really only care if its…