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I’m Kieran. Host of @YouStartedItPod . Writer. As a Golden Globe nominee, I feel it’s my duty to make the real globe a bit more golden
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Millie Bobby Brown and now Billie Eilish are two underage girls who say Drake (a whole 32-years-old) texts them. This is troublesome. Something we should maybe sit up/pay attention to. Like...now. As opposed to later when we usually do, lamenting "we should have paid attention"
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Friend breakups (I mean good, longterm, very close and intimate friendships) are, in my experience, much more emotionally devastating than romantic breakups. And yet, unlike romantic relationships, we have almost no socialization (even in media images) on how to navigate them.
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And a baker's job is to bake. And a county clerk's job is to issue marriage licenses to people who legally qualify for them...do you see where the fuck I'm going with this?
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Little Caesars: It's hot and it's ready.
Me: Is it good?
Little Caesars: It's HOT. And it's READY.
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Halle Berry thanked her manager Vincent Cirrincione tearfully from the Oscar stage, calling him a father figure. When she learned he had been sexually abusing women in the industry, her denouncment of him was public, swift, unambiguous and in vociferous support of his victims.
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It's so fucked up that we're conditioned to accept that an employee quitting without notice is bad form while an employer firing an employee without notice is just fine. Even though in the former situation, the employer will likely not suffer and in the latter the employee will.
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Black people cannot “gentrify” country music because Black people invented country music.
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A vintage photo of the X-MEN cast where none of them are dressed like they're going to the same place.
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On “I Survived” all the men’s stories are like…bear attack. Or “I was trapped in an avalanche.” And all the women’s stories are like “I was doing a mundane thing I do every day and a casual male acquaintance I thought was cool stabbed me 10 times and shoved me into a ravine.”
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Wait...did a Trump supporter just accidentally admit that Black people face disproportionate police targeting and brutality?
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A law had to be passed in order for Black people to be able to wear their hair as it naturally grows out of their scalp. In 2019. I just want everyone to stop and consider this for a moment.
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Remember when Michael Bay humiliated her on set because she stood up to him and then he tried to ruin her career? I do...
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Rent that's not 85% the average monthly income.
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Me thinking about how folks literally want us to eat insects to save the planet and live in a sleeping bag in an 80-person loft rather than make Jeff Bezos pay taxes:
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Reminder: crying/adopting a victim stance as a response to being called out on abuse is a textbook gaslighting technique employed by abusers.
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I don't know too many of us who could survive the "crying while talking about how much you love beer" portion of the interview and still get the job.
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You know what’s romantic ? Knowing how HIV is spread in 2019, that it can’t be spread through a manicure, that a “screenshot” doesn’t trounce medical science and that empathy/kindness doesn’t include spreading misinformation about an already stigmatized condition. Swoon❤️
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This is how you leverage privilege for good. You speak up. You're mindful that the consequences of speaking up are not as grave as they are for people with less privilege. You make other equally privileged peers uncomfortable. This all may sound unpleasant. The work sometimes is.
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“Younger people are less racist. We just need to wait for the older generations to die off”
Younger people:
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Which was probably (I’m sure) very personally difficult and a working/interpersonal relationship she had to mourn. And Halle Berry did it anyway. Because that’s what standing by victims when you say you do looks like.
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Two days is not enough turnaround/recoup time from the 5-day/40-hour work week. It really isn't.
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I long for an industry where an actress brimming with this much raw talent, incredibly adept at internal psychology, subtext, layering several emotional reactions at once in a way that feels like (I said it before. I meant it.) 70s-era Rowlands level intensity is given her due.
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I bet they are a delightful mess when the family gets together.
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Jackée gave great speech at the Emmys 33 years ago. I love her "I wonder if I get paid more money for this" at the end. But the thing is...for white actors winning major industry awards like this, they almost always do. Any other actors? Not really. Still. Today. 33 years later.
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"My daddy alabaster...mama white as slave master. You mix that whiteness with that whiteness, get a career faster..."
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Ladies, if he:
-pops that gum one more time...
-can’t hold his arsenic...
-ran into your knife. He ran into your knife ten times...
He’s not your man. He had it coming. He only had himself to blame.
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I’m just going to say this. Maybe it doesn’t need to be said. But in case it does...white people, you cannot have our skin for research.
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It’s unpleasant. It’s difficult. It’s something hopefully none of us ever have to deal with, but unfortunately some of us will. It’s all of those things. But please don’t act like the answer to “what do you do when you find out someone in your life is an abuser?” is unknowable.
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Many Black folks surely wish we’d had confidence as younger people to refuse to accept white apologies for words/behavior that were ultimately unacceptable. And to be ungracious. No white apology is entitled to our acceptance. No white apologizer is entitled to our grace. Period.
Angel Reese rejects First Lady Jill Biden’s apology: ‘We’ll go to the Obamas’
(📹
@IAMATHLETEpod
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Like…it’s stark how many of the men’s stories are surviving nature or circumstance. And almost all the women’s stories are about surviving…men.
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But there’s none of that with friend breakups. What you have with each friend is unique. Functions uniquely. Doesn’t follow a “this is what it basically looks like” framework the way romantic relationships do. It’s losing something that, even in the abstract, feels irreplaceable.
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White people, not only is your “setting aside differences” with bigoted white conservatives you’re friends with not heartwarming/aspirational. It’s harmful. It’s a huge reason for this current moment. Your failure to hold each other accountable re: bigotry has stoked all of this.
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A white lesbian named Ellen who’s actually about some shit, understands systems of oppression and advocates for her community. We’ve never had this before, but I’ll take it. Kudos, Ms. Page.
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You know, we could have more dramatic turnarounds like this(and not just for rich white people, may we all live and be well) if we shifted our societal framing of how we view/respond to addiction. Just sayin...
How time flies. Robert Downey Jr used to be a drug addict since he was just 6 years old and from 1996 through 2001, Downey was arrested numerous times on charges related to drugs. But look at him now, one of the most successful actor ever. The legend, RDJ.
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This would be the same MOONLIGHT that made back 4x its budget at the box office despite being an R-rated independent film with a limited theater run and then won Best Picture at the Academy Awards? That MOONLIGHT?
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ADA Casey Novak’s jersey for the workplace softball league on “Law & Order: SVU” lives in my head rent-free…
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I’m the same age as Drake. I don’t even have a desire to text teenagers I’m related to. He’s such a fucking creep and he’s practically daring us to give a shit with the behavior he’s letting us see out in the open.
Millie Bobby Brown and now Billie Eilish are two underage girls who say Drake (a whole 32-years-old) texts them. This is troublesome. Something we should maybe sit up/pay attention to. Like...now. As opposed to later when we usually do, lamenting "we should have paid attention"
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\Berry, a survivor of abuse herself, knows the deal. She knows the fact that he never did it to her isn't the point. She knows it's not necessary to say because we'd have heard if she was among the accusers. And she knows what is tacitly implied in "well, he never did it to me."
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I also appreciate that Berry rebuked him for, as she saw it (correctly, I'd say) using her as body armor to lure impressionable young women of color looking for inroads into acting. What she *didn't* say was "well, he never did it to me." Perfect. Clear.
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One of my favorite bits of music trivia is that you can hear Minnie Riperton singing "Maya, Maya, Maya, Maya..." at the end of unedited album version (and some live performances) of "Lovin' You?" Because she originally wrote the melody as a lullaby for Maya Rudolph, her daughter.
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Tarana Burke, a Black a civil rights activist started the
#MeToo
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#MeToo
movement, long before 2017 when Argento publicly accused Weinstein
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And by the way...a 32-year-old man who we know is texting two teenage girls is never *only* texting two teenage girls. If you get my drift...
Millie Bobby Brown and now Billie Eilish are two underage girls who say Drake (a whole 32-years-old) texts them. This is troublesome. Something we should maybe sit up/pay attention to. Like...now. As opposed to later when we usually do, lamenting "we should have paid attention"
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He threatened to hurt her, returned and was circling the restaurant. This is in Oklahoma, a state with "stand your ground" similar to FL, which were key to George Zimmerman's defense and acquittal when he killed Trayvon Martin. We will hear crickets from his supporters on this.
Arby's manager fatally shoots customer who spat on her, police say.
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What’s your favorite audience reaction at the theater during a movie. Mine is the woman in her 60s(?) who shouted “OH MY GOD, SHE’S PREGNANT!” during CAROL in a scene where Therese is vomiting.
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I love how men talk about how Lori Harvey being “community property”because she dates, but not a word about fast-tailed Common who’s like an order of onion rings before a meal. Just out here for everyone. For the whole table. The double standard is obvious but still ridiculous.
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Remember when Buffy had sex with with Angel and he lost his soul and went on a murdering rampage? And she said to Giles “you must be so disappointed with me” and he actively refused to shame her? We stan Rupert Giles, our sex positive surrogate father.
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He’s the racist one right? I didn’t see shit.
Jeffree Star's Makeup Warehouse Burglarized, Millions in Products Stolen
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Halle Berry's public statement in early 2018 when news broke that her former manager, Vincent Cirrincione was an abuser:
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And it makes you so dismissive of the men. “I crashed my tiny little plane in Alaska and got stranded.” Well who the hell told you to fly a tiny plane by yourself in Alaska? For what?
What is the reason? This woman had her throat slit at her gas station job. Get out of here.
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With romantic relationships, whether this is healthy or not, there is the hope (however remote) of finding another person where you can enrich each other’s lives in that very unambiguous, modeled through societal messaging way romantic relationships function.
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If he changes the pronouns in songs during karaoke to make sure they accurately reflects his heterosexuality, break up with him.
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Yep. Look at the peace Black queer kids can have when they have parents that actually affirm and support them.
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In addition to the whole "what if it was your mother, your sister, your daughter? your wife?" rhetoric being reductive and gross, it underestimates how terribly and inhumanely a lot of men treat their mothers, their sisters, their daughters and their wives.
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When people say "history will not be kind" re: all of these white supremacist Republicans, I kind of think they don't know...well, history. American history as we're taught it routinely rehabilitates/repackages the legacies of white racists and turns them into heroes.
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Anyone: *disrespects, disparages or comes for Kelly Clarkson*
Black people:
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Ellen Page’s “no, actually I *won’t* take my foot off your neck” attitude when it comes to holding folks accountable re: anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry is the energy I’m trying to keep.
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I'm just saying...look at the entire inventory of facts we have at our disposal, use your brains and employ some common sense. In every situation. Because she's not wrong. Mind you, she didn't say that anyone is guilty of anything. She said what she said. And she's not wrong.
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Young James Earl Jones. For no reason and also for every reason. To bless your timeline.
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Pocahontas really passed up a snack who rarely speaks for a mediocre white man who literally never stops talking. Can’t relate. At all.
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The 40-hour workweek is closer to 50% or your *waking* hours. Studies have also shown that it’s *less* productive than a 32-week and has severely detrimental cumulative affects on bodily health and emotional health. People defend the 40-hour work week because they’re used to it.
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So many white liberals think their friendships with white conservatives are heartwarming examples of agreeing to disagree. I see a white person whose views negate my full humanity. And another wwho says they disagree, but doesn’t really care because they have no skin in the game.
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Cyclops: Okay, X-Men. We’re going into battle. Dress appropriately. Function over fashion, please.
Emma Frost:
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Go where they pay you most when they’re offering it. Employee loyalty is the mistake. The jig is up.
Job hopping is the biggest mistake millennials make in their careers
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US makes me think of all the Lupita Nyong'o led movies we could have had between 2013 (her breakout year) and now had Hollywood not had its head up its ass. Seriously, it's ridiculous it took this long for us to get a movie with her as a top-billed lead. And she delivers.
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I meant “worrisome” not troublesome. I was today years old when I found out that troublesome doesn’t mean what I thought it meant all these years. It’s definitely not a strong enough word in this context
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If y’all hadn’t slept on WIDOWS and let it tank at the box office, you’d have a nice .gif in your mind of Viola Davis shooting Liam Neeson to go along with your outrage right now.
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There was one episode where it was a woman surviving nature/circumstance. Lost at sea. But that was sort of surviving a man too because her male friend who got eaten by sharks is the one who accidentally set fire to the boat they were on…this show is a bummer. Good morning.
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(And when the men are talking about surviving another person, it’s a man they’re as well. And if it’s a couple who survived some deranged man together, most of the time it was the Angela Lansbury looking wife who got the survival plan in gear. Just some stray observations…)
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Those are two genres of music white people try to claim as theirs. Of their invention. And they police Black artists and fans alike who come into those spaces. When they should be on their knees thanking us. We own your history that you try to write us out of. You’re welcome.
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“Cancel culture” (as an apocryphal rhetorical concept) is the newest member of the same family that includes “reverse racism,” “misandry” and heterophobia is that it:
A. Isn’t real
B. Factually distorts power dynamics to favor the sympathies of those in power
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Still baffled by the decision to age Malinda Williams down to play a high schooler in THE WOOD only to have her character as an adult played by...Sanaa Lathan(?!) Who’s around the same age. Who decided this? What kind of brown liquor were they drinking? And how much of it?
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We need to talk about how a lot of men are pathologically obsessed with humiliating women. Even their own partners.
He threw her in the water. 👀 she spent $1000 on her hair. Plus she “almost died”.
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We need to stop facilitating and spreading the lie that “Midwest” is somehow a catch-all for “only white folks live here.”
Dem senator warns: Ocasio-Cortez's politics can win in the Bronx, but they can't win in the Midwest
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Who else has lotion they keep at work and lotion they keep at home? Is this weird?
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Gaspar Noé walked out of BLACK PANTHER after 20 minutes because he "hates R&B music" and I seriously have white people in my mentions saying this has nothing to do with anti-blackness. Man...European exceptionalism is a hell of a fucking drug.
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Two weeks notice. The societal programming that says it's proper etiquette for employees to give two weeks notice to an employer, but not the other way around is a scam.
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He literally looks like he’s a child actor playing the school principal in an Amanda Show sketch. And it’s very upsetting.
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Do the babies legs go inside your legs when you’re pregnant? Like snowpants?
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Men will demand why women didn't come forward about sexual assault and run them out of a country for doing so inside the same week.
Asia Argento Leaving Italy After Press Condemns Her For Accusing Harvey Weinstein of Rape
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Non-Black POC, you can (and should) advocate for representation and shine without waiting until Black people get something and then tacitly framing it as “why do they get this, but we don’t?”
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ethos of a lot of white people globally when it comes to Black people is “prove you deserve to live here.” And by “here” they mean Earth. “Prove you deserve to be alive. Show me.” That’s what a lot of y’all are constantly telling us, directly and indirectly. That’s the message.
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Keith David. I’ve been thinking he’s one of those talented character actors who’s been working for decades/has worked with everyone and is therefore a perfect candidate for that kind of JK Simmons Best Supporting Actor industry sweep if the right role/project ever comes along…
Name a great Black actor/actress, director or writer who deserves their flowers 🌹
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Nia Long appreciation is trending. Into it. This is what you call a perfect line-reading. (Try saying this ten times fast. This still makes me laugh):
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All of these actors looking perhaps the most attractive they’ve ever looked. In the same movie. Much ado. And not about nothing.
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What a misunderstanding to carry inside yourself for years...
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Now that I'm the same age as Lorelai was when "Gilmore Girls" started airing, I call total bullshit on the whole "I got a job as an inn maid at 17 with a baby, no high school diploma, worked my way up, I'm the executive manager now, I own a house before 30" science fiction story.
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Can we talk for a moment about how we need money to live, yet we’re scolded by employers (both prospective and current) when we ask questions and behave in such a way that shows we care about how we’re compensated? I have a story. Like to hear it? Here it go.
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I know her Oscar nomination came as somewhat of a surprise (she wasn't nominated at any other major awards that year) and I know opinion on this movie then *and* now is split (to say the least) but...Toni Collette was robbed of that Oscar. She deserved to win walking away.
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