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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[contextly_sidebar id=\"qee8J4J9SS07LJnoPTQF5EOAaQyKIcuY\"]After 20 seasons, \u003cem>The Bachelor/Bachelorette\u003c/em> franchise is a well-oiled machine. Each season comes with a few guarantees: no person of color will make it to the final four; the promos for future episodes will be unfairly misleading; and there will be a villain.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the current season of \u003cem>The \u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bachelorette\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, that person was Chad Johnson, a 28-year-old luxury real estate agent from Tulsa. Jacked on protein powder and the literal piles of meat made available during cocktail parties, Chad was incapable of controlling his temper in front of the cameras. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On their very first \"date,\" he called JoJo Fletcher, the woman he was supposed to be impressing, \"naggy.\" Then, when Evan Bass, a wispy erectile dysfunction specialist, decided to roast Chad during a competition, Chad responded by grabbing Evan’s shirt and pulling it so hard that it ripped. \u003c/span>After that, he punched a door. But Evan wasn't the only one he had beef with: \"I'm going to cut everyone here's legs off and arms off and there's going to be torsos and I'm going to throw them in the pool and I'm going to f*ck up this entire damn thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eventually, ABC brought security into the house, a guy with a mere fraction of Johnson’s muscle mass. Whenever JoJo or anyone else confronted Chad for his troubling behavior, Johnson would use some bizarre circular logic to reason that he only made violent threats because the guys just wouldn’t stop picking on him and, well, what else is he supposed to do besides threaten them with physical violence?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And after all that, JoJo \u003cem>still\u003c/em> kept him around for another episode. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“He was probably a dream character for the producers,” says Dr. Melissa Camacho, an associate professor of mass media at San Francisco State University. But the behavior of people like Chad doesn’t worry her as much as the audience’s tolerance level. “To me, the larger question is why the audience would find this acceptable.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chad is just one bully in a long line of reality show bullies. They’re the characters that the audience loves to hate, even if they’re physically and verbally abusive. This apparent inability to see the abuse as anything more than entertainment deeply concerns Camacho. “Are we suggesting that these types of violent episodes on a reality show are things that we’re not supposed to take seriously as audiences because it’s just a reality show? At what point do we say that this is violence?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was certainly violence when \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5cVlW5Q6J8\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stephen Williams slapped Irene McGee on \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Real World: Seattle\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in 1998. When McGee decided to leave the show early, she called Stephen a homosexual on her way out. Stephen, who at the time was outwardly homophobic and deeply closeted, freaked out, pulled open the door of her car, and smacked her in the face. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Camacho points out that MTV has a no-violence policy on its shows and removes contestants who cross that line. In this case, viewers actually got to see producers take action on camera. Still, they gave the roommates the option of letting Stephen stay in the house, which they did — as long as he took anger management classes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">MTV used to be quick to act, but these days, it seems like the network picks and chooses which stars it removes from its most popular shows. On the \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jersey Shore\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8eYbyriti8\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sammi and J-Woww traded blows\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in season two but both stayed cast members for four more seasons. And on \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teen Mom\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Amber Portwood faced domestic violence charges for \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZqSgkQLiGo\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">attacking her fiance\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (in front of their child) only after the footage aired. She eventually went to prison (for unrelated charges). As of 2016, she’s still on the show. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Camacho, one of her most memorable reality show moments came from the second season of \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Top Chef\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. After a night of drinking, four of the contestants, including Cliff Crooks, decided to shave their heads and the head of Marcel Vigneron, who was asleep at the time. Cliff \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1pse2_top-chef-head-shaving-official_shortfilms\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">is shown on camera trying to hold Marcel down\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. “Everyone knew that it wasn’t meant to be a quote unquote violent event,” Camacho says. “But they were like: You put your hands on somebody. That’s assault.” Crooks was disqualified from the show, on camera.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unfortunately, not all programs are so discerning, and some — like \u003cem>The Bachelorette\u003c/em> — may actually capitalize on such behavior. One of the scariest hostilities in reality history happened on the usually innocuous \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amazing Race\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The CBS adventure series was thrown for a loop when they cast Jonathan Baker and Victoria Fuller in its sixth season. The couple bickered from the start, but it wasn’t until a few episodes in that the full extent of Jonathan’s temper was revealed. After losing a footrace, he shoved Victoria, blaming her for their second-place finish. In another episode, Jonathan raised his hand as though to hit his wife, but stopped himself just in time. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jonathan and Victoria remained on \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Amazing Race\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> until they lost. Afterward, Jonathan\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ew.com/article/2004/12/22/amazing-race-contestant-im-not-abusive-husband\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> went on the defensive:\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> “We went in being the villains. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We went in playing it over the top, and CBS kind of helped it along with their storyline.” Other networks decided to capitalize on them too; a few years later, the couple were invited onto the reality star edition of \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fear Factor\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and they lived up to their hype. Ever the sore losers, Victoria pushed Jonny Fairplay of \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Survivor\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> infamy. Never one to be upstaged, Jonathan then attacked host Joe Rogan after they traded insults. Jonathan \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://nypost.com/2006/05/31/fear-fight-controversial-racer-clashes-with-reality-show-host-joe-rogan/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">claims\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that Rogan and Fairplay had taunted his wife, and he was merely defending her. (Jonathan and Victoria are now divorced.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fans of\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The Bachelorette\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> may have wondered if producers were perhaps forcing JoJo to string Chad along for the juicy plot line. Fortunately, the speculation was short-lived, as JoJo finally dumped him after a two-on-one date in episode four. Of course, the network still let his exit bleed into episode five, filming his return to the house for one last manufactured confrontation, probably because they thought maybe this time he’d blow, and partly so they could milk one more episode’s worth of ratings out of him. He didn’t snap, even when Evan asked him to replace his torn shirt, and Chad finally left. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Later that night, Johnson was a guest on ABC’s \u003cem>Jimmy Kimmel Live\u003c/em>. And later this summer, viewers will get even more Chad on the alcohol-soaked spinoff \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bachelor in Paradise\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, where he’ll rejoin Evan Bass and more of the men who felt unsafe around Johnson and whose limbs he threatened to tear off. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maybe nothing will happen. 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At what point do we say that this is violence?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was certainly violence when \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5cVlW5Q6J8\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stephen Williams slapped Irene McGee on \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Real World: Seattle\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in 1998. When McGee decided to leave the show early, she called Stephen a homosexual on her way out. Stephen, who at the time was outwardly homophobic and deeply closeted, freaked out, pulled open the door of her car, and smacked her in the face. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Camacho points out that MTV has a no-violence policy on its shows and removes contestants who cross that line. In this case, viewers actually got to see producers take action on camera. Still, they gave the roommates the option of letting Stephen stay in the house, which they did — as long as he took anger management classes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">MTV used to be quick to act, but these days, it seems like the network picks and chooses which stars it removes from its most popular shows. On the \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jersey Shore\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8eYbyriti8\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sammi and J-Woww traded blows\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in season two but both stayed cast members for four more seasons. 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"content": "\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"DTeLk36yQMgO2Zg2fdDQmQFL2wpaixAx\"]Justin Timberlake means a lot of things to people. Maybe he was your first crush back in the NSYNC days. Maybe he emboldened you to try out \u003ca href=\"http://esq.h-cdn.co/assets/cm/15/07/54da4e972127b_-_justin-timberlake-wi-0608-lg-18970743.jpg\">an all-denim look\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://cdn-wpmsa.defymedia.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2015/01/justin-timberlake-ramen-noodles-birthday-collage.jpg\">an edgy Ramen noodle hairstyle\u003c/a>. Or maybe he taught you a lesson about the Teflon nature of white male privilege and how, for some, nothing bad sticks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But times are a-changing. 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If you have a critique for the resistance, for our resistance, then you better have an established record of critique of our oppression. If you have no interest in equal rights for black people, then do not make suggestions to those who do. Sit down.\"\u003c/i>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ci>\"We've been floating this country on credit for centuries, yo, and we're done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil - black gold, ghettoizing and demeaning our creations then stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit. Just because we're magic doesn't mean we're not real.\"\u003c/i>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Justin Timberlake was presumably watching at home and felt moved, as anyone should. He decided to tweet from his glass house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/jtimberlake/status/747257470314131456\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seems harmless. Jesse does deserve props for that speech. But there is an absurd lack of self-awareness at work here. One of the major points of Jesse's speech is that black art is so often devalued, only to be appropriated by white people and reevaluated as suddenly worthy. No one knows this better than Justin Timberlake, who has made a career out of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXl4DB34yTk\">co-opting black culture \u003c/a>and gaining the kind of success that is rarely afforded to those who originated it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter helpfully pointed this out for him:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MrErnestOwens/status/747273043379052544\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is where Justin should have logged off. But no:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/sweet-soul_1.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/sweet-soul_1-800x339.png\" alt=\"sweet soul_1\" width=\"800\" height=\"339\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-33628\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/sweet-soul_1-800x339.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/sweet-soul_1-400x170.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/sweet-soul_1-768x326.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/sweet-soul_1-960x407.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/sweet-soul_1.png 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A one-two punch of condescension (\"sweet soul\"? really?!) and #AllLivesMatter / #We'reAllAfrican sentiment? Plus, a sardonic \"bye\" send-off? Justin, you are not Beyonce and people on Twitter speaking truth are not Felicia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CerromeRussell/status/747404875445768192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Felonious_munk/status/747283831753838592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Princesskeshia1/status/747358805281873924?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, Justin, we are all human beings and \u003cem>should\u003c/em> be treated equally, but that's not our current reality. When someone from a marginalized group expresses his or her feelings on their lived experience, it is not appropriate to step in and say something that makes their message about you. Sometimes the best way to be an ally is to know when to stop talking and start listening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For over a decade, Justin has gotten away with being mediocre (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5RobDomh5U\">his last single\u003c/a>, which is horrible, went straight to #1) and being a coward (lest we forget how he left Janet Jackson out to dry, after ripping her Super Bowl Halftime outfit). Judging by the response to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/02/04/nipplegate-revisited-why-america-owes-janet-jackson-a-huge-apology/\">an essay I wrote earlier this year about Nipplegate\u003c/a>, it seems like many \u003cem>have\u003c/em> forgotten. For those who missed it, here's something to chew on:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>When he sings, “Better have you naked by the end of this song,” he was supposed to pull Janet’s bustier to reveal a red lace bra, but both pieces ended up ripping off.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Then everyone got insanely mad at Justin for messing up. Oh, wait, sorry, I forgot about the patriarchy for a second. Let me try that again: then everyone got insanely mad at Janet for having breasts and no one ever really mentioned Justin again. For example, The Washington Post’s Tony Kornheiser wrote, “What Janet Jackson did was bizarre, deliberately flopping out of her costume like that.” Justin’s grabbing hand is entirely erased from the scene.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The senseless sexism didn’t end there. Janet was disinvited from that year’s Grammys. Meanwhile, Justin was not only allowed to attend, but also performed. Janet was blacklisted from radio and music video channels for the next several years, leading to multiple album flops, while Justin got to be goofy on SNL and become a movie star.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And what's worse is that Justin let Janet take all the heat, more concerned with making it as a solo artist than doing the right thing. Granted, the way America so easily absolved him of any wrongdoing wasn't really up to him and speaks to a national legacy of racism and sexism that's far bigger than one single boy band member. But what was up to him was whether or not he used his privilege to highlight the unfair advantage he enjoys in this world and the hypocrisy of it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Twitter had been around back in 2004, maybe Janet and Justin's career trajectories would have taken different courses. Maybe so many wouldn't have kept quiet as Justin moonwalked away from the mess he helped create, using Janet's brother's appropriated dance moves to boot. There's no way to know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Justin apologized for his tweet and says he feels \"misunderstood.\" So does Janet. So do many African Americans. So do most people who aren't straight white dudes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's time for Justin to take a seat and some of his own medicine, the same dose he prescribed for Britney, another woman he used and then discarded to get to where he is today: Cry me a river.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/giphy-1.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28050\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/giphy-1.gif\" alt=\"justin cry me a river gif\" width=\"595\" height=\"335\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To learn more about how troubling Nipplegate really was, listen to this episode of The Cooler:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/245551173&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Or read all about it:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/02/04/nipplegate-revisited-why-america-owes-janet-jackson-a-huge-apology/\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The founders \u003ca href=\"http://the-toast.net/2016/05/13/we-are-closing-the-toast-july-1st/\">said in an announcement\u003c/a> that keeping it going beyond that would involve \"turning the Toast into something we didn't like, or continuing to work ourselves into the ground forever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(\"No Kickstarters, please,\" Ortberg added. \"If you start one I promise I will waste every single penny sent my way on expensive single-serving cakes and various perfumed unguents designed to enhance my beauty.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wrote for the Toast twice and was paid zero and $25 for those pieces respectively, which was admittedly not much but probably more than market rate for a translation of a Sappho fragment and a metrically flawed joke poem (\"Modified clerihews!\" a commenter hazarded, supportively). 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The house style was gentle anglophilia, intersectional feminism, loving irreverence for the Western canon, pictures of monks with funny captions, and lengthy, carefully argued proposals such as \"\u003ca href=\"http://the-toast.net/2014/11/20/lets-make-meat-loaf-lesbian-icon/\">Let's Make Meat Loaf a Lesbian Icon\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The secret to the Toast's greatness (and, maybe, the reason for its downfall) was its unwillingness to try for broad appeal. General interest is a quality different websites strive for in different registers: the superlative-laden, circus master-ish \u003cem>you-won't-believe-it \u003c/em>mania of articles designed for social sharing, the sober, obvious voice of newswriting, the earnest anger of political blogs. And, of course, the tone cultivated by mainstream women's magazines — gushy, conspiratorial, flirtatious, a tone that feels unrelated to any female conception of myself I could possibly have. Those styles aspire to relatability, to general readership, to our least interesting selves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Toast\u003c/em> appealed to our most interesting selves — bookish, queer, into medieval art or Shakespeare, anti-pretentious, shamelessly emotional. The Toast bet that its readership was smart, and that weird passions, beautifully presented, were just as relatable as the trilling, manic prose of women's magazines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reading often involves twisting yourself into registers not quite natural for you — and that is a good thing, and part of why reading supports empathy and imagination. But, for me, in the Toast, I had the wild and improbable luxury of finding something that felt written just for me, something devoted to my precise personal interests and tastes: witches, essays about identity and race and gender and sexuality, jokes about classic literature, pre-Raphaelite paintings of women looking bored, \"\u003ca href=\"http://the-toast.net/2016/02/24/grumpy-hermits-i-would-like-to-cuddle-in-art-history/\">Grumpy Hermits I Would Like To Cuddle In Art History\u003c/a>,\" etc. That deep specificity explains, too, the fierce, specialized devotion of the commenter community. The loving, supportive, collaborative nature of the comments section was such that one regular commenter gave another \u003ca href=\"http://the-toast.net/2016/02/12/cocktail-hour-open-thread-98/\">a kidney\u003c/a>, and commenters helped another \u003ca href=\"http://the-toast.net/2015/08/25/head-lice-red-flags-and-emotional-abuse/\">leave an emotionally abusive marriage\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Toast's biggest gift to me was permission to rethink my relationship with a lot of the Western canon. It took a long time to realize that much of the art I was told is \u003cem>good\u003c/em> did not anticipate me in the audience. The Toast's satire was medicine for the slight tightness in my chest when I walk into another museum filled with paintings of clothed men and dead-eyed, nude women, or my inability to swallow yet more novels with self-serious male anti-heroes and decorative women (here's looking at you, Jack Kerouac). 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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">This morning, those of us who believe in a woman's right to choose have something to celebrate: the Supreme Court has \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/27/483686616/supreme-court-strikes-down-abortion-restrictions-in-texas\">struck down abortion restrictions in Texas\u003c/a>. But victory has become an unfamiliar sensation, as of late. At the end of March, Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed one of \u003ca href=\"https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2016/bills/house/1337#digest-heading\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">the most restrictive abortion laws in the country\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, a bill so extreme even some \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/25/471842196/indiana-governor-signs-new-abortion-restrictions-into-law\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">pro-life lawmakers opposed it\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. Around the same time, Donald Trump suggested (and then recanted) that women \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/us/politics/donald-trump-abortion.html?_r=0\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">who receive abortions should be subject “to some kind of punishment\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.” The last few years have seen the curtailing of abortion rights across the US, from Tennessee to Texas, North Dakota, and most recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/04/23/this-is-our-proper-function-oklahoma-advances-measure-to-revoke-licenses-of-doctors-that-perform-abortions/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">Oklahoma\u003c/span>\u003c/a>. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">I’ve watched these explosive conversations and laws unfold across the country with horror, as women’s bodies are used and abused by the political process. Missing from many of these political conversations are women’s voices and missing from the media landscape, from television to film, are representations of women who choose to have abortions, whatever their reasons may be. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">When TV shows attempt to stay neutral on the issue of abortion, in order to avoid offending an imagined conservative audience, they in fact take an anti-choice stance. Plot lines in which abortion is not considered as a reasonable option reinforce the spectacle and stigma around the procedure. That's why it's so important when shows like \u003ci>Scandal\u003c/i> offer diverse representations of reproductive choices, helping to normalize the scope of possibilities available to women.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Abortion’s absence in entertainment television is nothing new. \u003cem>Broadly\u003c/em>'s Briana Fasone \u003ca href=\"https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/far-from-reality-tv-the-changing-story-of-abortion-on-television\">writes\u003c/a> that, \u003cspan class=\"s2\">“until the 1960s, abortion, which was illegal in 44 states in nearly all situations that didn’t threaten the life of the mother, was absent as a plot line in television\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s3\">.” \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Fasone \u003cspan class=\"s2\">details this early history of abortion on \u003c/span>TV, which included news reports, a controversial episode of \u003ci>The Defenders\u003c/i>, and a Walter Cronkite special. Moreover, pregnancy itself has often been invisible on network television. For decades, women’s pregnant bodies have been largely hidden behind drapey clothes (see: \u003ca href=\"http://www.avclub.com/article/more-than-60-years-ago-a-pregnant-lucille-ball-cou-100629\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">Lucille Ball\u003c/span>\u003c/a>), tight camera framing, and even the occasional giant popcorn bowl. (I’m looking at you, \u003ci>Scandal\u003c/i>.) \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Even more obscure are storylines that engage and carry through with abortion in primetime network programming -- the most expensive and conservative landscape in television -- especially when the procedure involves a main character. Here, \u003ci>Scandal\u003c/i> made history in its mid-season winter finale, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” showcasing its central character choosing, without fanfare, to have an abortion. Olivia (Kerry Washington) wasn’t the first character to make this choice on television, but she is one of a very select few. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">In the early 1960s, an abortion plot on \u003ci>The Defenders\u003c/i>, which supported the rights of women to choose, caused an uproar at CBS. The show lost sponsors. Affiliates in many major markets refused to air the episode. Then, in 1972, there was the Bea Arthur sitcom \u003ci>Maude\u003c/i>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/16991917_849842870001_img-100603-maude-rue-still-182846995684.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-28023\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/16991917_849842870001_img-100603-maude-rue-still-182846995684.jpg\" alt=\"maude abortion\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/16991917_849842870001_img-100603-maude-rue-still-182846995684.jpg 480w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/16991917_849842870001_img-100603-maude-rue-still-182846995684-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>In 1972 -- in line with the shifting tide signaled by the Roe v. Wade decision (1973) -- Bea Arthur’s character Maude\u003ci> \u003c/i>had an abortion. Although she was \u003ca href=\"http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/cristina-yang-grey-s-anatomy-abortion\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">not the first character to have an abortion on TV\u003c/span>\u003c/a> (shout out to soap operas!), she was the first character to do so in primetime television. Over 30 years later, Maude remains mostly alone in the history of primetime abortions, Dr. Christina Yang (Sandra Oh) on \u003ci>Grey’s Anatomy\u003c/i> and Becky (Madison Burges) on \u003ci>Friday Night Lights \u003c/i>are two exceptions. (Within this select group, most women on TV who have abortions are, according to KQED's own Lisa Aliferis, “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/12/17/fictionalized-abortion-on-tv-no-mirror-for-real-life/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">younger, whiter, wealthier and less likely to be raising children than the average American woman who has an abortion.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>”)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Often when TV does depict abortion, it's a big and controversial deal. For instance, when Becky has an abortion on \u003ci>Friday Night Lights\u003c/i>, the whole town becomes hysterical. Becky’s decision even results in Tami Taylor (Connie Britton) being forced by the town to step down from her job as school principal.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFxvFF42LEM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">While accidental pregnancies are a regular plot twist on network TV, it’s far more common for characters to go ahead and have the baby. This trope wraps sex into the productivity of the nuclear family (television’s bread and butter). You might recognize this plot line from \u003ci>Friends\u003c/i> (Ross and Rachel have Emma) or, more recently,\u003ci> The Mindy Project\u003c/i>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Just last year, Mindy Kaling said that her sitcom \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/09/04/abortion_on_the_mindy_project_mindy_kaling_says_it_won_t_happen.html\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">wouldn’t depict abortion because it is too serious\u003c/span>\u003c/a> (see \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/13/obvious-child-why-america-is-finally-ready-for-the-first-pro-choice-rom-com/\">\u003ci>Obvious Child\u003c/i>\u003c/a> for a great counter-argument about how to talk about abortion with humor and warmth). Thus, when Mindy got pregnant during the sitcom’s third season, she kept the baby, like many female characters before her. The show did not give her space to consider any other decision.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2GN3wdfqbA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Then in November 2015, Olivia Pope had an abortion in a primetime show watched by millions of dedicated fans. Of Olivia’s abortion, \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/11/scandal-olivia-pope-abortion/417048/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">Lenika Cruz wrote in \u003ci>The Atlantic\u003c/i>,\u003c/span>\u003c/a> “the camera didn’t ogle, but it didn’t shy away from Olivia’s wide-eyed gaze either. The message? This is normal. This is acceptable. This is Olivia’s choice, and hers alone.” The audacity, she concludes, wasn’t the abortion itself, but that it wasn’t made into a spectacle.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Olivia’s decision to resist patriarchal control over her body also has a broader meaning, given that her boyfriend is the President of the United States: in making her decision without him, she also denies the government any role or say in what she does with her body. Her choice, quite literally, argues that government has no place interfering in women’s bodies and our right to choose our own destiny, for ourselves and any potential children. If anything, taking this a step further, it also argues that government ought to protect this right and stop prohibiting safe access to care, something recent abortion laws have certainly not done. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">In one portion, the new Indiana law reads, “i\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s4\">nformation submitted with respect to the disposition of a miscarried or aborted fetus that may be used to identify the parent or parents of a miscarried fetus or a \u003ci>pregnant\u003c/i> who had an abortion.\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">” There are several other typos in the bill, so this phrasing may be an accident. Even so, the implications are chilling: that a pregnant woman is no longer an autonomous being -- no longer a woman, even -- but simply a vessel for childbirth. It is a typo that feels too closely in line with the times, in which abortion and even miscarriages are stigmatized and criminalized. Donald Trump’s assertion that a woman who gets an abortion ought to be punished sounds outlandish. But, it is not so far afield from what we’ve already seen happen across the United States. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">The erasure of abortion on primetime TV, and television’s tendency to treat it as a spectacle when it does happen, is part and parcel of this violence towards women, which denies us both the choice and ability to decide what we do with our own bodies. This erasure reaffirms the idea that abortions are not normal, modeling once again that they are outside the scope of polite or appropriate TV content.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">By depriving imaginary women the opportunity to make active decisions about their own bodies, so too does television limit the ways in which we imagine ourselves and the choices available to us. We deserve to see a real range of reproductive choices represented -- much like Olivia Pope’s -- in order to normalize women’s right to decide what happens to our own bodies. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">In the early 1960s, an abortion plot on \u003ci>The Defenders\u003c/i>, which supported the rights of women to choose, caused an uproar at CBS. The show lost sponsors. Affiliates in many major markets refused to air the episode. Then, in 1972, there was the Bea Arthur sitcom \u003ci>Maude\u003c/i>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/16991917_849842870001_img-100603-maude-rue-still-182846995684.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-28023\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/16991917_849842870001_img-100603-maude-rue-still-182846995684.jpg\" alt=\"maude abortion\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/16991917_849842870001_img-100603-maude-rue-still-182846995684.jpg 480w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/16991917_849842870001_img-100603-maude-rue-still-182846995684-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>In 1972 -- in line with the shifting tide signaled by the Roe v. Wade decision (1973) -- Bea Arthur’s character Maude\u003ci> \u003c/i>had an abortion. Although she was \u003ca href=\"http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/cristina-yang-grey-s-anatomy-abortion\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">not the first character to have an abortion on TV\u003c/span>\u003c/a> (shout out to soap operas!), she was the first character to do so in primetime television. Over 30 years later, Maude remains mostly alone in the history of primetime abortions, Dr. Christina Yang (Sandra Oh) on \u003ci>Grey’s Anatomy\u003c/i> and Becky (Madison Burges) on \u003ci>Friday Night Lights \u003c/i>are two exceptions. (Within this select group, most women on TV who have abortions are, according to KQED's own Lisa Aliferis, “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/12/17/fictionalized-abortion-on-tv-no-mirror-for-real-life/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">younger, whiter, wealthier and less likely to be raising children than the average American woman who has an abortion.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>”)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Often when TV does depict abortion, it's a big and controversial deal. For instance, when Becky has an abortion on \u003ci>Friday Night Lights\u003c/i>, the whole town becomes hysterical. 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