Randa Jarrar is releasing a book!

The Return of Jarrar.

^ Now that? Would terrify me! 😂

[quote]Defender against cultural appropriation and friend of Roxane Gay

There's the kiss of death right there.

No kidding, R3. In fact, I'd say she's even more disagreeable than Gay. Last I saw of her, she was yelling at another author on Twitter because when Jarrar got attacked* for her article "Why I Can't Stand White Belly Dancers" this other author... wrote an article in support of her?

*I note most of the "attacks" were actually people just responding with facts to refute her badly thought out premise.

Is Randa Jarrar someone I should have heard of?

Nah, not really. It's more like, if you have heard of her, you might get a little laugh. If you haven't heard of her, you're probably better off 🙂

If people don't know of her, here's a picture of her torturing a donkey.

OP, who isn't releasing a book? What a waste of paper and reading time.

She's spent so much of her time complaining that nobody wants to publish her novels, even though according to her what she writes is better than anything else out there, and well deserving of a 7-figure advance. Now, I guess she can't complain anymore as someone is publishing this book, though I highly doubt it's for that much.

Pretty much anything she writes is a waste of reading time:

Another loser piggybacking on the anti-white trend.

You just know it's eating her up inside that she doesn't have the kind of engagement on Twitter that gal pal Roxane Gay does. She says supposedly controversial things and no one bites. She's now resorted to reposting the petitions calling for her to get fired back in 2018 and talking about how proud she is of herself for getting through it, and still barely anyone is commenting, haha!

Does anyone know what's happening at Fresno State? Jarrar has now closed off her Twitter to just followers and her followers are tweeting things like: "How they treated you was horrible" and "So EXHAUSTED!" and all this sympathy, but I have no idea what they're talking about. Is Jarrar getting fired?

I was going to offer to blurb it, but then i realized I was too exhausted.

I'm legitimately curious about when white people will eventually decide enough is enough. There's always a straw that breaks the camel's back, but I'm just curious about when the back will break and what the straw will be. What will be the final jenga block to be pulled out and topple the woke tower?

R14 that made me laugh for a good 2 minutes, thank you. I don't know what it is, but the Roxane Gay mentions never fail to tickle my funny bone.

R15, what worries me is that there will be a pushback of the kind that scoops up all legitimate concerns about racism with it, so that it is all viewed as being ridiculous and thereby easily dismissed. I have wondered myself what is going to be the straw that breaks the camel's back, and I do think the Adele thing was a minor preview. Thankfully that was led by black people around the world who were tired of being lectured to by ignorant people of any background.

Re: R13, apparently Fresno State has hired someone who is white but pretending to be Arab and this caused Jarrar to have a bit of a meltdown because the school is supporting this person, when she feels they didn't support her when she was getting attacked for her Barbara Bush comments. But she didn't go on private because of this, instead it's because she got hate mail. Which she then proceeded to share on Twitter, and it's now public. Which is a... choice, I guess.

The hate mail is actually pretty hilarious, because it's so badly written, so pathetically trying to offend, that it seems like it wouldn't cause you to do anything but roll your eyes and move on, but then again, it wasn't directed at me, so I can't say.

I suspected what her attitude would be, but out of interest checked out her name along with "Charlie Hebdo" and I wasn't surprised. But I did laugh when someone wrote about her:

"One PEN dissenter, novelist Randa Jarrar, demonstrated her grasp of the subject matter when she referred to “Charlie Hebdo” as a person who had unconvincingly denied “his” racism."

Oh dear, looks like Jarrar has put her foot in it today! 😂 Some of the responses underneath are hilarious!

Randa! I mean Mary!

[quote]Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat woman. Randa Jarrar is all of these things. In this provocative memoir of a cross-country road trip she explores how to claim joy in an unraveling & hostile America.

As a proudly Fat womon, would I still be useful on garbage detail?

Why does everyone want to be healed now? Life was way more interesting when people were damaged and knew they couldn't do a damn thing about it.

It's just more navel-gazing, at the end of the day. Me, me, me, me, ME!

All the belly dancers in the US would have to give it up and get real jobs, if they weren't able to teach white women who want to work on their abs.

Plus, plenty of belly dancers from the middle east have gone on record saying they love that western women are taking it up. Rather embarrassingly for Randa, her idol Fifi Abdou is one of these women who have gone on record praising western women belly dancing.

As part of her self-promotion for this book, she's retweeting her article (and mentions of it) from a few years ago about being turned away from entering Israel. I could be out of line suggesting this, but I read the article and knowing that the advice at the time (and possibly still now, I'm not sure) from the US government was that if you were Palestinian you should enter via Jordan because you wouldn't be let in through Ben-Gurion, it does make me wonder if she set this up just to have something to write about/be the victim about. That's not me discounting discrimination that happens, but there's something about this woman that seems like she is continually doing things like this: creating a situation and then acting hard done by by it. Plus she got belligerent with the staff (threatening to urinate on the floor) and told lies about why she was going to Israel, which is going to make anyone customs officers suspicious in any part of the world.

Still, I suppose that is a long flight to go on just to make a point. It just seems weird to me if she wanted to visit her sister, why she didn't go the route of more likely success than the one where she clearly wasn't going to get in. And then if she'd been turned away still, she would've been sent back into Jordan, and could've holidayed elsewhere like she wanted to, rather than have to go all the way back to the US. Perhaps she's just dumb.

R22, I know, right?

Plus, I'm not sure how healing that trip was, considering she was crying on Twitter only a couple of days ago that hearing about the Jeffrey Toobin thing had "retraumatised" her and he must pay!

"Why does everyone want to be healed now? "

People whose primary focus in life is complaining about trauma and discrimination on social media don't actually want to be healed. And this chick, she's trying to write books about her suffering, happiness and peace of mind would ruin all her career plans!

But the social media "activists" can't say that out loud, they have to pretend they want healing.

Exactly right, R28! It's a business for them, and in addition people like this woman seem to think being the biggest victim in the room allows them to say really unpleasant things about others (often crossing over into racism and antisemitism themselves) without it being a problem. And anyone who has those pesky little facts that contradicts the things she says are just proving her point about what a victim she is, apparently.

"Arab femme daddy of my dreams"??! What kind of blurb is that? Why Gurba insists she should be taken seriously as a writer, I'll never understand.

ROFL. Someone's been reading their Goodreads reviews!

[quote]lazy critics say my work is disjointed or fractured. Duh. “Cohesive” stories are told by cis hetero whites. I love fracturing your cohesion the way empire continues to love fracturing me. Watch me disjoint your narrative. Cry about it elsewhere.

¡Qué ego!

Ew! She's created an OnlyFans?

[quote]lazy critics say my work is disjointed or fractured. Duh. “Cohesive” stories are told by cis hetero whites.

News to us.

ROFL, exactly R33!

It's not her fault that she's a shitty writer! It's the patriarchy! 🙄

Everything has been commercialized including politics and civil rights activism. The right wing has their asshole pundits and the Liberals side has its fair share of Ann Coulter type of provocateurs who say shit for attention which results in book deals and speaking engagements.

I fully believe in equality and civil rights for everybody, but I don't believe in any side lecturing me how I am worse than Hitler for being who I am.

When it comes from a so-called Liberal source I just dismiss it as actually coming from a right wing plant trying to "divide & conquer".

[quote] I fully believe in equality and civil rights for everybody, but I don't believe in any side lecturing me how I am worse than Hitler for being who I am.

This is where I come down too. And I don't dismiss at all that the playing field isn't even, that is something that needs to be worked on. But carrying on like we're all evil and engaging in tit-for-tat isn't going to help us move forward to a better place. It may not be fair, but the alternative of people like Jarrar is only going to provide them with a momentary feeling of satisfaction at having got revenge, and then feel very hollow and empty, with no good coming out of it for anybody.

Unattractive, untalented, overweight woman screaming at the world for attention.

"Ew! She's created an OnlyFans?"

ANYTHING to put off having to get a real job.

"... memoir of her travels across the US."

In a Volvo wagon or Subaru Outback?

Tale as old as time, R37. I mean, this is the woman who took a 10+ hour flight to Israel to purposefully try and trick immigration, knowing she would be sent home, just so she could be a big victim about it when she wasn't allowed in. She's insane.

Randa is yet again the victim. But surely there have been many novels about sex that are also considered literature? I think it's more that her writing isn't up to par.

[quote]i find it interesting that straight people can write at length about tennis and it’s considered literature but when we write about sex it’s porn. i’m like, ma’am, did you just admit that my work made you cum?? i was simply making art about things bodies can do.

Randa summing up this book:

[quote]Why wouldn't a chick who dealt with abuse the first 20 years of her life then spend the next 20 years of her life cumming? (My memoir in one sentence)

Another one of these NPD type women, using 'queerness' as a tool for attention. So boring, and of course she was married to a WHITE CIS MAN!!! fucking trash

Her whole shtick is "how can I get the most attention for being the biggest victim in the room at all times?" I'm surprised Roxane is able to be friends with her without getting SO EXHAUSTED.

[quote] Is Randa Jarrar someone I should have heard of?

No, R5. OP scoured the internet for a topic he thought would be good for an inflammatory thread.

Impact = 0/10

Broken person alert at R45!

Her recent rant on Twitter clearly comes from reading her GoodReads reviews:

[quote]There were moments of this book that took my breath away with their truth and beauty. I wanted to love it because of those moments, as they spoke to what I had expected: the memoir of an queer, Muslim immigrant woman fighting to forge her identity in the United States on a road trip. Unfortunately, in the long run, Love Is an Ex-Country seemed to me to be more of a chronicle of sexual exploits, graphic abuse, and unhealthy relationships. The darkness and pornographic elements were too much for me to enjoy the book as I thought I would. Jarrar's words can be gorgeous, compelling, and extraordinary; ultimately there weren't enough of those words to get this book where I felt it could have been.

She's needing a bit of attention today:

[quote]i remember when i was a breitbart cover girl

This woman seems to have a real hatred of Gal Gadot, she spends a lot of time tweeting angry things about her.

[quote] the anti-white trend.

R11 This trend has become a plague amongst ordinary suburban middle-class milky-skinned millennials.

R49 LOL! I bet. Wonder why??

Hehe, R51. Actually, I can imagine there is more than one reason.

"Queer"

rolling eyes

^yeah I'm pretty sure that's in name only for her. I could be wrong, but I think she pretty much exclusively dates men.

[quote]Funny, fierce, and full of joy and pain, Randa Jarrar's memoir chronicles her 2016 road trip across America, as she drives from her home in California to her parents' home in Connecticut. Her encounters along the way — from Tinder hookups to encounters with racist truck-drivers — serve as catalysts for Jarrar to explore everything from her identity as a queer Palestinian-American to her experiences with domestic violence and bigotry. There is catharsis in reading Jarrar's words, they feel alternately like howls and whispers, an impassioned, necessary response to what it means to live in America today

Randa Jarrar is totally a Star Wars name

Hahahaha, R56. She kinda looks like a Star Wars character too.

Jabba Jarrar

I like how "Fat" is capitalized in her author bio in the OP, like our beloved Fat Womon on Garbage Detail.

She strikes me as one of those people who throw those adjectives to describe themselves in people's faces because they want to get a negative response and then be aggrieved by it rather than just being proud of who they are.

[quote]like our beloved Fat Womon on Garbage Detail

Fat WOMXN, R59, GOD!

Looks like she's writing a script for a movie now. Three guesses as to what the movie will be about.

I'm guessing the movie is about an insufferable person with NPD!

Oh, undoubtedly, R63. But she will described as "fierce", "proud", "brave" and "royal".

One draft penned and Jarrar is primed to give advice on the film industry now:

[quote]i saw let them all talk and... are ppl really making movies in 2021 about white people who do a trans Atlantic Crossing and where the only two characters of color are sexualized and then relegated to healing roles? yes they are.

[quote]I also read an interview that made it clear that Deborah Eisenberg did not write a script of any kind but an outline. It’s been difficult being a literary writer and seeing people worship this woman for her lazy writing

Jarrar is one to talk about lazy writing, considering how lazy the research (and for "lazy" read: "non-existant") was for her article: "Why I can't stand white belly dancers", where she claimed belly dancing belongs to Arabs, when the roots of belly dancing predate the Arab conquest of Egypt, and it is also part of the traditions of non-Arab countries like Iran, Turkey, and the predominantly white Bulgaria.

Why don't supporters of the transtapo bitch about "gender appropriation" since clearly the whole movement is based on performative cosplay of strict gender stereotypes and instructing women how to be women properly by "people" with a penis?

Do I go to Chinatown and sternly explain just how Chop Suey is concocted? No.

Huh? 😂😂😂

[quote]hear me out: charlie and the chocolate factory but it’s a winery tour

[quote]With Charlie as a hot femme and Willy W as a nonbinary daddy

Randa wants a do-over:

[quote]It’s. Not. Over. Dismantle everything please. Especially whiteness.

It’s preferred pronoun is it. Please be respectful

Randa has released excerpts from this book and is giving herself praise for her exploration of fatphobia. Here she is talking about it:

[italic]My second husband did not want me to be on top. He made sounds, squirming and uncomfortable, when I was on top. He told me a year after we'd gotten together that my body crushed his. His body was smaller than my body. One afternoon, in bed, he nonchalantly told me that I needed to lose a hundred pounds. To shrink myself for him. (Conceivably) to be his equal. I would marry him, cry for years, and leave him, before I realized he did this because he could never make himself big enough--intellectually, financially, sexually--to be [/italic]my[italic] equal.

My father stopped letting me sit on his lap when I gained weight. He said he would let me sit on his lap if I lost weight...[/italic]

And so it goes on. Is it just me, or is that story more about how she was [italic]crushing the life[/italic] out of her husband, but she's made it sound like it was all his problem that he was struggling to breathe while she was on top of him? Being shitty to someone because of their size is horrible, telling someone you can't have their weight on you when it is hurting you is not the same thing. And so she goes for the low blow, insulting all the parts of him she knows will hurt (his financial status, his sexual prowess) to spite him for making her think about her own unhealthiness.

Oh, and the writing is really not good. She sure has delusions about her abilities.

Oh jeez, she's going to be in conversation with DL fave Roxane Gay on Feb 4. Could be good for a laugh, though not sure I could stomach it at the same time, haha. They can talk about the horrific violence perpetrated by men when these men say their bodies can't take a woman their size on top of them.

[quote]"If you have ever felt lonely or horny or angry or magnificent ... this memoir is for you. What a boon it is, a perfect, unforgettable howl of a book." —Carmen Maria Machado.

All these reviews aren't saying anything that actually makes you think you might want to read this.

Apparently this book isn't even a road trip, it's just her blathering on about her life. Don't you have to be somewhat famous before you write a memoir?

Hahaha, she's held an event with Roxane Gay (natch) to launch the book. There is one whole like on the Tweet so I guess people weren't that interested?

I plan on reading 'Travels With Charley' soon. I love John Steinbeck and I so fucking love everything to do with being on the road in America!

Well, at least that is a book about an actual road trip, GGG. Jarrar's sounds like it's just her whining about her life, while not really going anywhere. Well, except for a trip to Israel that she got sent home from (in what seems like a deliberate move on her part so she could whine about that too).

If she is truly "queer" I dare this attention whore cunt to have sex with Roxane Gay. One of the two hippos will crush the other dead and then roll over EXHAUSTED! She can go fuck herself with a rusty chainsaw.

Bwahaha, R76!

This GoodReads review is very good, and gives you a good idea of what to expect. I think this line best sums it up:

[quote]This was just more along the lines of a reaction of a morbidly obese person sitting next to you and oversharing obscenely, TMI style, all the while expecting to be somehow admired for this.

Obese woman with no talent wants even more attention than she deserves. News at 11.

I believe she grew up pretty wealthy, so I wonder how much of her thing is coming up with random things to be aggrieved about so she can feel less privileged than she is?

It's depressing how many "writers" these days come across as barely literate.

Good point, R80. I haven't actually read any prose from writers like Jarrar, or Gay, or Gurba or any of these people that doesn't sound flat and uninteresting. And what's funny is I've seen both Jarrar and Gurba brag online that they are better writers than established authors and the only reason they don't get published as much and make as much money is racism.

[quote]My new book is about surviving war, domestic abuse, statelessness, and death threats all while dancing, fucking, and moving through the world with radical joy! Let me read you my story this weekend:

This bitch is whiter than Gal Gadot whom she clearly is jealous of.

What racism? Bitch is white!

Absolutely, both R83 and R84. She sure does have problems with Gal Gadot, so much so that it's kinda hilarious (if not a bit sinister in some respects), and she's always going on about "white people" as though she wasn't one herself.

[quote]I plan on reading 'Travels With Charley' soon. I love John Steinbeck and I so fucking love everything to do with being on the road in America!

Don't be disappointed when you realize he made most of it up.

Hmm... apparently she's been interviewed by Shondaland over this? Will Shonda turn Love in an Ex-Country into a best Netflix seller? Who will play Randa?

At least the article admits up front that this is not a road trip memoir, that that is only for marketing purposes (weird sort of marketing, claiming the book is a completely different type of thing from what it is, but ok). What's funny is that straight away Jarrar shows her ass when she brags about how she is a Muslim, but she is the type of person who also borrows religions and spiritualities. Under her own standards, wouldn't that be the type of cultural appropriation she was screaming at people about in her attacks on white women belly dancing? She and her friends (Roxane Gay, Myriam Gurba) are so interested in telling everyone else off for being bad, but for all that they talk about themselves too, they never actually go that deeply into analysing their own thoughts.

For someone experiencing radical joy, she seems to be an awfully bitter cunt.

Groundbreaking.

🙄 She's so revolutionary!

[quote]SN: This book is nonlinear, like so much great literature. What are your thoughts on linearity in storytelling?

[quote]RJ: I think linearity is a way to control the world and it's also kind of insulting to readers. For me, linearity is too simplistic and doesn't actually represent reality, but is a controlled way of conveying a story. I loved being an undergrad and reading all this amazing feminist theory about how linear storytelling is phallic. And it's also not what women's orgasms are like, which are circular. The idea that storytelling actually mimics our bodies, too, is really cool. With this story, I didn't want to straighten myself out. There's also a lot of queerness there. I just wanted to have the reader be as disoriented as I am constantly.

She’s wrong, linear storytelling is transphobic not phallic

These questions sound like she wrote them and gave them to Shondaland to ask her.

There's an element of "Why, thank you for that question, Shonda!" about that interview.

Haha, apparently she's now going through GoodReads and attacking people who give this book a low rating, and also creating sockpuppet accounts to accuse them of being all sorts of phobic because they didn't like her book. And the reviews are actually pretty fairy and balanced all up (ie they're not just being nasty). This woman is so weird.

^pretty fair* not fairy, haha.

Mm-hmm. I'm so sure.

[quote]Every time I drive my car (a convertible) alone, a man makes sure to stop nearby to tell me how sexy I am. I always respond with, "I know." Stop mansplaining my hotness to me, LA creeps.

" This is a book made on and by the loom of my body. It is "meandering," disorienting, and non-linear on purpose, as it is a reflection of my own body and experiences as a refugee and a survivor of assaults. If you sense that the book is for you, it was truly written for you."

I always find it so weird when author's give themselves a five star review of their own book, but grifters gotta grift, I guess.

Oh good god, the two of them talking together is going to be quite... something...

Okay, has she actually had sex with another female? Or is it calling myself queer because I will get on anything?

What is her problem with Gal Gadot? Tall, beautiful and thin? Oh, married with2 kids now pregnant with a 3rd?

Hmmm... This all sounds very "I HAVE SEX!" doesn't it?

[quote]To the shock of everyone who knows me well, my 1st post-vaccine activity will not, I repeat, not be a threesome.

[quote]I thought I would go nuts but instead I'm literally just happy I didn't die of covid and he lost the election.

[quote]My last threesome was election night, not gonna lie

She so thinks she's edgier than she actually is.

R97, Based on what she's let slip, I'm pretty sure she either hasn't had sex with another woman, or perhaps just experimented briefly. She comes across much more as someone who says they are "queer" to seem interesting, rather than actually being sexually open. Or perhaps she takes anything she can get? She's a narcissist so finding herself endlessly fascinating is no surprise.

Re: Gal Gadot, I think the tall, beautiful and thin part definitely plays a part, particularly as Gadot is an Israeli and Jarrar's ancestry is Palestinian. Awhile ago when Jarrar was complaining about Gadot being hired to play Cleopatra, it really did come across like she was both jealous of her looks and annoyed at her heritage. People called her on it though, it was quite funny. The part that made me laugh the most was her starting off with: "Yes, Cleopatra was Greek. I get it. But..." when you know she didn't realise this herself until she saw other people saying it on Twitter. Some of the responses were quite funny, as I said, and I've attached the thread below.

All that to say, Gadot really does seem to trigger her.

I'm not sure I could take the extreme ValSpeak going on between the two of them at R96. They both have such grating voices.

Required reading for Womyn’s Studies 101 I’m sure.

r89 she is sooo full of it.

In my opinion, the greatest novel in world literature is Anna Karenina (but of course I have not read all the novels!). Its genius comes, in part, by Tolstoy's magnificent mastery of plot and character within the confines of a linear structure. Indeed, the tapestry of human life that he weaves is both linear and yet, somehow, seems to defy linearity.

Linearity in narrative requires discipline, Ms. Jarrar.

Is Randa a DLer?!

"Required reading for Womyn’s Studies 101 I’m sure."

R101, you must have missed the memo that "womyn" is now considered to be a "TERF dog whistle" (as is "womxn").

R99, Wow that was an interesting to read. Yikes!

R102, exactly! You get the feeling with her that she can't actually do it, so she claims her failure is her intention all along. Also, she was complaining about how linearity is solely a "white male concept" once, and rather hilariously people responded with authors that didn't fit her arguments, hehe.

At the end of the day, she was just hurt because someone on Goodreads didn't completely love her book, so she acted out.

R105 yikes indeed!

Oh and just revisiting that thread myself, R105, and burst out laughing at this one. Suuuuuuure, Randa. None of the responses believe her either.

R106 and R 107, I always wonder how these people are in real life? The same? Only have fellow sycophants as friends? Exhausting?

Just reading those tweets, whew.

I'm often curious about that too, R108. I bet a lot of people like this are less upfront in person. I have heard Myriam Gurba is quite sweet in person (though at the same time she was escorted off her last job for being 'disruptive', so...). Jarrar seems generally disagreeable though.

They seem to be the type that make huge leaps in logic and use that to judge everyone. So a guy who says: "I like watching James Bond" will have them say things like: "Of course he would like a misogynistic character like Bond!" and then make that person persona non grata with them. If you get what I mean? So, I think they feel much more comfortable surrounded by sycophants. I don't think Jarrar has as many supporters as she would like though. She's nastier than either her pals Roxane Gay (who you could argue has her heart often in the right place even if she lets her exhaustion get the better of her), or Gurba (who has a sense of humour).

Alright, which one of you bitches is responsible for this?

"We discussed sexy ancestors..."

"Womxn Writing Truth" - who wants to be the one to tell whoever created this that the etymology of "men" isn't male but all people?

I tried, but the vocal fry and Californian intonation is too much. Maybe others will have better luck watching this. Also, what the fuck is Jarrar wearing around her head?

Oh god, but just to say I did get to the part around 15 minutes where Gurba brings up and starts praising "Why I Can't Stand White Women Belly Dancers". Of course Jarrar avoids all discussion of the fact that her argument was based completely on a false premise. 🙄

She also refers to her own writing as a "gift". Good grief.

And Gurba seems unhinged.

"I only exercise doing things that are fun. So I swim and I fuck."

Mm-hmm. She's so desperate.

[quote]She also refers to her own writing as a "gift"

I read this as "grift," which seems more appropriate

Indeed, R115!

I made another attempt to get through more of that discussion above, but it's so painful to listen to. She is really enamoured of herself. And for someone who grew up as wealthy as she did, she sure likes to ignore her own privilege. Rather like best pal, Roxane - who it doesn't surprise me at all dismissed the critcisms of Jarrar's essay as being by the "White Belly Dancing Mafia". So much easier to call people names and mock them than actually engage with their criticisms and discover that you probably don't know what you're talking about, I guess.

It's really not surprising at all, r116. Jarrar is a product of the "MFA sphere" as I call it. And I find 95% of the MFA sphere insufferable and odious. The programs teach you, basically, how to write for others in the MFA sphere. It's a GIANT circle jerk of the worst kind.

As an aside, I never knew Roxane Gay attended Phillips Exeter

Yeah apparently she did, R118, I never knew that until recently either.

R117, can I ask a dumb question? What does "MFA" stand for? Apologies in advance, as it probably should be obvious to me

[quote]Plus, plenty of belly dancers from the middle east have gone on record saying they love that western women are taking it up. Rather embarrassingly for Randa, her idol Fifi Abdou is one of these women who have gone on record praising western women belly dancing.

Reminds me of when 2-3 years ago, a white high school senior in the western U.S. bought some Chinese dress for her prom because she liked how it looked. After she posted photos on her social media, she was harassed by SJWs for 'cultural appropriation.' When the Chinese public heard about the scandal, they actually said they were flattered and didn't understand the controversy.

It is mainly radical white liberals who take offense for others. They are so exhausting! Why are they so self-loathing?

It's so weird, isn't it R120? I remember that situation, and fair play to that girl, she went on TV and refused to apologise and said she would wear the dress again. I find that's a better tack than begging for forgiveness from these weirdos who never plan to forgive, just make people admit their guilt.

What is also dumb about that situation is that the dress she wore was itself a style "appropriated" by the Chinese in the 20s where they altered their traditional clothing by aping Western styles, haha.

Master of Fine Arts r119

You can obtain one in an actual fine art (painting, sculpting, etc) but also creative writing (poetry, fiction, less commonly drama)

This old-ish article is a good read on how MFA programs have (adversely) affected contemporary poetry

Ahh, Master of Fine Arts, of course! Thanks R122. And thanks for the article as well: "they frequently talk to themselves about talking to themselves" - spot on! Will continue on with this.

What you said about "learning to write for others in the MFA sphere" sounds so much like Roxane's latest "how to write for social change" masterclass too.

I hope the next Tolstoy or Shakespeare or Dante does not get anywhere NEAR an MFA program r123

When that happens I imagine they won't be anywhere near one, and it will suddenly open people's eyes to what a rort those programs are. Or you know, at least be that kinda of situation where everyone insists that something always has to be done a certain way to be successful until someone comes along and manages to buck the trend.

You know how someone mentions something and then you see it everywhere? Speaking of MFAs... Well, our old pal Roxane is keen to help out with this woman set up her own MFA because... something to do with white people? I'm not sure.

Such a rebel!

[quote]clothing designers: i'm so tired of floral patterns on every fucking thing. can we get prints of burning cop cars?

"See? See? I AM BEAUTIFUL!"

Anyone want to let her in on the fact that a good chunk of the grave robbery done in the centuries prior to the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb was done by... Egyptians?

Thrilled by the recent news of Prince Philip...

The far-left (i.e., SJWs) are as gross and dumb as their far-right counterparts (i.e., Deplorables).

I think it's funny how both those groups don't ever seem to realise how much they have in common, R131.

I've mentioned this before, I went to dinner with Myriam Gurba and Michelle Tea and some mutual friends a few years ago in San Francisco. We had a wonderful night and Myriam was sweet, kind of shy, very pretty, and a lot of fun. We exchanged numbers at the end of the night but never reached out to each other. I'm a gay man, btw. Hate seeing her jumping on the crazy train.

That IS sad, R133. When someone is a sweetheart and starts to jump on the crazy train you really do wish you could reach out and help.

She's now retweeting stupid statements like this one from a so-called "human rights lawyer", and critical thinking be damned! Where do these people get these degrees? Do their lecturers really approve of constructing arguments in this manner? While I would agree that you should take someone who is always accusing others of doing wrong things with a grain of salt, the "it's only men" and "there are no exceptions to this rule [that I just fabricated]" statements are just obnoxious and then when she doubles down later on with sarcasm, it's insufferable.

Perhaps I'm just touchy after watching a mate of mine go through a horrible ordeal with a crazy (I'll say it!) woman who falsely accused him of rape because he said he wasn't interested in dating her.

I think she might be an anarchist?

Re: R113, I find it quite telling than in her eagerness to explain why she hates white women belly dancing she's talking about how "[italic]I[/italic] want them to stop doing it" before quickly correcting herself that other people want this too. It really is just something that annoys her and she wants to control, but she's trying to make out like she has support elsewhere.

I bet she's in ecstasy today, seeing Gal Gadot trending negatively on Twitter.

This woman would be so much happier if she stopped trying to control other people.

[quote]1, when you talk about your diet, it is reminding people around you who have had eating disorders or cruel caregivers of awful times in their life. Stop doing it. 2, if you're talking about being fatter than you'd like to be, ppl fatter than you don't wanna hear it. At all