Our favorite place to buy both toilet paper and fast fashion has done it again!
Target recently released their new swimwear line for their spring campaign #TargetSwim. And let me tell you, body positive is on a hundred right now. Time and time again, we constantly see swimwear advertisements or marketing that aren’t really realistic when comes to showing off a woman’s body, but that’s about change even further with Target’s new campaign.
The line offers everything from boho styles to monokinis to the needed little black bikini that comes in all different of cuts and fits to make every woman feel good. The campaign is all about representing the real woman’s body and not the overtly photoshopped and airbrushed models used in almost every swim ad.
This all comes after Target was shamed for their questionable use of photoshop back in 2014 on one of the images for junior’s swimwear. So, it’s nice to see a big company like Target changing things around.
Despite six years of living in New York City, Marnie Michaels is not a cool girl.
Marnie is a textbook example of that one basic friend you have who doesn’t realize she’s basic and has actively convinced herself she’s cool in a kind of put together, but also bohemian way.
Like, she’s really broke, but she’s in a band and she works out like every day at Physique 57, so she’s doing okay.
And yet it was still jarring to watch her inexplicably take it upon herself to do her hair like she still a teenager living in the suburbs on Sunday night’s episode.
Well, Marnie’s mom got Marnie and her ex-husband Desi a gig at this supposedly happening club in New Jersey for all her mom friends, and Desi was like, “this is bullshit” and Marnie was like, “I knowwwwww, but it’s my Mom, ass wipe, it’s happening”
So Marnie did what Marnie does best.
She showed up to the gig looking like she tried way too hard to look like she was a cool, edgy girl from New York City who was above playing at a shitty venue in New Jersey.
And it kind of worked, until she took her hair down.
And then it was so bad, not even Marn could put on a good face.
Some friendship breakups happen for the better, and others for the worse, but they all hurt just the same. Your friends are supposed to be your loyal af day-ones and always there for you, so when they’re not, it’s really hard to accept.
So, inspired by “Girls,” we collected some of the worst friendship breakup stories.
Okay so basically I was BFFs with this girl, let’s call her Rachel, since she came to my college as a freshman (I was a sophomore and her “big” in our sorority). We partied together, I visited her family in Mexico, etc. We moved in together my senior year and thought it was going to be so lit, but I actually just realized how unmotivated, spoiled, and messy she was.
I stopped partying a lot senior year cuz I was working a bunch of jobs and trying to get my life together, and she got mad I wouldn’t black out with her on the weekends and didn’t have time to be around while she sat in the apartment watching Netflix all day.
She moved out after six months and we basically only saw each other in groups. When I was visiting NYC one weekend and made plans with my other BFF, she urged that I reach out to Rachel because Rachel was stubborn but she knew she missed me. I didn’t want to, but did anyway and we all went to lunch where she invited me to her birthday the following weekend in Philly. The next weekend we all went out to the club and I wasn’t drinking because I was having really bad anxiety/depression. She was pissed I wasn’t drinking and started telling me she thinks that I’m depressed because I’m not happy with my boyfriend, which I saw as totally out of line because she didn’t know anything about my relationship since we didn’t talk anymore.
Then, later in the night she asked if I’d be drinking the next night where she had bought a table at another club. I said no because of my anxiety, and she said that since she had to pay $40 per person for alcohol (actually her parents’ money, she’s never had a job in her life), maybe I shouldn’t go. It was at that point that I realized I had been trying to keep things civil for way too long and I really couldn’t have toxic people in my life like that. Hopefully I will never have to see her again.
I met Kyle when I was in 6th grade, and our friendship was the stuff of movies. He was pretty much the cutest boy I’d ever seen, and I couldn’t believe he would want to be friends with me. I had a crush on him the first few years of our friendship, but we agreed we’d work better as friends.
When we got to high school, we got even closer. Kyle was basically my only friend while I buried myself in books trying to get good enough grades to get myself out of the South.
He was my way of staying semi-relevant in high school. Everyone loved him, and I was vicariously popular. During one of our trips to Florida for spring break, Kyle tweeted, “You know it’s a good night when your lips are numb,” and tagged me. This was in reference to how drunk we were, but when break ended, the entire school was buzzing with the rumors that we had slept together. I had become the school slut, all because of his tweet.
And this is probably why our senior superlatives were “Best Couple Who Never Was.”
What no one knew, and mostly still don’t know, is that he was gay. Our friendship lessened the suspicion of his parents, who would have kicked him out of the house if he came out, and I was just about willing to do anything to help.
Fast forward to when we went to college. He had a long-term boyfriend that he was hiding from his parents, so when he finished school and moved in with his boyfriend, he told his parents he had actually moved in with me instead. His mom was sending me mail, and at one point a package got lost. I was so stressed out about his parents finding out. It was awful, and he never once thanked me for taking heat for him.
He and I had several arguments over the span of the year we were “living” together, most of which were over the pettiest things like communication and who said what. I had recently gotten a tattoo that meant a lot to me, and he told me, with an unnecessary amount of snark, “Well I wouldn’t put that on my body.” I could feel the end coming.
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Then one weekend while my mom was in town, and Kyle texted me asking if we could set up something so he could see her. I didn’t text him back for an hour, waiting for my mom to tell me what her plans were, and he texted me back, “Well I at least deserve a reply.” I couldn’t swallow it anymore. I fired back, telling him all the things I have done that I probs deserved something for too. I was so over having to constantly put him first. The next day we went out for brunch, and he didn’t look at me once, and we haven’t talked since. It upset me so much that I hit a pretty deep wave of depression and ended up in therapy.
I still miss him all the time, and I probably will forever, but when someone takes such a negative toll on your mental health, you have to put yourself first.
Backhanded
The worst breakup I had was with my high school best friend Anna. She came from this big, close-knit family, was whip smart, and everybody liked her. I was over at her house so much she felt like family.
But I was jealous of her and lied to her about losing my virginity even though I told every single other person I was friends with that I’d lost it. And then told them not to tell her. I kept her out of the loop for the entirety of that relationship and then I started becoming physically abusive.
At prom, I showed up late because my dad yelled at me for breaking my camera and then bought me a new one to say he was sorry — I was so frickin spoiled — and she tried to comfort me because she could see I was upset and I pushed her. Not to where she fell on the ground or anything, but still, it wasn’t okay.
And then on graduation, when more or less the same thing happened, I slapped her. In the library. In front of everybody. Somehow nobody saw what went down, but in most of the pictures afterwards, her face is red from where I slapped her and her eyes are full of tears.
I was a monster.
And yet, we kept on being friends throughout the first year of college.
But then, without any warning, she unfriended me on Facebook. And she didn’t respond to any of the many apology messages I sent her afterwards.
A few months ago, I found out that she’d gotten married from my mother and I couldn’t help it, I just started crying.
We’d always planned on being each other’s maids of honor and even though we hadn’t spoken in years and I’d given her every reason not to ever let me back in her life, I couldn’t believe she’d had this major life event happen and I had to learn about it from my mom.
All those years later, it still hurts. And it’ll probably never stop hurting.
Because it was all my fault and those are the kind of scars that never heal.
Day and Night
This friend breakup begins with a classic mistake: trying to turn a night time friend into a daytime friend. I had met this girl through boys we both hung around with. We realized we had fun raging together at the same parties, and we happened to both need a place at the same time, so we decided to move in together. But she turned out to be a total mess. We became really tight for a few months, but with time she got more and more out of control. She was always a slob and would avoid washing MY dishes and mugs for so long, they got so moldy she’d just throw them away.
She started dating a guy who had kicked a heroin habit a month prior, so clearly not the most stable person. I think the two of them were doing a ton of coke together, because her behavior became more and more erratic. It culminated with her breaking into my locked bedroom to “borrow” an air conditioner out of my window while I was on vacation. She accidentally dropped it out the window onto the sidewalk and lied to me about it. Someone could have died!
She also let a bunch of random dudes sleep in my bed while I was away. Gross. We decided to part ways when I got back from my trip, and it turned out she owed a ton of money in back rent to the landlord. We almost got evicted until her parents finally swooped in and paid off her debt. And then, as a grand finale, she trashed me to everyone we knew, saying I was a bitch.
When’s the best time to bring up “the talk” with the guy you’re hooking up with? Trick question, there is no good time.
If you bring it up early, the dude will probably call you crazy and clingy, then proceed to disappear like Casper. If you bring it up late he’ll probably freak out about the fact that you’ve been hooking up with other guys while hooking up with him and call you a slut.
Even dudes on Reddit who are normally opinionated about everything all have totally different ideas of when they want girls to bring up “the talk.” Some said after the first date, some said before they start having sex, and some said that they think girls should never bring it up at all. Great!
Obviously, the right time depends on the relationship and the dude. But instead of having good communication and cutting through all the bullshit, maybe you should just be passive aggressive af and hope he gets the hint? After all, if you can’t beat the psychopaths, join them.
1. Introduce Him To People As Your Friend
There’s nothing more awkward (or satisfying) then having to introduce your current boo thang to your friends. He’s not officially your boyfriend, so you don’t want to introduce him as such, but you’re also not going to be like, “Hey guys, this is Nick, the guy I met on Thirsty Thursday and have been fucking ever since.” Instead, just introduce him as your friend. Because hey, he is your friend, with benefits or whatever. He’ll probably get pissed, which is great because that’s the whole point. Sorry ’bout it.
2. Make Sure He Knows Your Love Life Is Not His Biznass
What is it with guys who feel the need to know a girl’s sexual history right when they start talking? If I needed someone to judge me about my sexual choices, I’d go to my gyno. I would never ask a guy what his sex number was, so why should he want to know mine? Guys think it’s totally chill to ask a buttload of questions about your dating life, and you might not want to tell him the answers for no other reason than the fact that it’s fucking awk! If he asks something that a rando shouldn’t know, tell him it’s not his business. Better yet, tell him he’s not your boyfriend so it’s not his business, because if he was your boyfriend than maybe it’d make sense for him to ask.
3. Make Sure To Explicitly Tell Him He’s Not Your Boyfriend
Basically, any chance you get to make it clear he’s not your boyfriend and you won’t treat him like one, do it. Sure, you could be a nice person and treat him like someone you care about, or you could be like a dude and treat him like a walking dildo, somehow the second will probs make him love you more because guys are psychopaths.
OMG, LOL, #singlegirlproblems! Don’t be embarrassing and complain about being single, that’s a horrible lewk. Just you know, make it clear you don’t have a man, which will cause the dude you’re talking to to get jealous af and realize he needs to lock it down. Classic.
5. Make Sure He Doesn’t Exist On Your Social Pages
Nothing makes me cringe more than girls who post pictures with a guy they’re “talking to.” Call me new-fashioned, but becoming “Instagram official” is just as bad as becoming Facebook official, except worse because one person can do it without the other’s consent. There’s no real benefit to posting pics of ur booty call prematurely unless showing people you’re not 100% single is really that important to you. All it achieves is make other people more involved in your love life than you need them to be. Take a lesson from T-Swift and Tom Hiddleston and keep your boo under wraps on social media until he starts getting pissed, then maybe he’ll realize that only real boyfriends get to be on your ‘gram.
At the end of the day, maybe the better idea would be to date a guy who knows he’s ready to commit and isn’t down to play games, and you can talk about exclusivity right away. Or, you could just harp on drama and drive yourself crazy being the passive aggro person you’ve always wanted to be!
While working at a makeup counter for some of the world’s biggest beauty brands, Chyna found that she still couldn’t wear the products she was selling because they didn’t carry her shade.
Tired of mixing shades or simply not wearing high-end brands at all, she saved her money and created her own luxury cosmetics line catering to women of color. The Brooklyn native built her brand from the ground up and wants women everywhere to feel beautiful and confident. Check out our Q+A for some kick ass motivation and what Chyna thinks about the current “trend” of makeup brands carrying darker toned products.
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In your own words, what would you describe your career as and how did you get there?
I’ve had serval jobs over the years, but I’ve always worked in beauty. I’ve been on this journey of makeup artistry since I was 13 years old. At first I wanted to be an entertainment lawyer, but makeup was always a passion of mine. When I was 19, I got pregnant with my son and ended up getting a job at Cosi in New York. I was working there to provide for my son. When I was at the mall in Brooklyn one day, I saw this black owned makeup company kiosk with beautiful black women selling products and it really stood out to me. I went over and asked if they were hiring and one of the girls told me to come back on Tuesday.
When I asked my manager for Tuesday off, he said no and if I didn’t come in he would fire me. That was huge for me because I had to chose between a job that helped me provide for my son and an opportunity that wasn’t guaranteed. In that moment I learned about courage. Although I was young, scared, and timid, I went with my gut and took a risk by leaving my job and going back to that kiosk.
I went there everyday for two weeks straight, but didn’t know if I had the job or not. When my mom told me to ask the manager, she told me I did and that’s when I knew that whatever I want, I will get.
What void do you feel you’re fulfilling in the beauty industry?
I worked for that company for five years and started working for major brands like Chanel, Lancome, etc. It was crazy because I would be selling these products but wearing another brand because they didn’t sell my shade. I was the top seller, got all the hours, but still couldn’t wear the companies products even though I made so much money for them. I would bring so many black customers because they would see me and be like, “Wow, a dark skinned women working for this brand.” This made me [feel like] black women [were coming] to these counters, spending so much money, and aren’t even supported. I feel women of color are overlooked and underrated. So I said, “I’m going to get my money together and my knowledge up and invest in my own business.”
It kills me when people act like melanin is a trend, but this is who we are. I knew it was a void in our culture because women who look like me didn’t matter. I can’t even imagine what my mother and grandmother had to go through to look and feel beautiful because brands are just now supporting darker skin tones. We come in so many shades, it’s wild that all these years we haven’t been supported.
When you first became a freelance MUA what did you struggle most with?
I struggled most with being so personal with everything. When doors closed, I took things personal because my heart was in it. If I could tell my younger self to be patient, I wouldn’t have struggled with allowing people to understand and see my vision on their terms.
What was a difficult time in your life that you overcame and how did you do so?
Seven years ago I gave birth to my daughter and a year later her father was murdered. The world became quiet and I knew what it felt like to want to die. I didn’t understand death and that things happen to good and bad people. I lost my passion for everything. I couldn’t get up, look at my kids, nothing. I remember hearing my mom on the phone crying because she couldn’t take my pain away.
I was losing so much weight and not feeling anything anymore, and in that moment I realized that I had a family still and that tragedy became my blessing because it put a different type of light under my ass. It made me reclaim my strength and passion and that’s when the sky literally became the limit for me.
What made you open up your first storefront in Brooklyn as opposed to any other location and what has owning a storefront done for your brand?
Brooklyn is a place where I see little brown girls like me who don’t know they’re beautiful. We didn’t have anything beautiful or luxurious growing up. I remember telling my friends I was going to do this as a kid and they would look at me like I’m crazy because the storeowners in our neighborhood were whites, asians, and other races.
I want girls to know that when one wins, we all win. Brooklyn is where I learned how to hustle, where I earned my stripes. My store taught me about loyalty and how self-hate is out there. Black men and women struggle to support each other because some feel like they don’t deserve nice things; so when people see someone who looks like them doing well they start to try to bring you down. I didn’t understand it at first, but my store taught me these life lessons and so much about my culture. My first store had to be in Brooklyn because I am Brooklyn.
Do you feel that there is a difference between black owned cosmetic lines and non-POC brands, in terms of support and sales? Why or why not?
This question is so needed. It’s so funny that when I got into this industry a lot of MUAs goals were to work for MAC and I learned how they’re owned by Estee Lauder. They put us in the mall [in retail positions], but when you look at their corporate offices it’s all non people of color. MAC is powerful because they see how important influencers are and use this to their advantage without having to do much. So they send these black YouTubers and beauty influencers products because they see how happy we become when someone from our community gets on.
They see how social media influences so much and now they’re realizing our power. Like how ABH has a chestnut shade, but where was this shade five years ago? I want black people to realize that these major brands aren’t really for us, they just act like it for sales. I wish I had more money to do all the things I want because we have to work extra hard to get half of what they have. I know for a fact my products stand right beside all these major brands.
Where would you like to see yourself and your brand in the next year?
My plan is that all women of color can literally find something in Dollhouse that makes them feel beautiful and special. I don’t wanna be in major stores, but I want to have storefronts all over the world, in places where kids are still being called ugly because they have dark skin. I want my stores in places that ain’t shit. Places they call the slums. I want to make my people feel better.
What’s something you want your supporters to know about you that they can’t learn from your social media?
I want people to know that I’m a God fearing woman who has been through hell and back. I’ve survived abuse and tragedy. I want women to know that I’ve struggled and made some and lost some, and am no different from anyone else. I know that it gets greater later and that makes me never quit. To all women reading this, be patient, understand timing, know your power and live your life to it’s true potential.
Arguably, the worst thing about acne is the horrendous scars that it can leave behind. You really can’t cover them up with just any old foundation because it almost makes them stand out more.
The fresh acne on your face is even harder to cover up. You can pack on as much concealer as you want to get rid of the redness, but it’s still going to look like Mount Vesuvius.
In order to avoid that, I’ve always looked for a foundation that doesn’t clog my pores, but also provides full coverage of redness. There has to be a happy medium, right?
It’s a breathable foundation that not only helps to cover the redness caused by acne, but also helps to heal some of the scarring left from acne. It was made for dermatologists and plastic surgeons to give their patients after small aesthetic procedure like a chem peel or minor cosmetic surgery.
It helps speed up healing time while oxygenating the surface of your skin. I’ve been using it for a little over two months, and my breakouts have significantly decreased. It also makes your skin super soft, because it’s also a moisturizer, and minimizes pores without clogging them.
Oxygenetix basically operates as a “second skin” so it doesn’t even rub off on your clothing.
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However, the best part about this foundation though is that you can wear it to the gym, and it doesn’t smudge because of sweat or water, which is great because I’m always the most insecure about my skin at the gym. The sweat only seems to bring out the redness of my scarring even more.
Kendall Jenner may be in every single fashion magazine you can get your manicured little hands on and Kim Kardashian may be a household name, but Kylie Jenner is the red hot Kardashian of the moment.
Which is why Kylie’s following the time-honored Kardashian tradition of getting her own KUWTK spinoff.
“Kylie is so excited,” a source close to Kylie told Perez Hilton, adding, “[The show’s] going to be all about building her business, and hiring people for her team.”
But don’t worry, because that’s probably not true.
Kylie’s reality show will probably be “all about building her business” the same way previous KUWTK spinoffs “Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami” or “Kourtney and Kim Take New York” were all about the girls opening up new DASH boutiques. Which is to say, not really at all.
Kylie will spend 10 minutes an episode in wherever it is that the big business stuff happens, where she’ll mostly get in fights about whatever drama’s going on in her life, and then she’ll be set loose upon the world to thot it up and live her life.
If this show does materialize, it’s worth noting that Kendall will have been the only Kardsahian family member never to have her own show, which is equal parts sad and admirable.
Fingers crossed Kylie’s spinoff gets better ratings than I Am Cait.
Makeup names are always kind of silly and arbitrary, but Kylie Jenner just named her inaugural line of blushes such incredibly sexual names that we have to, well, blush.
“If you know me you know my favorite product is BLUSH,” Kylie announced on Snapchat Monday afternoon, before unveiling her newest line of makeup products, while Drake sweetly serenaded her about not getting spray tans anymore in the background.
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Basically, it seemed like a business-as-usual Kylie Cosmetics roll out, but then, she lined up all the boxes in a row and casually instructed us to use our eyes to read what she decided to name them:
X-Rated, Barely Legal, Virginity, Hot and Bothered, and then for all her under 16 fans who still need to ask their parents to buy them everything, she also named one Hopeless Romantic.
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Granted, there’s something inherently sexual about blush and brands have had tremendous success with naming their blushes after sex-related things, like when NARS came out with their “Orgasm” blush, so-called because it supposedly looked great on everybody, but c’mon Kylie, “Barely Legal”?
Girl, that’s sus and you know it.
You and Tyga obviously have a love that will outlast us all, but in general, older dudes scooping up barely legal ladies is skeez.
That being said, it’s a fantastic blush color and the youth of America will probably buy it up like hotcakes simply because of the name, so it’s probably a genius marketing tactic.
Have you ever wondered how your blogger friend gets so many comments on her photos of boring shit?
Like, seriously, if you posted a basic photo of your black loafers, you’d get maybe one comment from your BFF for support and potentially another comment from one of those “freefollower” accounts telling you to check out their page (cuz your Instagram clearly needs help).
But when a blogger/influencer posts the same boring shot, she gets a zillion comments. And they’re not just one worded comments or heart-eyed emojis, but actually long comments with people professing their love for the shoes, recounting similar passions for ballet flats, and overall being engaging af.
You probably just figured it’s because she has fans or whatever, but it could actually just be a secret technique that bloggers use to try to look more popular than they actually are.
Racked, who did a deep dive on these engagement groups, dubbed this technique “Instagram pods.” What they are is a private group of bloggers who agree to like and comment each others’ posts at all times. If you’re a part of a group like this, you send over your post to the group (via your DMs) to ensure that they all see it and comment on it. On top of this, many of these groups have a word minimum, so if you are constantly just commenting one-worded answers like “cool!” you’ll probs get kicked out.
The social media strategists that Racked spoke to don’t know if these pods are really helping aspiring influencers get more followers or views, but one way they could help is that they make their pages look like they get more engagement, which could help them get more paid promotion deals with brands. After all, anyone with thousands of followers and barely any commenters is suspected of having fake followers.
For more about the truth about Instagram pods, read Racked’s original story, and always look at your fave bloggers with a grain of salt.
When it comes to going a bit cray over your last relationship, singer Tatiana Hazel has your back. Actually, her eight personalities shown in her new video do.
Tatiana’s new single “Losing My Mind” stems from that moment you realize you are devoting way too much time on that fuckboy. The video features a purple-and-blue-haired Tatiana “losing her mind” and then splitting into multiple personalities.
“The video consists of eight different personalities each with different attitudes,” she said. “I like to base my music and art off real life experiences but exaggerate and alter the story lines to expose less of my own personal life.”
The groovy tune features echoey vocals and honest lyrics that will make you feel like Tatiana may have just crawled inside your head and sang some of your thoughts.
Check the new video out here, and give Tatiana a follow on the socials to keep up to date on her upcoming EP release.
Kim’s Snapchat looks entirely different from the average user’s and we need answers.
On Sunday’s intense episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Kim is observed taking videos for her Snapchat story. The footage is later incorporated into the episode featuring a countdown clock from 95 seconds down. Which is weird AF since Snapchat hasn’t had a countdown clock on stories in years.
The snap, featured below from the Instagram user @kimksnapchats, is definitely a real snap from Kim Kardashian’s account. But what’s the explanation for the countdown clock in the episode?
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Snaps sent between users do feature a square countdown clock but the one on the episode is circular, so even if they sent it to another account to be recorded it’s still weird AF. Also, saving it from another account would be unnecessary when they could just download them from Kim’s story. So I genuinely don’t think that’s the case.
It’s possible that the clock was added in post-production, which is proof that even normal everyday aspects of the reality show are heavily edited. I, however, am a Kardashian conspiracy theorist, and that answer simply doesn’t resonate with me. The KUWTK production team is so intentional. Why would they include inaccurate touches, like a clock that doesn’t actually exist, to the episode?
The theory that Kim Kardashian is a time traveler who found a way to use an older version of the app is one of my personal favorites, but if I can offer a more a realistic suggestion: Kim K has a different version of the app that counts down the time she records because she gets paid to Snapchat. This way, she knows exactly how many seconds she spent recording in that pay period.
Again, this is just a theory, but it’s pretty spot-on, right?
I mean, come on. The incorporation of Snap footage on the KUWTK episode, the way she announced that she would be snapping for the television audience, it totally gives off the impression that she’s promoting Snapchat intentionally. Multiple sources, including Mashable and Elite Daily, contacted the Kardashians for comment and were told there was no difference but it’s obviously different! And so, I remain a skeptic.
Pulling off the no-makeup makeup look that’s pretty much everywhere besides Kylie Jenner’s Instagram feed can be tricky, but you know what makes it easier?
Having those Hadid genes running through your DNA code.
Today Bella posted a sneak peak at her upcoming cover for Porter Magazine, and while she’s likely guilty of following some of these sneaky tricks, she looks like a beacon of no makeup-wearing beauty.
In fact, my editor even went so far as to say Bella looks like a young Kate Moss in this picture.
TBH, I don’t know about Kate Moss comparisons, but the more time I spend staring at her sun-kissed face, the more in awe I become of the waves of beauty radiating off her face and in the ocean behind her.
Mostly though, this picture just makes me wish summer was right around the corner.
And that I actually liked going to the beach.
Damn you for reminding me of all my imperfections, Bella.
But like, good for you for looking so good without so much makeup on.
Every trend goes through a cycle. It starts as something that only someone like Giovanna Battaglia would wear, then after a certain amount of time, every basic is wearing it to walk around the mall with their pre-teen friends.
Obviously, some trends are simply too hideous to make it to mainstream (although they may make a watered down version), but for the most part, that’s how it works.
Spring’s biggest trends have already been popping up everywhere, but some of the most bizarro trends haven’t quite made it off Instagram yet. To fashion snobs, this just makes the trends even cooler. I mean, this season, it seems like the uglier something is, the better.
Here’s what fashion insiders and snobs will be wearing this spring while the rest of us prance around in millennial pink.
Arguably the most disturbing of the insider trends right now, the FUPA pants are one of those things that legit don’t look good on anyone except people who are stick thin or have a ridic hip to waist ratio. These don’t even look amazing on Kylie, everyone’s just distracted by her cute hair and poppin’ cleavage to notice the folds of fabric around her crotch area.
The go-to jean silhouette has been skinny for forever, so fashion peeps had to shake things up. The flare is slowly creeping back into style, and those annoying scraggly hemmed jeans are also everywhere among trendy crowds. But these super wide-legged jeans are another animal entirely.
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The average person can’t step out with their nips exposed. The average person also can’t spend $300+ on a latex dress that needs to be shined with a special oil every few minutes. Celebrities can. And we’re just jealous, because latex looks hot. Unfortunately, it also is hot, and unless you have an assistant to fan you at all times, you’ll probs look like a hot mess.
Blue lipstick is poppin’ off on Pinterest, and predicted to be one of the biggest beauty trends this spring along with the color mauve. Will you look great in it? Probably not. Will you look edgy and way cooler than your high school friends who are still wearing Uggs? Deffo.
If we have to adopt any of these trends, we’re definitely going to go with this one. First off, leopard print is always a yes. Second off, who doesn’t want to wear their pajamas out of the house? Granted, normal people wear period-stained sweatpants and ex-boyfriend’s t-shirts to bed, but this trend is a great excuse to invest in pajamas you wouldn’t be embarrassed to be seen in.
For a show chronicling the events leading up to a murder where absolutely every character seems like they’re capable of getting their hands bloody, somebody makes a bad decision or mistake in just about every scene.
Sometimes multiple times.
Here’s a list of every mistake every character made in this week’s episode of “Big Little Lies” ranked from YOLO to OMG, do you want your life to end rn? Also, duh, SPOILERS.
Madeline walking up the steps paying no caution to the caution signs
Maybe they were there for a reason – you never know!
Madeline trying to have spontaneous kitchen sex with her husband
Their daughter walked in on them while she had her underwear pulled down and he was about to whip his dick out. Awkward.
Madeline spying on her daughter’s Facebook page
Of course Madeline has the password to her teenage daughter’s Facebook account and of course she freaks the fuck out when she sees her daughter’s friend comment on one of her pictures by saying she doesn’t know if it’s sexy/slutty enough.
GRL, this is what teenagers do. They’re obsessed with looking sexy/slutty and most of the time they don’t end up pregnant or with an STD, so just chill.
Madeline walking along the cliffs of Monteray by herself
There she was, minding her own business, when Renata Klein and a bunch of Avenue Q puppets appear out of nowhere to push her over the cliff. Luckily it was all a dream, but still, it’s not a good idea. Especially when somebody’s about to get murdered.
Madeline’s husband Eddie telling her not to use the downstairs bathroom
She was thinking about having sex with him and he goes and tells her he took a massive shit in the bathroom. Cute. Of course, she still went ahead and tried to have sex with him, but that says more about the strength of a determined libido than it does about him.
Renata wearing this “power” sweater
It’s just not flattering. She has money. She can do better.
Jane throwing her phone off a cliff
Luckily it landed in the sand because life’s a beach, but this could have easily ended disasterously. 10/10 do not recommend.
When these unidentified kids start poking a dead animal
I literally don’t even know who these kids are or how they found this dead animal, but poking a dead animal with a stick is always a bad idea. Maybe it has a disease, maybe one of your friends get a little too interested and realizes he/she is destined to become a serial killer. Shit happens.
When the school called in all the parents to talk about Ziggy
Obviously, if one kid has a frickin’ bite mark on her shoulder, that’s a serious problem the school has to take seriously, but calling in Renata Klein and anybody else at the same time is a disaster waiting to happen. Even though the principle was trying to talk to them all one by one, Renata burst into Jane’s session and demanded they figure out wtf they’re gonna do about disciplining Ziggy like the rabid bulldog she is.
Madeline going back to the hospital to check on that director she’s having an affair with
Cuz that’s not gonna make his wife ‘spicious af at allllllllllllllll.
Perry changing his mind about playing tennis
The kids are out of the house so Perry and Celeste end up having sex on the kitchen counter. Surprisingly, the sex seemed pretty violence free, except he ripped Celeste’s blouse, and maybe she really liked that blouse.
Also, that blouse is from The Row, which means that blouse was really expensive and maybe from last season so already irreplaceable.
Jane spending her spare time shooting the shit in a shooting range
Ordinarily, this wouldn’t even rank so high, but Jane’s not just going to the shooting range, she’s going to the shooting range 24 hours before taking a road trip to confront the dude who raped her. Sus.
Celeste meeting Perry at the airport
Let’s do the math. Your abusive husband leaves town for a few hours, you have a breakthrough at therapy where you realize he’s dangerous, and then you go meet him at the airport with your kids? Girl, you know you’re just gonna have to leave him, why make it harder on yourself?
But real life, battered woman syndrome is no joke. Our thoughts go out to Celeste in her hour of need.
Madeline telling Jane where the guy who raped her works
One, that’s not her place.
Two, Jane is understandably a little unhinged when it comes to the guy who raped her.
Third, when her husband asked her why she was so weird recently, she didn’t tell him about the affair, she told him about this. So obvi that’s coming back to bite her in the ass super soon.
Perry angrily picking up Leggos
Cuz you know what happens after he picks them up? He dumps them on Celeste’s head and physically assaults her.
Jane pulling a gun on her kid
Let’s be honest, we all saw this one coming, right? Jane sleeps with a gun under her pillow every night, which is already concerning, but then one night she wakes up with a fright because she senses somebody’s in the bed with her. So she pulls the gun on the intruder and then realizes, oh shit, that’s my own son. My b. Luckily Ziggy doesn’t wake up but still, that coulda gone south rurl fast.
Jane smoking weed while driving to see the man who raped her with a loaded gun in her handbag
Nothing about this is a good idea. Especially when a song that goes, “mommy can I go out to kill tonight, ‘cuz I feel like taking a life” starts playing in the car.
The guy Madeline’s having an affair comes to meet her at the cafe
They end up taking a drive in his car because they don’t wanna make a scene in public, and then right after he’s like, “let’s try and make this work babe.” They get hit by a car, his lung collapses, but then he’s magically chilling at the hospital.
And then it gets worse when Madeline’s husband is like, “ummmm, why was you in that car, wifey?” And she was like, uh, blah blah lie blah blah. Like the smart cookie he is, after she’s finished BSing, her husband sits there in silence and then says, “k, well at least you didn’t die,” and then walks out of the room.
Remember how that one dude said he was like Charles Mansion?
I know I know, Drake and Rihanna broke up forever ago, but gosh darn it, I refuse to live in a world where stewing on one of the great relationships of our time is looked at as last season’s news.
Especially when stewing on relationships might as well be Drake’s official pastime.
So while the rest of the world was combing through “More Life” looking for J-Lo references, I was busy hunting for clues to tell me how Champagne Papi’s feeling about the woman he’s been in love with since he was 22 years old and who keeps getting away.
Sadly, while I found the clues I was looking for, the story it paints isn’t the kind that ends in happily ever after.
Although neither Drake nor Rihanna has ever explicitly spoken about why they suddenly stopped seeing each other in 2016, a source told E! it was due to hectic scheduling.
Sure, they could both find time to hang out in Miami for a couple of days and get caught neck nuzzling, but as anybody who’s ever tried to make a long distance relationship work knows, giving your relationship that much space almost never ends well.
On “Passionfruit” Drake describes a relationship that’s “passionate from miles away” but where the girl in question is “passin’ up on my old ways / I can’t blame you, no, no.”
Who knows for sure, but you know it’s gotta be sus if even Drake can recognize it’s not exactly boyfriend material.
He continues:
“Listen / hard at buildin’ trust from a distance / I think we should rule out commitment for now / ‘cause we’re fallin apart.”
That same source that told E! Drake and Rihanna broke off said the two “are seeing other people at the moment. They are not exclusive anymore. They still love each other, but their schedules have gotten in the way.”
Later on “Teenage Fever,” Drake sounds like he’s calling up an ex to tell her he’s still sore about what went down, but he’s not letting it get in the way of him getting it in.
“Your heart is hard to carry after dark / you’re to blame for what we could have been / ‘cause look at what we are / your friends are scared to tell you you’re in too far / funny that it’s always been all about you from the start / I met someone new last night and we kicked it / and I’m going back there tonight.”
Sure enough, after Drake and Rihanna broke up, Drake quickly started dating India Love, whose ex-boyfriend supposedly cheated on India with Rihanna, which many people interpreted as something designed to piss Rihanna off.
And it low key worked because Rihanna quickly posted this shade-filled meme on her Instagram account which said, “none of my exes are married or in happy relationships so it’s safe to say I wasn’t the problem lol.”
Finally, on “KMT,” Drake rules out any plans for romance right now by declaring, “Love is just not in my plans / not even takin‘ a chance.”
So yeah, things don’t look great for Aubrih right now.
Nostalgia is always fun. We can’t help the feeling of wanting what the past had when it comes to fashion, music, and beauty.
Though the 90s seem to always make a appearance each year, we are slowly seeing the growth obsession with the early 2000s. But let’s be honest, some of our fav beauty products of the 2000s need a little bit of an update. So if you still want to rock the look of NYX shimmery roll on eyeshadows and Maybelline’s Great Lash mascara, I got you covered.
And if you’re not feelin’ the upgraded version, you can still buy some of your past faves!
Jenna Kelly’s life sounds like the basis of an 80’s song. You know, the ones about a small town girl moving to the big city and becoming a big star.
Jenna went straight from Kentucky to NYC, and her first acting gig was a movie where she played a sniper opposite Bruce Willis. Casual.
When she’s not slaying on screen or on the billboards for brands like Sam Edelman, she’s taking road trips, thrift shopping, and watching basketball. We talked to the up and coming IT Girl about adjusting to the big city life, her fave NYC hot spots, and why sports will always have a place in her heart. Check out the interview and the exclusive photos by her boyfriend Jake Hoffman.
What’s something most people don’t know about growing up in the south?
That sports are life, at least in Kentucky. From little league to high school, it never stops! The small town sports-community become and remain family and this is something I highly value. I believe in the power of organized sports and a loyal community and truly think it helped shape my adult self. Lots of community love and positivity.
What was the biggest adjustment you had to make moving from Kentucky to NYC?
Well, there are more people that live in my apartment building than my hometown, so that was (and still is) a little hard to believe sometimes.
According to your IMBD, you’ve appeared in just two movies. Is it true that you launched you acting career with a big film? Or did you start with smaller roles?
I dove in headfirst with acting. One thing led to another and my first role was playing a sniper opposite of Bruce Willis. Now I definitely have the bug and am excited to do more.
What’s the last road trip you took?
Took PCH from LA to San Luis Obispo (about three hours) specifically to stay at the Madonna Inn. If you want to feel like you’re living in a movie, I highly recommend this one. Pink tennis courts, a rock waterfall shower and champagne cake. Yes, please!
My next road trip will hopefully be a drive from NYC to stay at The Greenbrier in West Virginia. I am obsessed with Dorothy Draper (Greenbrier interior designer).
What keeps you busy when you’re in the car for a long time?
Tom Petty, spontaneous stops, and no rules.
What’s the last thing you picked up at a thrift store?
70’s tailor made Rolls Royce bell bottoms with the woman’s initials J.L.H on them….J.L.H, if you’re reading this, I pretend I’m you sometimes.
Old beautiful red roller skates. They must weigh 20 pounds. It was a pain in the ass to even carry them home and let’s be honest, I definitely can’t roller-skate but they fit like a glove. Now, I often find myself trucking through JFK with my skates over my shoulder as my carry-on second guessing myself every step of the way.
What was your favorite outfit as a kid and what does it say about who you are now?
Kid Jenna and current Jenna have lots in common. I was always an odd, yet cozy kid. Sweatpants, mismatched socks, oversized everything with a flavor of girly in there somewhere. I was (am) a tomboy riding my four-wheeler at six years old whilst asking my mom to take my photo so I could “pose.” See below:
What movie should everyone see before they get old?
Harold and Maude.
As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? What’s your dream job now?
As a kid, I wanted to be a prison guard (I have no explanation). In college I even took several Criminology classes and I watched lots of crime documentaries. I am very happy I chose a different career path! My dream job would be to literally be Guy Fieri, hair and all.
What are 5 essentials that you must have in your fridge?
1. Raspberries
2. Chinese delivery leftovers
3. Gourmet mustard
4. A nice bourbon collection on top of my fridge
5. Milk chocolate (thrifty tip: always go candy shopping the day after Valentine’s Day)
What’s your fave NYC place to eat? To shop?
Oh man, this is a tough one. Some of my favorites are NoMad Bar (burger), Hillstone (ribs), Cafe Habana (burrito), Le Bilboquet (chicken), Grey Dog (everything). I’m more of an eater than a shopper, but I do love Vintage Twin for old school denim and tee shirts.
What’s your sign? Do you think you fit the description?
I am a Sagittarius and I believe I fit the description perfectly. I can be a bit hard-headed, not overly emotional, and always ready for the next adventure.
Your mom’s favorite reality TV show Dancing With the Stars had its season premiere on Monday night, and we couldn’t help but notice the dress they put Normani Kordei in looked just like Kim Kardashian’s Met Ball dress.
The month of March is National Women’s Month, a month where us girls get to unapologetically celebrate our womanhood.
What better way to do that than to recognize some creative women who love women? Being a queer female in the creative business and in the world in general comes with a negative stigma. Harassment by male counterparts and rejection because of their style or mannerisms are just a few of the reasons why it can be so hard for queer women to get ahead in the creative industry.
Despite these obstacles, these six badass women are pushing past these odds and showing the world there is room for women artists, despite their sexuality. Whether it be styling, rapping or photography these women are truly amazing at what they do and you should definitely hit that follow button.
With clients such as Fila, Schoolboy Q and Cher Lloyd, this UK stylist knows style and class. When she isn’t styling look books and editorials, Ayishat also spends her time creating mixes on Soundcloud. Her afro carribbean roots show in her styling. She has a keen eye for color and style and makes her clients look absolutely stunning.
Check out this fashion film Ayishat styled, shot by director and photographer Jelani Pomell.
This Bronx native has a way of getting you hooked with her sultry folk. She grew up in New York City but her roots and love for music was bred in New Orleans. Along with her beautiful voice, her music videos, highlight the LGBT community. Her newest album “The Navigator” gives off a southern blues vibe which highlights her voice in all the right ways.
Elizabeth creates stunning portraits of women through the lens of her camera. This Indonesian native has a way of capturing the essence of a woman in one single photo. She is also a graphic designer and just released her first documentary called “Underground Art Kids” about the underground artists living in NYC chasing their dreams.
Suna is a rapper based in NYC who has preformed on stages in New York, New Orleans, Baltimore and Philadelphia. Since she has moved to New York, she has been recognized by Urban Outfitters, Teen Vogue and VFILES for her lyricism and melodic beat selection. She recently just released a project called “Nspo Mix Vol. 1” which is available for download on Soundcloud.
Cinemadona’s client list ranges from PJ Morton (Maroon 5’s keyboardist) to Ambré Perkins to the one and only Beyoncé herself. Cinemadona’s was one of the directors of photography for the video for Formation, from the album Lemonade. And she slayed this project as she does with all of her films. It was only right that Bey include a New Orleans Native to help showcase the city.
At the young age of 19, Imani has won several awards for her writing and poetry and is currently editor of Cunjuh magazine. Her poetry depicts women perfectly and highlights the magic of being a woman of color. Her recent project with n LA videographer highlights the frustration and beauty of black hair.
Kitchen, written and narrated by Imani Love and directed and shot by Takai the Artist.
If you read this website, you probably have a mostly liberal social media feed. And if you have a liberal social media feed, you’re sure to have seen Hasan Piker before.
Hasan Piker is most famous for the videos he produces for The Young Turks, but he’s also famous for being hot, and is regarded as “woke bae” around the internet. But is Hasan the sexy and informed liberal dude we’ve all been waiting for? Or is he just another dude who thinks he needs to mansplain Planned Parenthood to someone who actually has a vagina?
We talked to Hasan and asked him the questions that we’ve all been wondering. Not if he’s single (sorry), but if there’s a way to turn a dude from an ignorant idiot into a woke bae, why he keeps hitting on Tomi Lahren, and how he got into journalism.
Read on for Hasan’s tips about how to navigate politics in your dating life, the crazy DMs he gets, and how he actually used to have a thing for conservative girls.
So when you were starting your career, did you hope to be on camera or were you more on the writing side?
Neither actually, I started off on the business side. I always had an idea of the show/concept that I’m currently doing right now. I knew there was a place for that, specifically on The Young Turks. We’ve never done anything like that before and I always wanted to do something like that, or pitch something like that.
I started out on the business side and built out our direct advertising sales and operations, and then I started producing on the side, then guest hosting whenever a host wouldn’t show up. Then I pitched a show on the entertainment and pop culture channel called “Pop Crunch,” and they were in the market for more content, and I told them I would basically do all this for free and it wouldn’t even interfere with my actual work with the company, so they got a good deal out of it. Then eventually, they put me in charge of all basic operations and I became a full time host.
That’s really cool to hear, how you actually started out. That speaks to people who say they don’t necessarily like what they’re doing and want to try something different.
Yeah, well one thing I realized is how much I hated sales. At first I thought it was fine cause you make a decent amount of money if you’re halfway good at it. But I realized…when I moved away from sales to on camera, I was happier on Sunday nights, I was happy when I was going to work on Monday. I always [previously] thought [with my sales job that] it was the usual Monday jitters you have, the Sunday night anxiety where the work week is starting, whereas it’s not so usual if you love your job.
A lot of people and relationship experts are saying not to bring up politics on the first date, do you agree with that?
I don’t think that politics completely identify you as a person, but at the same time, in this day and age, politics are definitely at the forefront of everyone’s mind. You’re speaking to someone who has two past girlfriends who are blonde conservative southerners, one who is also religious on top of that, and I am literally the antithesis of that, but I made it work. I don’t know why I went after that type.
But yeah, at the end of the day it doesn’t define you as a person unless you love it, and at that point, that difference of opinion can create a massive conflict and eventually lead to larger problems down the line, so maybe it’s better to get it out of the way kind of.
Plus, I’m Turkish and come from a culture where politics is heavily discussed. It’s like the number one thing everyone loves to talk about, it’s politics and soccer. So I grew up very political. This is something I tell people about all the time. [People are] like, “Wow, you’re 25 years old and you have a very clear ideology that you believe in, how did you achieve that at an early age?” Cause I’ve been doing that since I was 12, basically.
With those girls you dated that are conservative, how did you make it work? I’ve heard people have a rule they don’t talk politics once they realize it’s a dividing factor or kind of agree to disagree with that stuff.
Well, I was always involved in a very political company from the get-go with both of those relationships. They knew what my opinions were and a big part of my job became addressing the concerns that I had with the Obama administration or Donald Trump. They were very aware and it had to be in the forefront with me specifically.
For normal individuals, I think two people with different opinions can make it work. Some of my closest friends… are liberals, some voted for Donald Trump, some think that Muslims may inherently or culturally be predisposed to violence or anti-western ideals, that directly conflicts with not only my personality, but also what I believe in, but I still can maintain a relationship with them.
I think you can learn a lot from people with a different opinion and I think you can teach them a lot as well. What I don’t excuse is not a lack of knowledge or difference of opinion, but what I can’t condone is ignorance. An unwillingness to communicate, an unwillingness to look at or process new information in an objective way. As long as someone is not ignorant in that regard, as long as they have that capacity to sit down and talk to you, I think you can absolutely date someone who has a different political opinion then you.
What advice would you give to a girl who is dating a guy who is conservative, but is kind of just conservative cause the people around him are conservative, and doesn’t actually really know anything going on with the political current climate?
A lot of people are that way, and you have to understand that. A lot of people haven’t really informed their own opinions on it, it’s never an informed opinion on policy positions, but moreso how they may or may not feel about a particular candidate. There’s always an adage Americans go about where they say, “Oh, he seems like the kind of guy I can drink a beer with.” That should not be representative of whether or not you should vote for a person, but they think that’s enough for them, you know. They vote with their gut, they vote where their parents vote.
So, if you want to educate them on liberal positions, I think there is no better environment to do that than right now, where Democrats are essentially the underdog. We’re fighting against an oppressive administration that is doing a lot of terrible things that is constantly tripping all over itself. I mean, I follow this closely obviously, so it’s a little different, but every single day it seems like there is a new slip up. Whether it’s a Donald Trump tweet or as recent as where Sean Spicer decided, “Oh the wire tapping Donald Trump was referring to wasn’t actual wire tapping in the sense we believe it’s wire tapping.” Or, two hours before that, Kellyanne Conway talking about microwave spying.
It’s very easy to point out the flaws in this administration, but most importantly it’s easy to get politically involved right now. I think it’s kind of difficult for someone who maybe goes and attends the Women’s March or International Women’s Day, a day without women strike, and not feel involved or a sense of community. That’s definitely something that I would recommend, political activism at that level. It’s basically become the new brunch, so instead of going to brunch, take them out to a new protest. Tell them [to] be open minded, you know. “I promise good things will come your way in the relationship.”
Or another thing you can do is poke a hole in the condom and get pregnant, and then tell him, “Well, I can’t get an abortion because they defunded Planned Parenthood,” or something like that.
I told my boyfriend that if he voted for Trump then we’re using condoms for the rest of our lives.
So we’re on the same page then, but let me clear out the misconceptions about Planned Parenthood. Only 30% of Planned Parenthoods are actually providing abortion, now that number varies depending on how you analyze the data. But, in the end of the day, Planned Parenthood does so much more, so much more then just provide abortion. And in a federal funding perspective, that argument is null and void regardless because the current legislation does not allow federal funding to touch a single dollar on abortions to begin with. So, there are so many easy quotes people throw around that they’ve heard from someone else and that they’re just regurgitating someone else’s wrong opinions, and the reason why I addressed it is because we just made an abortion joke basically about defending planned parenthood, so I wanted to make sure that your readers are aware that that is not the only thing they do, it’s a minority of what they do.
Yeah, they know. So obviously you have a lot of fans that are happy to see a dude that is very woke, but it also helps that you’re hot. What’s the creepiest message you’ve received from a fan?
Oh my god, so a lot of the creepy stuff is already pretty public, and I don’t even think it’s like genuinely creepy, it’s more so like, “hey, we’re just playing along with this joke overall.” You know where it’s kind of like, “Oh, I saw four other girls say, ‘cut my throat with a chainsaw daddy,'” then they’re gonna say that as well.
That’s really weird, thats a weird thing to say, then people will say, “hit me with a baseball bat, daddy.” I don’t understand that level of affection that people feel, but overall yeah. The creepy stuff, I don’t know, I rarely go through my message requests cause that would take up a lot of time and also it would probably scare me. The most frequent one I get is, “Tomi may never DM you, but I will,” most times it’s usually something related to the videos. People think it’s a unique approach, but ironically it’s not.
Do you also get a lot of angry conservative people or is that less often?
Oh of course, so many. Especially on my Facebook page, I get a lot where people write on my wall “you’re a piece of shit douchebag, you’re a terrorist Muslim, go back to your country.” There was a time where someone went as far as creating a fake profile on Twitter where they were like,“Hasan Muhammad ISIS Piker.” You know, just making a page and making it seem like the same profile as mine praising ISIS and Allah. I identify as culturally Muslim, but I’m pretty much agnostic when it comes to practicing religion. My perspective on religion is not in favor of it, essentially. So yeah, that’s something that they did, but I know it’s coming from fanfare, or fanaticism, whether they love me or hate me, they’re doing it out of a place where they can’t get enough of it. Im sure you understand, I’m sure there are accounts that you hate follow or accounts that I hate follow, not like hate, hate is a strong word but you know — I just can’t stand how ridiculous it is, for example.
Definitely, so you have a series where you pick apart Tomi Lahren’s reports, what would you say to critics who say that you’re kind of filling a similar niche for the liberal side as Tomi Lahren does to the Republicans?
So this is the difference, I completely understand where people are coming from. It’s not a valid argument because I’m not talking about my feelings, I’m talking about historical contexts, facts. I’m using logical arguments. Essentially I do the same format with other stuff too, like Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway, the administration, there are a bunch of different targets that I write about, and it’s always the same idea where as press your supposed to hold the administration accountable. And if Tomi Lahren is going to be a talking head for the administration, I have to hold her accountable as well. But usually it’s not opinionated, it’s more so based on facts, and that’s something void of Tomi Lahren’s commentary, and it’s a necessity. It needs to be in all matters of commentary,you need to base your opinions on facts, or logic and reasoning, and maybe even empathy, which I think that a lot of people on the right lack.
Can you explain this further? Do you think that calling a woman “emotional” plays into negative female stereotypes?
Tomi plays to people’s emotions, and mostly fear. A lot of great commentators do this. The difference is, Tomi’s statements are not based in facts and rely on prejudices, biases and feelings. I’m not saying “she’s emotional,” as a way to discredit her. She has every right to utilize emotion to make a persuasive point. But what I am saying is that she plays into people’s emotions and does this in a completely non-factual, subjective way. Despite being an opportunistic conservative talking head, Tomi is an intelligent, strong, successful woman, and that’s something I admire.
You consistently hit on Tomi in your videos and ask her to DM you, which can be viewed as pretty sexist since you would likely not do this if Tomi was a man. How would you defend yourself against critics of this behavior?
I understand where critics are coming from, but I don’t think my treatment of Tomi Lahren has been sexist. If I were a gay commentator and found conservative male pundits attractive, I’d ask Tucker Carlson on a date. Would you consider that sexist, or is this notion based out of the remnants of a pre-established patriarchal social dynamic that women are not equal to men? Also, the “date line” was meant to be a joke. After the first couple of videos that featured it, I stopped saying it once I realized people were getting the wrong idea.
My intentions were never to belittle her. Some definitely took it the wrong way. Some blogs who do not agree with my political leanings took this as an opportunity to portray this completely misguided angle, rather than address the conversation points themselves.
As I mentioned, I thrive in open discourse, and love speaking to people with opposing viewpoints. In my opinion, this is the best possible way to broaden my perspective. This is precisely why I ask to have Tomi on the show to engage in discourse, and in no way shape or form mean to belittle her as a person based off of her gender. I will however absolutely deconstruct her ideas, which happen to be tired old conservative tropes with racist sentiment sprinkled ever so graciously throughout.
How do your videos kind of bridge the gap for people who haven’t been into politics until recently or don’t go out of their way to learn about current events?
I think making the content entertaining is a necessity nowadays. I think satire has always been a very important part of politics and political discourse… Political satire has always been an important part of my life and I think we see that with America as well with “The Daily Show,” John Oliver, Samantha Bee. My takeaway is that we are now responsible— whether we like it or not —for making informational news videos entertaining so that people can understand it. We’re competing against the Kim Kardashians of the world, and in order to remain relevant and get some sort of interaction going or gain any sort of following or momentum, you need to make sure your content is as entertaining as possible while still remaining informative.
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