EXACTLY. People have been SALIVATING waiting for her to fuck up. It’s what happens to uncooperative women! Honestly, I kind of feel like a big “fuck you” to Kara for playing patriarchy-enforcer here. This isn’t really about Alicia Keys’s lack of integrity for grooming her damn brows.

Yeah, I can’t really blame her for being in the public eye and just slapping a little tinted moisturizer or primer on. It doesn’t have to be full coverage, and it doesn’t have to be a full face - she’s definitely NOT doing a “no makeup makeup” look.

I do this look, too. I call it the “I have no meetings today but…

I really don’t think it matters much. I think the point is to normalize a bigger range of female beauty. Not to take some weird ascetic stance that requires a perfectly pure and 100% makeup-free face forever and ever. Even to SOMETIMES wear no makeup can be a big deal. Even to wear extremely minimal makeup can be a…

I don’t think she made a huge deal out of it though, the press did. I seem to recall when asked about it, she said that she had nothing against makeup or other women who enjoy wearing it everyday, and might wear it again, but she didn’t like feeling like she have to be made up all the time. I’ll try and find the…

no dude i am totally with you. nothing in that list even screams MAKEUP at me tho, which was the “proof” that she’s going back on her stance. and you’re right even if she did wear some some days i would not care.

And even then! Eyebrow filler does not seem like a huge big deal to me. Man, I just really, really, really wish it was more normalized for female celebrities to just not really do much makeup and have that be just whatever. And to still have them celebrated for their beauty. We don’t do this shit to men!

Yeah I feel you. I wear a little bit of eyeliner and I fill in my eyebrows everyday before I go to work because it makes my face look better and I think I look much more hotter and attractive with a bit of eyeliner. Does it mean I’m insecure or inauthentic? Fuck to the NO!

You know? I’m with Alicia Keys on this. I think it’s important for there to be women out there—especially famous women who are valued, in large part, for their beauty—who are deliberately NOT wearing makeup, and who are talking about the cultural implications of that publicly. It doesn’t really bother me that, okay,…

#1, it’s not her trial. She is mentioned as related to the trial.

Except that in this reporting, it’s not really about the trial or whatever. It’s about someone else entirely. Her legal name is not pertinent or newsworthy. Even if it were discussing her trial, it wouldn’t be necessary to use her deadname except perhaps at some point to acknowledge that trial documents call her…

Jezebel is neither a court nor the police. They are under no obligation to use legal name. The AP, NYT, and Reuters style guides all say to use a person’s identified name and pronouns unless it is specifically newsworthy to provide their dead name.

I just....I don’t get the level of nuts and evil you have to be to decide you’re going to administer homemade plastic surgery on another human being. What kind of mind decides this?? I’m too scared to sell my cute crafty things at craft fairs!

Pretty sure Alicia Clarke is a trans woman. There’s nothing to be gained here by deadnaming her, even if she is a terrible person.

Wasn’t someone in Florida just sentenced to ten years in a similar case?

I believe it is time for her to go for candy colors in her wig selections. That same bob-helmet would be great in turquoise or pink.

“Yoga’s great for your health and important to keep up during your busy schedule! Now dress properly, slut!”

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Have you been in any threads about Kellyann Conway? Clearly, the woman’s worst crimes are thin hair and haggard appearance. If only there was some morally bankrupt choices on her part that we could discuss instead, but, no, the worst thing about her is her resemblence to the cryptkeeper.

Oh crap, Slate and Evans are not together anymore? I was rooting for them, dammit. Such a cute couple.

I agree with you in general. I think Newton is talking about prestige dramas specifically. You’re absolutely right that your regular, bog-standard programmes like Corrie, Eastenders, the Bill, etc have made real efforts to diversify their casts. However, if you look at the big prestigious programmes like Call the…