Because they are probably normal, everyday people who didn’t ask to be thrust into the spotlight because their daughter is having a feud with a Jenner. If this keeps up, Amandla is going to make the tabloids. How would you feel if your kid is suddenly on the front cover of every trash magazine? (Never mind the…

I’m down for all of this, except:

“...what Kylie Jenner did was garbage...” To a lot - A LOT of white people who don’t get passed the headline, they just hear - “That’s mine!” “This isn’t yours!” They aren’t hearing, the *why*. They hear a bunch of angry people saying, “cultural appropriation! you cannot wear braids!” and in response white people say,…

I get confused, too. I thought we were supposed to love them now because they support Caitlyn. But now they're back to being garbage because of cornrows. I think they're fairly vapid, but that's about it. It's not a crime, you know?

And, y’know, how about helping people have less shitty lives, with fewer catastrophes to demand resilience and generate higher levels of cortisol?

How do you establish the content of the oral contract if it wasn’t recorded?

Haha, tell people you need cash because life is hard and you’re struggling and they’ll tell you where to go.

I’ve never understood this focus on resilience in poor communities. Of course these people are resilient. They have to be. People who aren’t don’t make it or, if they do, struggle with issues like addiction. The issue isn’t resilience, it’s lack of concrete resources especially money. Once the concrete issues are…

Yup. I do this every day with people. Just because someone says something means nothing if it is not witnessed. It’s something I’ve known since a business class in high school but grown ass adults just do not understand.

Yes, I remember the story you’re talking about. It’s frustrating that the concept has been so slow to catch on—there’s such an entrenched Victorian mentality around poverty, assuming that people are undeserving of the dignity of autonomy, because shame on them for being poor! But if you want to do something that…

This whole thing is ridiculous - Amandla and Kylie need to do whatever they need to do as teenagers, and anyone above the age of 19 needs to back out. Let the high schoolers be high schoolers. They will deal with things just fine on their own - especially Amandla. She is one smart cookie.

In regards to cultural…

Everything you said makes sense, except the Nicki Minaj/Taylor Swift comparison. Taylor Swift is doing that sweet, innocent persona. A more comparable question would be to wonder if he would treat Nicki Minaj the same as he would treat Lady Gaga or someone who is more open about sexuality in their music and…

So I know it’s not really my place to say, because I’m white, and actually I do completely agree with all your actual points, but something about referring to the Kardashians as a “trash family” sits poorly with me. It's totally right and justified to call them out on their behavior, but actually calling the entire…

Jaden Is Probably Trying To Maintain A More Metaphysical Perpective On This Matter. What If The World Is Cornrows And We Are All The Hair?

Direct cash payments to the poor are—by far—the most effective method of fighting endemic poverty. Not only do they build on local systems of knowledge, but moreover they are far more cost efficient and much easier to manage. All with added benefit of stripping out the disdainful paternalism to permeates so many other…

Hey Andy, whatever random negroes you happen to goad into agreeing with you, do not speak for all of us

So, Kara, I agree with you. But can we stop calling what Andy did a “bitch move?” Like, why is the only way you can express how wrong he is by associating that wrongness with femininity? What exactly makes a “bitch move” so much more wrong than, say, an “asshole” move or something?

This is awesome and so accurate. The popularity of research into “resilience” has gotten a ton of traction in recent years, but the truth is it shakes out to be another way to blame cycles of poverty on impoverished individuals rather than the institutions and power dynamics holding them back in the first place.

I wonder what Jaden Smith thinks about all of this. He is Kylie’s ex and was Stenberg’s prom date. And he was mentioned by Kylie. And, yet. nothing. Tyga hasn’t said anything either. He has neither come for or declared against his girlfriend. Come to think about it, none of Jenners and Kardashians have said squat. And…

Since he’s gay, he probably doesn’t know how to have sex with women so fucking him could damage a nerve or something