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Alexis Ohanian Calls Out the Double Standard on Anger Between Serena Williams and Brett Kavanaugh


If you’re a woman, you’re already familiar with the double standards applied to us when it comes to expressing emotions. If you’re a woman of color, you know it’s even more egregious.

Alexis Ohanian, Reddit co-founder and husband to Serena Williams, called out that double standard in a Twitter thread, while also proving yet again that he wins at being the most supportive husband ever. Ohanian first responded to a tweet from Deborah Barros that said, “Funny how a black female tennis player is held to a higher standard to keep her emotions in check than a Supreme Court nominee.”

His comment was short and to the point, “It’s not funny, it’s bullshit.” (Williams, of course, was very publicly criticized by some for showing frustration over a number of questionable calls during her U.S. Open finals match against Naomi Osaka last month.)

But he wasn’t quite finished making his point and proceeded to get specific about the behaviors exhibited by Brett Kavanaugh in his testimony surrounding the sexual assault allegations made against him by Christine Blasey Ford. “Played the ‘father card’,” Ohanian continued. “Cried & screamed + Insulted everyone’s intelligence with lies about the definitions of phrases anyone with Google could debunk + Argued hysterically with sitting Senators, even going so far as to threaten them.”

“If you’re going to be a Supreme Court Justice — a job that requires maintaining sober judgement, it shouldn’t matter what questions you have to answer in your job interview, you keep it together.”

Kavanaugh did indeed cry, yell, and take a fairly menacing approach to being questioned on certain topics. So much so that he (or perhaps the GOP) felt something of a public mea culpa was necessary before the final vote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.

“I was very emotional last Thursday, more so than I have ever been. I might have been too emotional at times,” he wrote. “I know that my tone was sharp, and I said a few things I should not have said. I hope everyone can understand that I was there as a son, husband and dad. I testified with five people foremost in my mind: my mom, my dad, my wife, and most of all my daughters.”

These are the kind of arguments that society-at-large considers valid for men—not so much for women. Good on Ohanian for calling it out!

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Lana Del Rey Calls Out Kanye West: 'Your Support of Donald Trump Is a Loss for the Culture'


Kanye West stunned many over the weekend when he went on an impromptu pro–Donald Trump rant on Saturday Night Live. The speech was captured by audience members at the venue and quickly went viral.

“The blacks want always Democrats…. You know it’s like the plan they did, to take the fathers out the home and put them on welfare…. Does anybody know about that? That’s a Democratic plan,” West said, according to The Daily Beast. “There’s so many times I talk to, like, a white person about this and they say, ‘How could you like Trump? He’s racist.’ Well, uh, if I was concerned about racism I would’ve moved out of America a long time ago.”

Shortly after his speech, West uploaded a photo of himself wearing a Make America Great Again hat to Instagram—something he’s worn before—and gave another statement in support of Trump. “This represents good and America becoming whole again,” West wrote, in reference to his hat. “We will no longer outsource to other countries. We build factories here in America and create jobs. We will provide jobs for all who are free from prisons as we abolish the Thirteenth Amendment. Message sent with love.”

The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States, so naturally many were troubled by West’s caption. However, he doubled down with a tweet: “The 13th Amendment is slavery in disguise,” he wrote. “Meaning it never ended. We are the solution that heals.”

Many people aren’t happy with West’s posts—including Lana Del Rey, who left a comment underneath his Instagram that challenged the rapper’s views.

“Trump becoming our president was a loss for the country, but your support of him is a loss for the culture,” she posted. “I can only assume you relate to his personality on some level. Delusions of Grandeur, extreme issues with narcissism—none of which would be a talking point if we weren’t speaking about the man leading our country.”

Del Ray continued, “If you think it’s alright to support someone who believes it’s OK to grab a woman by the pussy just because he’s famous—then you need an intervention as much as he does—something so many narcissists will never get because there just isn’t enough help for the issue. Message sent with the concern that it will never be addressed.”

Check it out Del Rey’s comment for yourself, below:

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Del Rey has an interesting relationship with West. She actually sang her hit “Young and Beautiful” at West’s wedding to Kim Kardashian in 2014, and prior to this, West had an orchestra play a version of the song when he proposed. West hasn’t responded to Del Rey’s comments directly, but stay tuned.

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Khloé Kardashian Calls Out Trolls For Deleting Their Vile Comments About Daughter True


We know Khloé Kardashian is strong. She’s proven it hundreds of times over on live television, online, and everywhere else that the paparazzi follow, and this month, she’s demonstrated how deeply her resilience runs. Last week saw Kardashian standing up to internet commenters criticizing her five-month-old daughter, True, for not sharing the biracial characteristics of her infant cousins. Kardashian’s responses defended her daughter against the onslaught of colorism. Now, she’s calling out the trolls too cowardly to even allow her that.

“I dislike the fact that people are allowed to comment on my daughters skin color but as soon as I comment kindly back and praise her for all that she is, the comment gets erased,” Kardashian posted on Twitter. “If you have the courage to post your nasty criticism please allow one to defend or comment back.” Instead of reading her comments and, you know, trying to learn from them and grow as a person, the trolls are apparently deleting their comments when Kardashian responds to them.

“We need to learn to praise all skin tones/ethnicities!” Kardashian wrote. “Our beauty is in our differences. We can learn so much! So proud of every human who is confident in who they are. I’m in my 30s I think I’m just finding this confidence. So I am patient with others. But allow me to voice mine.”

The only thing possibly shadier than talking shit about a five-month-old infant is being so cowardly that when someone calls you out, you don’t have the backbone to stand by what you said. It’s the internet, so filth reigns everywhere—but the Kardashians built their empire off of owning their circumstances and not letting anything go unsaid. It must be unimaginably frustrating for Kardashian to put in the emotional labor of being kind to a troll, only to have her response disappear along with their words.

Thankfully, it doesn’t seem like Kardashian is letting the trolls affect her happiness.

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Hilary Duff Calls Out Paparazzo for Allegedly 'Hunting Her Down'


Though it can sometimes seem like celebrities live in a completely different world with its own set of rules, it’s important to remember that they’re still people and are just as entitled to their privacy and personal space as the rest of us. Hilary Duff attempted to get this point across over the weekend, when one paparazzo allegedly had been following her around for hours, making her feel preyed upon and “uncomfortable.” On Saturday she shared a video on Instagram in which she confronted the alleged photographer in his car and explained the situation in her caption.

“This guy has been at my [son’s] soccer game this mornin,g then followed me to my [sister’s] house and was basically parked in her [driveway] to get photos. Followed me to run errands,” Duff wrote. “This is not OK. I am [nine] months pregnant. When people say, ‘That’s what you get for signing up to be a celebrity,’ it honestly makes me sick. This is every day of every month, and it’s simply not OK. If a non ‘celeb’ (I’m sorry to use that word) was dealing with this, the law would be involved.”

In the accompanying video, the Younger star appears to have pulled up alongside the accused pap’s car in a parking lot to ask him to stop following her. “I’m nine months pregnant and I have the flu, and I’ve asked you once to leave me alone. Can you please stop taking my picture? You’re, like, hunting me down,” she tells him. He responds by saying he hasn’t gotten any photos of her yet. “It doesn’t matter. I’m just asking you to please leave me alone for the day,” Duff replies. “You’re, like, hunting me down.”

Amid his continued protests, she adds, “I feel very uncomfortable. Please, please leave a pregnant woman alone.” Missing every bit of the point, the photog retorts that he’s “lost [his] whole morning” following her around. “It’s not my fault!” she replies, and correctly so. “Please leave me alone. It’s the weekend, sir, please.”

Duff is far from the first celebrity to call out the paps. Kylie Jenner and Sarah Hyland both recently did so after feeling like their privacy had been invaded by photographers, and when photos surfaced of Bella Hadid hanging out with a friend inside of her own apartment last year, she tweeted, “Whoever thinks it’s OK to photograph into someone’s home and private space is straight-up sick, sad, and f*cked up.”

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Emmys 2018 Intro: 'We Solved It' Calls Out Hollywood for Thinking It Fixed Diversity Issues


The nominees for the 2018 Emmys are more diverse than ever, with shows like Atlanta, Insecure, and The Handmaid’s Tale racking up multiple categories. Sandra Oh is the first Asian woman to be nominated for a lead actress award for Killing Eve (which you absolutely should check out if you haven’t already). That being said, the industry still has a long way to go. While the nominations this year show we’re heading in a better direction, Hollywood is still by and large dominated by white men, both in front of and behind the camera. It’s important not to lose sight of that.

Don’t worry, though: Kristen Bell, Keenan Thompson, Kate McKinnon, Ricky Martin, Sterling K. Brown, and Tituss Burgess are here to make sure showbiz titans don’t pat themselves on the back too hard. These performers and more appeared in a musical intro at the beginning of tonight’s show that relayed an important message: Just because we’ve made progress in one or two areas doesn’t mean diversity is “fixed.”

Watch the first 30 seconds of the performance for yourself, below:

One of the highlights of the musical number was when RuPaul came on stage to hammer home the fact that a few LGBTQ+ people or actors of color appearing on hit TV shows isn’t the cure for Hollywood’s diversity problem.

Other memorable moments included when Thompson and McKinnon gave a hat-tip to Sandra Oh’s historic nomination and Oh just said, “It’s an honor just to be Asian,” in response. And at one point, Andy Samberg descended from the stage and asked if there was room for a straight white man in this song—and I think you can deduce how that (hilariously) panned out.

For more of our Emmys coverage, click here.

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Ivanka Trump Calls Family Separations A 'Low Point,' but Twitter Wonders Why She Didn't Speak up Sooner


Despite positioning herself as a champion for women’s rights, Ivanka Trump has repeatedly drawn criticism for refusing to speak out against some of her father’s most controversial viewpoints. (Remember SNL’s “Complicit” perfume ad?)

Most recently, critics noted how conspicuously quiet she’d been on the topic of the family separations that resulted from the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy. But on Thursday, she broke her silence and said the issue was “a low point” for her.

During an event with the news site Axios, Trump, who is also an advisor to the White House, shared her thoughts on separations at the border, which have splintered nearly 2,700 parents and children. An interviewer remarked that some administration officials have come to regard the policy as a “low point.”

“That was a low point for me as well,” she said. “I feel very strongly about that. And I am very vehemently against family separation and the separation of parents and children.”

She went on to describe illegal immigration as an “incredibly complex” topic, but didn’t offer further insight or potential approaches the administration could take. “These are not easy issues; these are incredibly difficult issues,” she said. “And like the rest of the country, I experience them in a very emotional way.”

Trump has been tight-lipped on immigration in the past. In 2017, after the president announced he would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, she again described the issue as “complicated” and called on Congress to act.

On social media, many people wondered why Trump has waited so long to to share her views about family separations, especially since she held opposing beliefs. According to some reports, Trump had donated $50,000 to a church helping to care for migrant children, but she never used her position to publicly denounce the policy while children were still being forcibly removed from their parents. She was even slammed at one point for posting what some called a “tone-deaf” photo holding her son amid the crisis.

In the same interview, someone also asked Trump if she believed the media was “the enemy of the people,” as her father has suggested in the past. She seemed to split from her dad yet again, claiming she does not share that opinion.

“I’ve certainly received my fair share of reporting on me personally that I know not to be fully accurate, so I have some sensitivity around why people have concerns and gripe, especially when they’re sort of targeted,” Ms. Trump said. “But no, I do not feel that the media is the enemy of the people.”

A few hours later, her father chimed in on the interview with a tweet that read, “They asked my daughter Ivanka whether or not the media is the enemy of the people. She correctly said no. It is the FAKE NEWS, which is a large percentage of the media, that is the enemy of the people!”

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