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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]4000 gushy comments. Did anyone push back? [/quote]

There’s a little pushing back on how she responded to Tyler’s comment on her post. She described him as “6’2” black types with dreads.” There were a few thoughtful comments pushing back on how problematic that description is. So far, they haven’t been deleted or directly responded to by Jen or Tyler. [/quote]

If she ever educated herself on blackness and especially black hair you’d know that the use of “dreads” is highly controversial. Second, her description reeks of white woman fetishization. What, Jen, is “black types”? You’re so proud of being a whole person that you reduced your partner to his hair and body? [/quote]

Jen has appropriated Black culture for years. She appears to think she gets a pass to do so because she adopted two Black children from Ethiopia. It has grated on me for a long time. Even I knew not to refer to them as "dreads" and not to fetishize Black men the way she did in a comment about her own partner. (And I'm a white, middle-aged non-famous person from the Midwest).

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how so?[/quote]

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