13 9 / 2018

Anonymous asked: Why does Kasier think she's a fashionista? Why do her commenters think they know the first thing about fashion? They really don't! They don't know what tailoring means, they don't know what couture and bespoke means; they don't buy designer clothes, shoes, bags, etc., and they certainly don't know what's trendy from season to season. Basically, they have no clue about fashion and clothes. So why do they think they can judge famous women so harshly when it comes to their outfit choices?

My thoughts exactly.

I also don’t think many Celebitchy posters, if any, would be able to handle the treatment they, themselves, so freely dole out. 

13 9 / 2018

I have also been banned by Kaiser MULTIPLE TIMES!  I’ve used up all my personal, professional, and business e-mail addresses.  But half my comments were deleted anyway, even before I was banned.

Anyway, I know Kaiser has mentioned multiple times that she is half Indian, but she’s never said what the other half is?  I’m guessing she must be African American based on how if you don’t gush about other AA celebrities you will be banned or your comment deleted.  I’m guessing she’s also overweight, due to all her cries for body positivity and how we need more “real” and “average” women to be models and movie stars.

I’m guessing her demographic is exactly like her.  Any woman who is thin is accused of having an eating disorder, white women are consistently referred to as “beckies” by both Kaiser and her commenters, ad the term “whitesplaining” is used all to often.

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According to what Kaiser posted herself her father is Indian and her mother is white. My guess is that her parents are divorced and she was raised by her mother, because she just doesn’t show the knowledge of familiarity of Indian or Indian culture, or should I say cultures, since there are so many. 

In regards to African Americans, she courts this demographic for her site, but multiple times she showed not to have true interest or understanding of the topic, and every time she was called out for it, she responded by banning people or deleting whole chains of comments.

13 9 / 2018

Anonymous asked: So, what would make CB'ers happy re: Matthew McC? I'm not exactly a fan or hater, but should he just say "the kid in my movie became a drug kingpin because he's an evil white male, and all white males are evil, and therefore we should all kill ourselves?"

I liked what one of the commenters posted about his charity work. In the end, actions speak louder than words.And you are right, sometimes there is no answer that would please everyone.

12 9 / 2018

Anonymous asked: Just here to give <3 <3 <3 to the professional culture critic-- we need people like you to make escapism smart again

11 9 / 2018

 Oh no. Oh no!! Hahahaha! I found this website when I accidentally googled “celebitchy.com” instead of entering it into my browser bar. I was like, “Oh? What’s this?” and clicked further down the page, to this Tumblr. Oh, my god. I’d had no IDEA others were banned from Celebitchy, too! 

So, ok, just a bit of backstory: I used to be a professional culture critic. I have bylines at NYTimes, Guardian, Paste Magazine, a variety of tech websites… I even covered Kesha versus Dr. Luke, when that story was still fairly unknown, for Flavorwire. I’ve mostly been a tech writer my entire life, but for nine months I actually blogged about celebrity gossip for easy money. I replaced Molls McAleer at her old job when she left to found HelloGiggles. (The pay was fine, but… having to pose serious moral questions to yourself every morning, “Is it okay that I cover this?” is… well, it’s crazymaking. I *now* realize there are critical pop-culture analysts like Anne Helen Petersen, but those types didn’t exist back when I did it, back when it was basically dirty money you were earning.) I stopped writing culture-essays four years ago because of something unrelated to celebrity gossip… but I started to get my groove back on Celebitchy, and I guess I was leaving reeeeally long comments… …and then I got banned. 

I got super fucking banned. It was probably because of one of the times I’d written a long analysis about why a bad take was a Bad Take, but it might’ve been as benign as the time I wrote a longform analysis of Jessica Chastain’s changing fashion sense. Who knows? I honestly can’t remember. 

Either way, it was actually really hard on me! I was like, “Wow, what a total failure; you’ll never write for anyone again, you got banned from a random blog, you obviously suck.” I took it mega hard. But banning me didn’t stop me from posting. 

I just switched to my real-name email and kept posting – shorter comments, obviously, and much less pointed ones. I was a rule-follower now, I guess. But oh my god, hahahahahaha! I finally saw the Tumblr questions here that are like “whoa, why did they add the whole thing to their comments policy about deleting comments that are long?" 

Oh, no. I can honestly say that was added FOR ME. I did that! I am why! Oh my god, that is so embarrassing, I am crying. I hadn’t realized that the comments policy was updated FOR ME before now, and… I’m honestly a little bit crushed! I’d thought that my ban was random and arbitrary! It kind of cuts to the quick, that they were THAT insistent that I just leave their website. 

Before now, I didn’t realize how much they wanted me to just leave. (I’m not being delusional btw; the policy change was FOR ME. The timelines match up. This is literally why I was banned, and they made up a rule for me afterward. Ugh.) 

Anyway, I can’t go back and comment on that website again, obviously. To me it’s like, wow! My ban wasn’t a shot in the dark, wasn’t arbitrary. They just really don’t want me to comment ever again. 

Obviously I’m verbose, so you can see why I was banned, too, haha. Sorry! Old habits die hard. But… I know my insights were good. It’s kind of fucked up to claim that people who have lots to say are "distracting from the story,” and that really bothers me. 

To anyone else who fancies themselves as a burgeoning culture critic, just, take your talents elsewhere, ok? Don’t let your opinion of yourself be ruined by these people. I wish there were another good gossip website with a cool comments section, but I guess there isn’t one. That’s heartbreaking, but it’s what it is.

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“Either way, it was actually really hard on me! I was like, “Wow, what a total failure; you’ll never write for anyone again, you got banned from a random blog, you obviously suck. “ - Lol, I felt something similar. ))) 

11 9 / 2018

I just got banned because I didn’t praise Serena Williams in the post about her yesterday. Today there’s another post where comments are heavily moderated and most comments are agreeing with Serena, and Kaiser actually thanked one poster for telling others they’re not real tennis fans for having a different opinion. LMAO Kaiser is so biased and she’s not even ashamed of it. That website has truly gone to the pits. 

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That Serena Williams post is a such trainwreck. Serena behaved like a spoiled diva, and instead of just admitting it and moving on people are trying to justify it. Sure, there could be multiple reasons that she lost it, but the fact remains that she did, in a professional setting. Most of us, if we behaved like Serena, would be out of work, regardless of our race, color or sex. Nobody behaves like that in my office.

On top of it, you have to realize that foreigners have very little understanding of the US racial dynamics, and the other player got caught in the cross-fire, through no fault of her own. And she is a woman of color too! And from a country notorious for sexism. Japan is far more sexist than the US. But Celebitchy posters don’t care about that. They feel they have to protect Serena at all costs.

11 9 / 2018

Anonymous asked: I cannot believe that Kaiser responded in her own post praising another commenters post. Unbelievable. She is biased and horrible. Whether agreeing or disagreeing with what ur commenters say, keep out of it. If people who continue to post there don’t understand the simple fact, then shame on them. So glad I got banned from there as this behavior shows what a biased website it is. No better than the DM. She is ridiculous. I’m still shaking my head. Am I wrong? What are ur thoughts?

11 9 / 2018

Anonymous asked: "Don’t get me wrong, I actually like Cate, still, despite her Woody Allen and Roman Polanski vague apologia." That's Kaiser the feminist (sarcasm).

11 9 / 2018

Anonymous asked: they should call it Celebiased

11 9 / 2018

Anonymous asked: Seeing a lot of "feminists" doing tone-policing of Matthew McC's comment about single-parent households. They usually HATE tone-policing, but it's okay here because he's an evil white man. So far I spotted some sane comments, but they'll probably get deleted soon.