Yoruba Girl Dancing

lettersyouneversentblog:

Dear Primark,

You wily, wily minx.

As I stand here, reading this letter in front of these people, I’m wearing no less than two items from your A/W 2011 collection. This skirt, which highlights my – admittedly already pretty nice – arse, is from your new outpost in Stratford Westfield. And the…

Here’s an excerpt from the editor’s response:

“We are of course very fed up over this and especially very shocked… While the author meant no harm — the title of the article was intended as a joke — it was a bad joke, to say the least. And that slipped through my, the editor-in-chief’s, fingers. Stupid, painful and sucks for all concerned. The author has been addressed on it, and now I can only ensure that these terms will no longer end up in the magazine. Furthermore I hope that you all believe there was absolutely no racist motive behind the choice of words. It was stupid, it was naive to think that this was an acceptable form of slang — you hear it all the time on tv and radio, then your idea of what is normal apparently shifts — but it was especially misguided: there was no malice behind it. We make our magazine with love, energy and enthusiasm, and it can sometimes happen that someone is out of line. And then you can only do one thing: apologize. And hope that others wish to accept it.

From the bottom of my heart I say it again: we never intended to offend anyone. And I mean that.

I… can’t. I cannot. I WILL NOT.

jeanhannah:

A man and a woman went on a date. The woman found it ‘horrific’. The man wanted to see her again. She didn’t respond to his invitations. He wrote her an email. It went viral.

‘It’s bad to play with your hair so much and make so much eye contact if you’re not interested in going out with me…