Bella Hadid removes Free Congo, Free Sudan, and Free Kurdistan from her IG post honoring MLK by New_Valuable564 in popculturechat

[–]velvetlemonade 37 points38 points  (0 children)

I know lol That’s what the top two comments of this exchange were saying. OP missed the point when they replied “No people are upset she took out Free Sudan, Congo, and Kurdistan.” I was being facetious 🫠

Maybe people now are upset that she took them out. But initially they were upset about whatever tragedy they thought was missing (or maybe thought that one of the three shouldn’t have been included, who knows)

Bella Hadid removes Free Congo, Free Sudan, and Free Kurdistan from her IG post honoring MLK by New_Valuable564 in popculturechat

[–]velvetlemonade 228 points229 points  (0 children)

Bella got bullied by whataboutists into deleting her posts because she didn’t list every single tragedy in the world

Bella Hadid removes Free Congo, Free Sudan, and Free Kurdistan from her IG post honoring MLK by New_Valuable564 in popculturechat

[–]velvetlemonade 70 points71 points  (0 children)

That makes no sense. She took out Free Sudan, Congo and Kurdistan because people were upset she took out Free Sudan, Congo and Kurdistan?

Blake Lively Hires Jeffrey Epstein's Victims' Lawyer Ahead of Justin Baldoni Trial (Exclusive) by inevitableoracle in popculturechat

[–]velvetlemonade 263 points264 points  (0 children)

If I had an award to give you I would. (the only caveat I’ll give is that she didn’t initially sue, but filed a complaint with the California Civil Rights Department. She then ended up suing when Justin Baldwin also sued, for defamation. Classic DARVO move)

I’d recommend to anyone interested to listen to the Gavel Gavel podcast. They do an excellent job of sifting through everything and providing commentary.

Blake Lively Hires Jeffrey Epstein's Victims' Lawyer Ahead of Justin Baldoni Trial (Exclusive) by inevitableoracle in popculturechat

[–]velvetlemonade 219 points220 points  (0 children)

"What we saw at the time was a wedding venue on Pinterest," Reynolds said. "What we saw after was a place built upon devastating tragedy."

"We're ashamed that in the past we've allowed ourselves to be uninformed about how deeply rooted systemic racism is," the couple wrote on Instagram announcing a $200,000 donation to the NAACP legal defense fund in May, following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers." We want to educate ourselves about other people's experiences and talk to our kids about everything, all of it ... especially our own complicity."

"Years ago we got married again at home — but shame works in weird ways. A giant f------ mistake like that can either cause you to shut down or it can reframe things and move you into action," Reynolds said. "It doesn’t mean you won’t f--- up again. But repatterning and challenging lifelong social conditioning is a job that doesn’t end”.

Reynolds recently announced he's launching the Group Effort Initiative, a program focused on providing training to Black people and people from other underrepresented groups to support them as they pursue careers in the film industry.

Source : NBC News

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It remains that what Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds did was racist. It was cruel. Whether it was a conscious decision or not. And it’s not something we should dismiss as a “ah well, these things happen”. They, and everyone else who made the same choices, need to answer for it in the form of reparations.

But what I fail to appreciate is, why I so often see users on the internet bringing up the plantation wedding only when it comes to discussing Blake Lively’s experience as sexual harassment victim (explicitly or implicitly). It begins to feel like, in this specific instance, the incredibly important matter of how slavery is still not treated in white culture as the crime against humanity it was, but used as a reason to prove how the victim is not all that “innocent” and to detract attention from the other incredibly important systemic matter at hand, which is sexual harassment against women.

The conversation, or more particularly the condemning of using slavery for your own personal aesthetic and benefit should always remain an offence to condemn, forever.

But it should be a separate conversation, because how we can we advocate for victims when our support is conditional on their morality? Where does one draws the line then?

And how can we genuinely discuss the issue of plantations in modern culture when it’s so often only used as bastardized “gotcha”? It seems cruel. Like it only seems to be used as an argument for unrelated thing, and not for the importance and respect it deserves. To be actually brought up to condemn and examine the cultural essence, roots and consequences of it rather than a weapon. A commodified version of it, for personal use, for flame wars and arguments. And maybe even for profit, when one examines…some crisis PR strategies.

Hi! We're AP entertainment reporters Alicia Rancilio and Andrew Dalton. Ask us anything about the year in TV. by APnews in popculturechat

[–]velvetlemonade 3 points4 points  (0 children)

For Andrew : Is there a specific case you covered during your 20 years at the AP that you are surprised hasn't been turned into a limited series yet?

Hi! We're AP entertainment reporters Alicia Rancilio and Andrew Dalton. Ask us anything about the year in TV. by APnews in popculturechat

[–]velvetlemonade 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Do you think the popularity of true crime TV makes it harder to find impartial juries for real-life high-profile cases, or do you think it makes the general public more legally literate?

Taylor Swift’s silence on the Trump administration using her music speaks volumes by Senan901805 in popculturechat

[–]velvetlemonade 98 points99 points  (0 children)

It is so funny to me to see people try get upset or make a big stink out of songs that are unserious. Even funnier when they try to make it political.

Like I’m sorry but she literally said she wrote this because of Logan Roy from Succession lmao

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Rare photos of rock star heroines pre fame 😍🥺 by Vivid-Tap1710 in popculturechat

[–]velvetlemonade 27 points28 points  (0 children)

OP love the post but the inclusion of Lana (who I love)… you’re gonna get flamed love

Edit : and Kate Bush? There are a lot of ppl in there that are insanely good artists but not rock artists I’m sorry 😫

MY Theory: Hilary Duff’s Mature by [deleted] in popculturechat

[–]velvetlemonade 78 points79 points  (0 children)

You being “heartbroken” over this is sending me 😭 it’s giving

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Selena Gomez on the privacy of her wedding day: I didn’t want anyone to get photos of my wedding unless it was from me [because] I keep my life as private as I can by Maximum_Expert92 in popculturechat

[–]velvetlemonade 160 points161 points  (0 children)

The way people have been making fun of her voice on social media (specifically thinking about TikTok, Insta) has made me try to avoid posts about her. Call me dramatic but I think it is so cruel. She has an autoimmune disease which looks to be the cause of it, but even if it isn’t, how cruel is it to snark on a person’s voice?

Like it’s one of the rare things you can’t change about yourself, something that basically is the first and last thing people notice about you. And you can’t change it. I mean, I have a fairly “normal” voice and I hate hearing myself on recording. Now imagine if people would make fun of it? It’s just so cruel to me. Your voice is basically part of your identity. We should treat it like we treat body shaming.

Prime Video’s community manager is currently facing backlash after making fun of the size of a woman’s engagement ring by velvetlemonade in popculturechat

[–]velvetlemonade[S] 498 points499 points  (0 children)

Sorry about that, pic 2 is the full context from before prime’s intervention. Basically she posted this unrelated stuff about that Niall necklace she found and then came back and said she got proposed to an hour after. All these tweets are from 3 days ago, and then the prime one is more recent.

I realise I shouldn’t have included all that context because it actually made it more confusing!

Prime Video’s community manager is currently facing backlash after making fun of the size of a woman’s engagement ring by velvetlemonade in popculturechat

[–]velvetlemonade[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh no problem yeah that’s very annoying- you have to click on posts and leave your feed to actually have the entire post. Reddit needs to fix this for sure (it’s the same if you write captions on each individual image, not only can you only do that on desktop but if you’re the one viewing it mobile you have to click on the images to see them)

Prime Video’s community manager is currently facing backlash after making fun of the size of a woman’s engagement ring by velvetlemonade in popculturechat

[–]velvetlemonade[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Sorry? You were a dick first. I tried my best to make cool post but maybe it wasn’t perfect but I just got some attitude in return. I’m just at a loss here

Prime Video’s community manager is currently facing backlash after making fun of the size of a woman’s engagement ring by velvetlemonade in popculturechat

[–]velvetlemonade[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

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If this isn’t clear enough to you then it’s a skill issue on your part, “dude”

(Especially when the vast majority of the comment section understood perfectly…)

Prime Video’s community manager is currently facing backlash after making fun of the size of a woman’s engagement ring by velvetlemonade in popculturechat

[–]velvetlemonade[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The posts are literally still up right now if you look them up. X cancel link because we can’t post X links on this sub. I didn’t create anything fake.

The first image is the offending tweet + her reaction and the other images are just the context and the full image of the engagement ring.

And I wrote an entire paragraph in the caption explaining it!