Women everywhere will crack up at this hilarious meme list. If you've ever suffered through PMS or spent way too much money at Target, these memes will definitely hit home.
Trump's proposed border wall is...an ambitious idea. Besides the political implications - xenophobic much? - it begs the question: just HOW would it work? Theoretically, a massive structure erected to prevent border crossing would be expensive, but that's not the only issue. During his presidential campaign, Trump's proposed wall galvanized his supporter base and inspired mockery among his critics. Trump is, regrettably, President Trump now, so as a nation we have to consider whether the project is even feasible. Enter engineer and 'court-accepted expert on walls' Amy Patrick.
Earlier this month, Amy penned a Facebook post breaking down the flaws in Trump's wall plan. It soon went viral thanks to its logical breakdown of the wall's potential drawbacks.
Amy's brilliant, yes? I have the distinct feeling that any diehard MAGA-type who's chanted 'Build The Wall' wouldn't even comprehend it, however - or would refuse to consider her perspective. IRREGARDLESS, the post resonated with people genuinely curious about the wall proposal and those fiercely opposed to it.
Thank you, Amy, for sharing your expertise and carefully examining a divisive (word play!) concept. We appreciate you and your work.
This is a sad, infuriating news item to cover that encapsulates so much of the division and resentment in our country, which is compounded by very short historical memory. Teenagers who apparently attend Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky were filmed harassing a Native American protestor demonstrating at the Indigenous People's March yesterday in Washington, D.C.
Footage of the incident has circulated widely on social media and people are expressing their disgust in no uncertain terms. Representative Deb Haaland of New Mexico condemned the students' actions.
'Horrendous' indeed. Sounds like their next capitol visit should be to the National Museum of the American Indian - which, naturally, is closed due to the federal government shutdown. Classic.
These memes are filthy and funny as f*ck. If you catch yourself laughing at this meme list, congratulations, you have a really dirty mind.
After taking a break from appearing on SNL due to mental health issues and a public post about suicide, Pete Davidson is back in full swing. He joined Colin Jost on Weekend Update last night, and brought his new pal and former SNL writer John Mulaney with him for a hilarious five minute riff. This is great news for me, a human woman who is inexplicably attracted to tall, tired looking men with large mouths and a knack for "doing bits."
If you're like me, you'll probably love this segment, in which Mulaney and Davidson go on a rant about Clint Eastwood's latest movie, Mule. Plus, Pete Davidson jokes about his mental health in a way that only he can. I don't want to spoil it or step on their jokes, because they really are great, so instead I will let you watch the full video here:
Mulaney and Davidson have been on tour together recently, and the chemistry they have developed from being on the road really shows here. They play off of each other nicely, with Pete as the "careless" young guy with a dark sense of humor, and John as the "square" careful guy who is very self aware. They're both a different version of goofy, and together they're the two best friends you wish you could be the third wheel to.
While the bit was clearly pre-written, it doesn't come off that way. Instead, it feels like we're seeing two friends passionately go off on a ridiculous movie they just saw.
And of course, there is the part where Pete Davidson addresses the fact that he made an online post about how he was contemplating suicide. Following up Mulaney's comment about how he had been showing Davidson how to lead a healthy life through example, Pete says, "And after observing John's life, I publicly threatened suicide." Davidson has a real gift for taking on the darkest parts of his life and making them humorous, and this joke is no exception.
We're glad to see that he is okay, and that he and Mulaney's adorable friendship has blossomed. Here's hoping for more screen time with these two.
At this point it's honestly difficult to keep up with all of the horrible things that come out of Laura Ingraham's mouth. But the Fox News host really out-racist-white-lady'd herself when she mocked a new House member's accent on her podcast last week. Yes, that's right. She made fun of the fact that a woman who moved to this country as a refugee at age 12 went on to become a member of Congress has an accent. Casual reminder that a person with an accent knows more than one language and all that shows is that they are smart, determined, and educated. But, of course, Laura Ingraham is too racist to realize that.
Ingraham played a clip of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) speaking out against the government shutdown, and then proceeded to say that she "sounds like Rizzo from Grease." And it doesn't stop there. She then takes it upon herself to do an impression of the accent, just in case you were wondering if this whole thing wasn't explicitly racist.
Omar is the first Somali-American to be elected to Congress, and is one of first Muslim members as well. She's received a lot of criticism and accusations from conservatives, which is sadly to be expected.
The fact that Laura Ingraham's immediate response is to make fun of her accent is not only disgusting, it also shows that she doesn't have a good argument to use here. If your reflex is to do a racist impression of your opponent, clearly you don't have anything intelligent to say. Wait...is that why Laura Ingraham is always saying racist things? Because she can't come up with anything smart? I think I might be on to something here.
It appears that our women-fearing, homophobic, Jesus Camp counselor of a Vice President, Mike Pence, is at it again, being shamelessly offensive.
With everything going on concerning the government shutdown, Pence just couldn't help but make it all much worse by opening his ignorant, hateful mouth. One day before Martin Luther King Jr. day, Pence dared to compare the values of MLK to those of our current president. MLK is honored today for championing equal rights, love, and acceptance among all people while Trump shut down the government because he wants to build a spiky steel barricade on our border. MLK fought for the future, while Trump is so confused about climate change he's trying to use the cold weather to invalidate global warming. Here's a list of similarities between Trump and MLK:
1. They're both human men.
That's it!
Here's a clip of Pence using MLK's quote, "Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy" to support Trump's border wall.
Nice try, Pence. This is a major swing and a miss. Plucking this specific quote out of the many great lessons MLK gave us is like a hungover college student trying to find the most vague scholarly opinion to support a totally batsh*t thesis statement. It's disrespectful to MLK's legacy and Pence, if he has the capacity for it, should be very ashamed.
Needless to say, the internet is not on his side.
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Pence, we suggest you go to a civil rights museum today, read a book, or search the internet and learn literally anything at all about MLK.
Cardi B and Tomi Lahren are in a Twitter war and you guessed it: It's about Trump.
While it's nice to see two famous women have an internet battle that's about politics and not whatever it is Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" is about, celebrities have a powerful platform that informs many opinions. With that platform comes great responsibility, and both Cardi and Tomi (sigh) are trying to use their voices to influence change.
The battle began when Cardi jokingly suggested on Twitter that Trump supporters should work for free during the government shutdown:
And her fans were obviously there for her:
However, the millennial meltdown of Fox News, was not:
Tomi Lahren, America's angriest bleach ambassador, used Cardi B's distaste for Trump to insult Democrats. Considering the biggest celeb Trump supporter is Kanye West, the Dems are welcoming Cardi with open arms and Tomi has no ground to stand on here. Then, things escalated.
It's not a great move on Cardi's part to promote physical violence, but considering this entire feud began with a joke, it's safe to assume this is also a joke...
It's unclear why Tomi is so upset that Cardi is expressing her political beliefs instead of challenging the beliefs themselves, but calling her moronic and then hashtagging #BuildthatWall isn't the best comeback. Tomi, you're supposed to be the youthful zinger of conservatives, what happened to your bite? Cardi then responded:
Then, AOC got involved:
And Tomi didn't like that:
I somehow can't help but think that if Tomi and AOC went to high school together, Tomi would've been Regina George and AOC would've been the class president.
When someone called out Tomi for accusing Cardi of inciting violence, she responded:
Tomi, you're missing the point here. Focusing on the fact that Cardi threatened to "dog walk" you, rather than focusing on the border wall makes you look weak. You're the one with the political TV show, Cardi is a rapper. So far, that's all the feud entailed, but something tells me this isn't the first time these women are going to clash.
Regardless of where you work, everyone knows there are some pretty dirty company secrets everywhere.
Whether it's a little lie like a bakery that says "baked fresh daily" but serves two day old products, a drunk bartender, or a luxury hotel that doesn't clean sheets, sometimes it's much better just not knowing what happens behind the scenes.
However, when a recent Reddit user asked the internet the question, "What's a dirty secret that everybody in your industry knows about but anyone outside of your line of work would be scandalized to hear?" people everywhere truly delivered. From waiters to doctors, mailmen to dentists--brace yourselves for a peek back behind the curtain of everything we currently believe to be safe. Read if you dare!
1. Furniture repair tips from "HippieJesus13."
When repairing furniture, a lot of times we just use a marker to cover up scratches. Granted they're carefully selected to match the color of course, but they're still just normal markers.
2. We don't want to know, "Bottleup3."
The actual price of eyeglass lenses
3. Sad news, "cruisefromottawa."
Almost all of the calls you hear on your local radio station are not LIVE. They were recorded during the last song or during a commercial break. There are many sneaky ways to make a call sound LIVE.
4. This is very upsetting, "Ego_Floss."
Parcels marked fragile are treated exactly the same as every other parcel.
5. Wait, protein supplements alone can't make me a bikini model, "overlyattachedbf?"
Those totally jacked-up personal trainers didn't get that way from the protein supplement they're trying to sell you.
6. Well this will haunt me forever, "bargainac."
Not really my industry anymore, but I used to work in a pet store (and now I work for a vet that works closely with several pet stores): if you’re in a pet store that sells snakes, there’s like a 75% chance at any given time that there’s a snake loose in there.
7. Ah, yes, "somePeopleAreStrange."
Drug abuse of every kind is normalized in the restaurant industry. It's crazy how many alcoholics/casual cocaine users I've worked with.
Although heavy drugs are very much frowned upon, people will boast about killing a bottle of expensive whiskey the other night.
8. But they're for sick people, "mamakf!"
Pharmacist here. Whenever pills get dropped on the floor, they get picked up and go back in the bottle.
9. Be nice to paramedics, "HeliosRises."
The folks in the ambulance with you, regardless of what you are being charged for care/transport, are making between $9.00 and $25.00 (no one I know makes the upper end) an hour. They genuinely care for your health/wellbeing (so long as you genuinely need their service), but could be in the middle of a 12/16/24 hour shift.
10. This makes sense, "Up2Eleven."
99% of tech support is using Google. Most issues could be handled by the user if they simply googled it.
11. This is a bummer, "seykuel."
Maybe not as scandalous as some things here, but I don't think people realize how wasteful live theatre tends to be. Some places make an effort to reuse materials, but even then there's a shit-ton of painted lumber, foam, and decommissioned props that go straight to the dump after the set's torn down.
12. This is nasty, "siel04."
We don't drain the pool after a kid throws up. We chlorinate the heck out of it. The bacteria are dead. We clean the crud out. But draining and refilling a pool would be waste of time and water. Seriously, though, it's clean when we're done. You won't get sick from whatever Charlie had before he upchucked.
13. Ahhhh, "myliltoehurts."
Few years ago I used to clean hotel rooms. It may have been unique to the company I worked for but we were ridiculously underpaid and given very little time to clean a room properly. It was common that if someone only slept a night or 2 in a bed it was just re-made without changing sheets. In rooms that had glasses (like actual glass ones) it was quicker to wash them in the sink than go for new ones. Even if that included wiping them dry with the same towel you used to wipe the last room's shower/sink/mirror with, or occasionally even toilet. Seriously, never drink of a hotel glass unless it's sealed in a bag.
14. I knew it, "littlefishsticks."
Perhaps not scandalous, but the urine pregnancy tests used in physicians offices and hospitals have the same accuracy as the cheap no-name brands you can buy at box stores. It’s a $45 dollar charge for the test where I work.
15. This has to be the truth, "GorillaonWheels."
Teacher, some of your kids suck.
16. Be nice to nurses, "imnotarobotbut."
Used to work in an emergency room. Everyone gets the same medical treatment, but I'll be sure to grab you an extra blanket/pillow/juice box if you're nice. If you're screaming profanities at me while I'm putting you on a bedpan, I probably won't come in to check on you as often.
17. Sounds about right, "Dethfiesta."
Some of your favorite artists are making extensive use of canned backing tracks at concerts.
18. Floss or be judged, "silvara."
Dental hygienist - we can 100% tell if you floss. Like don’t even bother lying honestly, it’s so easy to know who flosses and who doesn’t.
We've all heard of online dating, but have you ever heard of a father trolling his step-son by live-tweeting about his dating life? Allow me to explain...
Tricky-D (@DropsNoPanties) created a hilarious Twitter thread when he let his followers know that his step-son had a girl over for the night, and the boy's mom had yet to notice. Tricky-D live tweeted the whole event, making speculations about whether or not his wife would discover the girl in her son's room. The whole thing played out like some sort of teen romance thriller, so entertainment at its best.
And he really painted the scene for his followers while everyone waited.
This dude really committed to the documentation of this sacred event...
And he had some words for people saying he should be doing more than just observing.
He even asked his followers to interact. This is like a virtual reality experience! Honestly, he should have been charging viewing fees at this point.
And just when things started to feel anticlimactic...
BOOM, PLOT TWIST.
And then for the grand finale:
Personally, I think the mom knew. Moms know. Period. She probably didn't want to embarrass the young woman, but will be having a nice, long chat with her son later tonight, once he thinks he's in the clear.
Fox & Friends is under fire after the conservative news show displayed a graphic indicating the Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg had died. The problem here is that Ruth Bader Ginsberg has not, in fact, died. Sorry to have given you a momentary heart attack there.
The graphic appeared as a photo of RGB alongside the text, "1933-2019." So now we all know that Fox & Friends is in possession of a graphic that says RGB will die this year. This feels like when you accidentally text "Ugh, Ashley is being such a bitch right now" to Ashley. Both are a very awkward mistake to make, and both require an apology.
The Fox & Friends did apologize for their mistake, and cited a technical error in the control room as the cause for the mishap. Again, this is a lot like the texting situation with Ashley. You can totally say that what happened was an accident, and perhaps even happened due to some technical glitches (your fingers hitting send to the wrong person), but at the end of the day, you have been exposed.
"We need to apologize. … A technical error in the control room triggered a graphic of RBG with a date on it,” said co-host Steve Doocy. “We don’t want to make it seem anything other than that was a mistake. That was an accident.” And co-host Ainsley Earhardt chimed in with,“We apologize, big mistake.”
The timing here is, of course, terrible. Ginsburg, 85, was recently hospitalized after undergoing lung surgery to remove cancerous nodules. She has been working from home since then, and is expected to return to work soon. So, putting up a graphic that says she has died, just as she's finishing up her recovery, is not the best move. One could even call it the worst move.
Here's to hoping RGB lives forever, and that Fox & Friends learns how to keep their graphics to themselves.
Netflix is being roasted on Twitter right now for what could only be explained as either a very savvy prankster or a hilarious glitch.
When renowned etiquette expert, William Hanson, tweeted this confusing image of Marie Kondo's "Tidying Up" home screen, the internet rightfully freaked out.
Considering Marie Kondo is a cheery wood sprite with the disposition of a rainbow sugar cookie, seeing a gunman next to her name is an alarming image.
However, many people couldn't help but laugh at the idea of sweet, tiny Marie Kondo rolling into people's messy homes with a massive weapon as a method of intimidating them into getting their act together. Considering the image is in a desert, imagining Marie Kondo kidnapping unorganized people and dragging them by gunpoint to a barren wasteland is 100% a show I'd watch.
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Keep going Marie, this new method is probably very effective.
If you haven't watched either of the Fyre Festival documentaries, you need to move your booty over to Hulu or Netflix and get on it ASAP.
You'll quickly find yourself blessed by the rich narrative of fraud committed by entrepreneur wunderkind Billy Mcfarland, the innately dangerous power wielded by Instagram models lounging on a beach, and Ja Rule yelling motivational drivel into the abyss while everything falls apart at the seams.
Both documentaries provide truly delicious and disorienting schadenfreude via the the implosion of a luxury tropical music festival geared towards influencers and rich kids. But also, the documentaries equally show a tale of injustice for all of the exploited workers caught in the crossfire of the failed festival.
In true Twitter fashion, people online have been chronicling their experiences and reactions to all the behind-the-scenes juice, and this true story of greed, deception and social media clout has brought on the full range of human thought.
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The rhetoric and policies of the Trump administration are the antithesis of the civil rights movement in every conceivable way. And yet, without fail, several members of the Trump administration paid their respects on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the most cringe-inducing ways possible.
While the act of picking out the most embarrassing member of Trump's staff feels as futile as pinpointing the least healthy menu item at McDonalds, Sarah Huckabee Sanders definitely gave everyone a run for their money with her nauseating Martin Luther King Jr. Day tweet.
In a single tweet that simultaneously sums up the tone deaf nature of the Trump administration, the sanitization of Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy, and the cognitive dissonance of white people everywhere (myself included), Sanders thanked the late civil rights leader for "giving his life" to end racism.
People on Twitter were quick to correct Sanders and point out the obvious, that Martin Luther King Jr. did not "give up" his life, but more accurately was murdered by white supremacist James Earl Ray after a lifetime of being threatened by individual racists and government agents.
Sanders' historically inaccurate take was only exacerbated by the fact that her politics oppose everything Martin Luther King Jr. was fighting for, and the Trump administration is doing everything in its power to undo the progress that was hard won.
It's one level of cognitive dissonance to be an outright fascist and racist, it's another ballgame to do that while pretending to respect historical activists who hold the same values you decry today.
Fresh off saying on TV that he never said that there was "no collusion" (he said that there was no collusion), Rudy Giuliani continues to be the Barry Zuckerkorn of Bob Loblaws.
He said on Meet the Press that Trump's negotiations with the Kremlin over building a tower in Moscow were" going on from the day I announced to the day I won."
Rudes then told The New York Timesthat he meant that "as a hypothetical" (???) and he's know telling The New Yorkerthat Lordy, there are tapes.
Giuliani chatted with The New Yorker's Isaac Chotiner and this happened:
Asked again if there were tapes, Giuliani said, "No tapes. Well, I have listened to tapes, but none of them concern this."
He also denied saying that the negotiations lasted through the election (he said that the negotiations lasted through the election).
The best part, though, is when Giuliani suggested that he does indeed feel shame and worries about how becoming a Trump stooge will impact his "America's Mayor After 9/11" legacy:
I am afraid it will be on my gravestone. “Rudy Giuliani: He lied for Trump.” Somehow, I don’t think that will be it. But, if it is, so what do I care? I’ll be dead. I figure I can explain it to St. Peter.
Chris Brown used to be known as a singer and dancer, but he's primarily been known as an abuser since he assaulted Rihanna. He was charged with two felonies in the United States.
He has since taken his violence global, and was arrested in Paris on allegations of rape.
NPRreports:
The French magazine Closerreported on Monday evening that an unnamed 24-year-old woman has accused Brown of raping her in his suite at Paris' Mandarin Oriental hotel, during the night of Jan. 15-16. The woman told Paris police that she met Brown in a nightclub in central Paris earlier that evening, and that Brown invited her, along with other women, back to his suite. At some point in the evening, she alleged, she found herself in a room alone with Brown, and that it was then that he allegedly raped her. Brown's accuser also said that a friend of the singer and his bodyguard also abused her.
Au revoir, criminal.
Bradley Cooper is a handsome man who just wants to be taken seriously, goddammit! He starred in, wrote, and directed the new A Star is Born but was only Oscar-nominated for acting and writing. What the hell is this?
People are pissed, and assuming that he is, too.
Hey...the Oscars should have taken another look at you.
NBC Bay Area reports that Akiah Hasan, 26, of East Palo Alto, "walked into a house, then grabbed the resident's cellphone and started live-streaming her burglary over social media."
"She was inviting people over (to that house) for a party," Detective Rosemerry Blankswade said. "We didn't get a good explanation."
NBC adds that "Hasan stripped to her underwear, and then carried the cellphone into the backyard" and the continued the live-stream, which likely picked up more viewers at that point.
Like Bradley Cooper, she was also snubbed of an Oscar nomination for best director.
The video of a young Brett KavanaughMAGA hat-clad white kid smirked-down a a Native American elder as his buddies laughed and cheered was seen 'round the world and sparked outrage.
The kids came from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky, bussed in for the annual anti-choice March for Life. Nathan Phillips, a veteran of the Vietnam war and activist in the indigenous rights movement, said that he felt disrespected and the heard kids say, "build that wall."
Nick Sandmann, the kid in the video, naturally, released a counter-narrative, as constructed by a Mitch McConnell-aligned public relations firm (yes, they have public relations firms in Kentucky).
According to Future Supreme Court Justice Sandmann, the kids were harassed by members of the Black Hebrew Israelites, who also had event on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, and called them such things as "incest kids." They were then approached by Phillips.
"I believed that by remaining motionless and calm, I was helping to diffuse the situation," he said. "I realized everyone had cameras and that perhaps a group of adults was trying to provoke a group of teenagers into a larger conflict. I said a silent prayer that the situation would not get out of hand."
The scene, however, did not seem like one of silent prayer.
The media bought it, and gave the kids the exculpatory coverage they so desired.
Now there's the counter-counter-narrative, which can be summed up by Deadspin's headline, "Don't Doubt What You Saw With Your Own Eyes."
There are more videos coming out, and they don't particularly demonstrate a record of good behavior.
Good job, media!
The president, who famously blamed the Parkland shooting on the Russia probe and never defended the March for Our Lives kids from the relentless right-wing attacks, has waded into this matter.
Who needs the Republican spin machine when you have the president?
The video of a young Brett KavanaughMAGA hat-clad white kid smirked-down a a Native American elder as his buddies laughed and cheered was seen 'round the world and sparked outrage.
The kids came from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky, bussed in for the annual anti-choice March for Life. Nathan Phillips, a veteran of the Vietnam war and activist in the indigenous rights movement, said that he felt disrespected and the heard kids say, "build that wall."
Nick Sandmann, the kid in the video, naturally, released a counter-narrative, as constructed by a Mitch McConnell-aligned public relations firm (yes, they have public relations firms in Kentucky).
According to Future Supreme Court Justice Sandmann, the kids were harassed by members of the Black Hebrew Israelites, who also had event on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, and called them such things as "incest kids." They were then approached by Phillips.
"I believed that by remaining motionless and calm, I was helping to diffuse the situation," he said. "I realized everyone had cameras and that perhaps a group of adults was trying to provoke a group of teenagers into a larger conflict. I said a silent prayer that the situation would not get out of hand."
The scene, however, did not seem like one of silent prayer.
The media bought it, and gave the kids the exculpatory coverage they so desired.
Now there's the counter-counter-narrative, which can be summed up by Deadspin's headline, "Don't Doubt What You Saw With Your Own Eyes."
There are more videos coming out, and they don't particularly demonstrate a record of good behavior.
Good job, media!
The president, who famously blamed the Parkland shooting on the Russia probe and never defended the March for Our Lives kids from the relentless right-wing attacks, has waded into this matter.
Who needs the Republican spin machine when you have the president?
There's a new meme in town called, "You Might Know Me From," and it's particularly cathartic for anyone who needs to complain about their job. With all the stress of student debt, the current job market, and a politically divided nation, it's nice to laugh about our daily work lives every once in awhile.
The meme actually started, though, by poking fun at a different kind of job. With the popular Twitter account, @YourMomsucksTho and a funny tweet about the struggles of being a parent, a meme was born:
Nothing can stop highly relatable content, because people immediately started sharing complaints with a similar structure.
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The time has finally come for movie lovers everywhere to argue each other's faces off. The 2019 Oscar nominations have officially been announced, and per usual, there are a lot of feelings flying around in response.
Both The Favourite and Roma swept the competition with ten nominations each, A Star is Born and Vice followed close behind with eight nominations, and Black Panther also crushed it with seven nominations (which includes Best Picture).
While this is good news for many movie lovers, there are still a lot of people frustrated with the movies and actors left out of the running.
Many were bummed that Crazy Rich Asians was snubbed, and the beloved Timothee Chalamet received no nominations, Paddington 2 and Widows were also left out.
Even the Mr. Rogers documentary was left out of the nominations.
A lot of people were also not impressed with the fact that no women were included in the best director category, and well, a few of the key categories.
But still, as always, the Oscars nominations are a mixed bag and the announcement included plenty to celebrate.
These conflicted feelings will only boil hotter the night of the actual Oscars, when movie buffs across the world watch white knuckled to see if their faves get their due.
In case you haven't seen it yet, Cardi B's latest music video collaboration with City Girls is a tropical island full of women twerking and dancing and having the time of their lives.
While a lot of people loved the video and felt it was a fun female-powered utopia, others were left uninspired.
When the conservative video columnist Stephanie Hamill saw the video she was so turned off she tagged Cardi B in a tweet questioning the motives of the video, and more specifically, how a video showing nearly nude women dancing could be empowering.
"In the era of #MeToo how exactly does this empower women? Leftist, @Iamcardib, feel free to chime in. Thx," Hamill wrote.
In keeping with her request, a lot of women chimed to share the ways they found the video empowering.
A lot of people took the time to clarify that women dancing and being free with their bodies is the definition of empowerment, there are no men in the video, there is no male gaze - it's all about dancing and being free and unharmed.
Unsurprisingly, others roasted Hamill for not being able to enjoy a fun video and move along.
But the conversation truly reached its peak when Cardi B herself chimed in to clarify what she wanted the video to portray, and why women dancing and being free and shaking their butts is an act of empowerment and joy. Sexual expression in itself is not the same thing as being reduced to an object.
Needless to say, Cardi B's fans had the popcorn freshly popped and salted for this interaction.
While Hamill hasn't responded to Cardi B's response (at least not at the time of writing this), it's clear the floor is open for whatever rebuttal she may have in tow.
