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"content": "\u003cp>Over the weekend, a whole bunch of drama kicked off between Cover Girl's first male ambassador, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCucot-Zp428OwkyRm2I7v2Q\">James Charles\u003c/a>, and his one time mentor, beauty blogger \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4qk9TtGhBKCkoWz5qGJcGg\">Tati Westbrook\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drama started after Charles endorsed Sugar Bear Hair vitamins, a direct rival company to Westbrook's Halo Beauty line. Westbrook was hurt over the slight—understandably so, given how much assistance she gave Charles in growing both his audience and income in the earlier part of his career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to explain her side of things and bid her old friend goodbye, Westbrook made a 43-minute video (\u003cem>43 minutes!\u003c/em>) in which she went into great detail about exactly what happened, when, and just how little Charles has given her in return, in terms of friendship, respect and, um, birthday party etiquette. To date, it has been viewed 34 million times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoVZg4KjRxU&t=2313s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main takeaways from Westbrook's video are, essentially: James Charles is a terrible friend, an unapologetic narcissist, a master manipulator, an inappropriate dinner guest and a violator of other people's personal space. In short, she makes him sound like a nightmare to be around in any capacity, be it personal or professional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's only one problem. The way that Westbrook describes Charles' sexual boundary issues are rooted in a fair amount of good old-fashioned homophobia. Here's what Tati says, 24 minutes in:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The last phone conversation that James Charles and I had, he [was] telling me about a situation that... literally made me want to vomit. Oh my God, you tried to trick a straight man into thinking he's gay yet again. And somehow, you're the victim. You know, it's really disgusting to manipulate someone's sexuality, especially when they are still, you know, emerging into adulthood and don't quite have everything figured out. Whether you're a woman, a man, gay, straight, bi, whatever sexual orientation you are, that is your personal call and it is not someone else's to take...\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>First of all, Westbrook is implying here that sexual preference is something that can be forced onto others, which is not only the entire basis of \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetrevorproject.org/get-involved/trevor-advocacy/50-bills-50-states/about-conversion-therapy/#sm.0000n9errd1bwdcw1s5jtbwaxujnf\">conversion therapy\u003c/a>, it's also the crux of what old homophobic PSAs used to say about gay men. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_NAl4AkmjU\">One from the 1960s\u003c/a> that came with a message about gay men being predators, particularly around young boys, described homosexuality as \"a sickness that’s not visible like smallpox, but no less dangerous and contagious.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westbrook goes on:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"How dare you laugh about it, and make meme after meme. and retweet this and that, and 'I love straight boys, I love straight boys,' and make it a joke.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Okay, Tati. Point taken. But straight women have been saying the very same things about gay men for decades. As such, there is a chance that Charles was just trying to flip that script. There's no way of knowing for sure, but it's also difficult to imagine Westbrook getting this upset about a straight woman frequently expressing an attraction to gay men. It definitely feels like a double standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westbrook continues:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I loved meeting his parents. I was shocked that James, even then, was saying to his dad that every man is a little bit gay, and that there's no such thing as a straight man... So talking about that at the dinner table with his parents was kind of weird. Him talking explicitly about sex and things that he would like to do... Like, I thought around his parents that he would not behave this way, [but] it was just no big deal. Like 'sucking dick and cock'...\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>First of all, James Charles clearly needs to get the phrase \"sexuality is a spectrum\" in rotation. But let's not forget, he's only 19, and this was a private conversation amongst the closest people in his life. Isn't that when we're our most unfiltered selves? Second, while talking about sex acts in front of one's parents is definitely creepy, if the parents are tolerating it at the dinner table with zero objections, that probably says more about them and his upbringing than anything else. Maybe this one is not entirely his fault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now to the single craziest thing about this video. The lead is almost completely buried. In amongst all of that stuff about table manners and targeting straight men, Westbrook addresses Charles directly:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"You are using your fame, your power, your money, to play with people's emotions. You're threatening to ruin them. You're threatening to embarrass them, and you're doing that to have them behave sexually in your favor, even if they're straight...\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Um. Did Westbrook just suggest that Charles is sexually harassing and assaulting people, Harvey Weinstein-style? It would appear so. And if that's the case, what exactly is the point of the other 42 minutes of this video? If she is correct in her assertions, those incidents need to be documented, reported and investigated immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, as with the rest of this video, instead of focusing on the most serious and pressing issues at hand, Westbrook instead focuses on the fact that some of the people she alleges were targeted by Charles might have been heterosexual. There is a suggestion throughout this clip that gay people crossing lines with straight people is somehow worse than gay people crossing lines with gay people. It isn't. It's exactly the same thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There can be little doubt that James Charles has behaved badly on both a personal and professional level when it comes to Tati Westbrook. He himself admits that in an apology video directed at both Westbrook and her husband, James. In it, Charles says he's trying to learn from his mistakes and \"grow.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ws6nxMk6I0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It takes Charles until the middle of his video to broach the subject of his behavior with other men. He offers only:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"In regards to the boy situation, boys have been a topic that I've talked a lot about in my social media journey, and it's a topic that I wish I hadn't. I've been involved in a lot of very unique, strange situations that have left people confused or upset, and I've learned the hard way about ways that I can interact with boys that I'm interested in, and also ones that I should or shouldn't be talking to.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it stands, the world is already looking at James Charles differently. After Westbrook's video went viral, he lost 2.5 million YouTube subscribers almost instantly. But, no matter how awful he's behaved in his personal life, we shouldn't lose sight of the angle at which Tati Westbrook came at this from. Because on closer examination, her priorities seem almost as out of whack as Charles'.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Louis XIV and Oscar Wilde, meet Björk and Lady Gaga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What quality do they share, across the centuries? An innate sense of camp—the aesthetic that’s being celebrated in the new fashion mega-exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, \u003ca href=\"https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2019/camp-notes-on-fashion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Camp: Notes on Fashion\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Think Björk’s famous 2001 “swan dress,” which is in the show, and Gaga’s unforgettable 2010 raw meat dress, which isn’t (it was real meat, after all). But lest you think camp is only artifice and theatricality, flamboyance and a desire to shock, Met curator Andrew Bolton wants you to think again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are very quick to dismiss camp as being trite, glib, frivolous,” Bolton said in a weekend interview as he was putting finishing touches on the exhibit, which launches Monday evening at the star-studded Met Gala, to be co-chaired by Gaga herself, along with Serena Williams, Harry Styles, Gucci’s Alessandro Michele, and of course Vogue editor Anna Wintour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111635\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-111635\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Camp-GettyImages-1131339052-800-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"General view of the Press Event for The Costume Institute's spring 2019 exhibition "Camp: Notes on Fashion" on February 22, 2019 in Milan, Italy. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Camp-GettyImages-1131339052-800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Camp-GettyImages-1131339052-800-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Camp-GettyImages-1131339052-800-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">General view of the Press Event for The Costume Institute's spring 2019 exhibition \"Camp: Notes on Fashion\" on February 22, 2019 in Milan, Italy. \u003ccite>(Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images for The Metropolitan Museum of Art)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“But it actually has a lot of history, it’s really serious, it’s political—and it’s tragic too, disguised as humor,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exhibit is built around author Susan Sontag’s 1964 “Notes on ‘Camp,’” a 58-point essay which she dedicated to Oscar Wilde, the 19th-century poet and playwright whose camp sensibility is also featured in the show. Camp “is not a natural mode of sensibility,” she wrote. “The essence ... is its love of the unnatural, of artifice and exaggeration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-111666\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Lady-Gaga-GettyImages-1147407843-800x555.jpg\" alt=\"Lady Gaga and Brandon Maxwell attend The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2019 in New York City. \" width=\"800\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Lady-Gaga-GettyImages-1147407843.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Lady-Gaga-GettyImages-1147407843-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Lady-Gaga-GettyImages-1147407843-768x533.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lady Gaga and Brandon Maxwell attend The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2019 in New York City. \u003ccite>(Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She also called camp “something of a private code.” Bolton notes that in later years, it became mainstream, to the point where it lost much of its subversive meaning. Originating in gay culture, it slowly became assimilated into the culture at large along with other parts of gay culture, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But every so often camp comes back as a powerful influence in fashion, Bolton says, and he thinks it’s having a new moment now, because it always returns at a time of political polarization and instability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press preview on Monday, Bolton told the crowd that since he chose the subject of “camp,” everyone’s been asking two questions: “Why camp?” and “What IS camp?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so the exhibit, which features some 250 items, begins with history—and a grammar lesson. The term “camp” was first used as a French verb—\u003cem>se camper\u003c/em>, or to flaunt—in the 17th century. In a 1671 Moliere play, the character Scapin tells a fellow servant to “Camp about on one leg. Put your hand on your hip. Wear a furious look. Strut about like a drama king.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-111637\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/800px-Louis_XIV_of_France-800x1137.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of King Louis XIV by Hyacinth Rigaud, 1701 at the Musée du Louvre, Paris. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1137\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/800px-Louis_XIV_of_France.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/800px-Louis_XIV_of_France-160x227.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/800px-Louis_XIV_of_France-768x1092.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portrait of King Louis XIV by Hyacinth Rigaud, 1701 at the Musée du Louvre, Paris.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To remind us of one such drama king, there’s Louis XIV, in his official portrait: one leg in front, hand on hip, modeling his massive royal cloak, along with silk stockings and red-heeled shoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exhibit then takes us from the verb to the adjective, “campish,” which had gay connotations in the 19th century, and then to the noun, where camp first enters a Victorian dictionary in 1909, defined as “actions and gestures of exaggerated emphasis. Probably from the French.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then comes the fashion. There’s “naive camp,” which is intended to be serious but failing, versus “deliberate camp,” intended to be, well, campy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are enormous feathered dresses—Sontag wrote that camp was “a woman walking around in a dress made of three million feathers”—by Armani and by Jeremy Scott, the latter surrounded by scores of attached butterflies. Scott, a specialist in camp, also is represented by a dress of dollar bills, and his McDonald’s-themed outfits for Moschino, where he serves as creative director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From John Galliano, there are dresses that seem made of newspaper clippings and packing tape. And because the Palace of Versailles is seen as “a sort of camp [Garden of] Eden,” there’s a section of Versailles-style gowns by designers like Franco Moschino and Vivienne Westwood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Camp is ‘Swan Lake,’” Sontag wrote, so we also have Bjork’s famous swan dress by designer Marjan Pejoski, the bird’s long neck curving over the shoulder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representing what Sontag called “the convertibility of ‘man’ and ‘woman,’” designer Thom Browne contributes a man’s wedding outfit that combines a black tuxedo with a white filmy skirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And maybe there isn’t a Lady Gaga meat dress, but there’s a Jeremy Scott “prosciutto dress” (not real, this time), and his wacky TV dinner cape—with carrots, peas and corn on one side, mashed potatoes with butter on the other (they’re fake too, thankfully).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because camp “sees everything in quotation marks” (Sontag again), there is designer Virgil Abloh’s 2018 little black dress that says “Little Black Dress,” with boots that say “For Walking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s a gigantic birthday cake-like dress of cascading pink tulle by Viktor & Rolfe, which says “Less is More”—because camp is, above all, about irony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bolton says he started thinking about camp two years ago when mounting his show on Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons. 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"excerpt": "Think Björk’s famous 2001 “swan dress,” which is in the show, and Gaga’s unforgettable 2010 raw meat dress, which isn’t (it was real meat, after all.) But lest you think camp is only artifice and theatricality, flamboyance and a desire to shock, Met curator wants you to think again.",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Louis XIV and Oscar Wilde, meet Björk and Lady Gaga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What quality do they share, across the centuries? An innate sense of camp—the aesthetic that’s being celebrated in the new fashion mega-exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, \u003ca href=\"https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2019/camp-notes-on-fashion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Camp: Notes on Fashion\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Think Björk’s famous 2001 “swan dress,” which is in the show, and Gaga’s unforgettable 2010 raw meat dress, which isn’t (it was real meat, after all). But lest you think camp is only artifice and theatricality, flamboyance and a desire to shock, Met curator Andrew Bolton wants you to think again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are very quick to dismiss camp as being trite, glib, frivolous,” Bolton said in a weekend interview as he was putting finishing touches on the exhibit, which launches Monday evening at the star-studded Met Gala, to be co-chaired by Gaga herself, along with Serena Williams, Harry Styles, Gucci’s Alessandro Michele, and of course Vogue editor Anna Wintour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111635\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-111635\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Camp-GettyImages-1131339052-800-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"General view of the Press Event for The Costume Institute's spring 2019 exhibition "Camp: Notes on Fashion" on February 22, 2019 in Milan, Italy. \" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Camp-GettyImages-1131339052-800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Camp-GettyImages-1131339052-800-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Camp-GettyImages-1131339052-800-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">General view of the Press Event for The Costume Institute's spring 2019 exhibition \"Camp: Notes on Fashion\" on February 22, 2019 in Milan, Italy. \u003ccite>(Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images for The Metropolitan Museum of Art)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“But it actually has a lot of history, it’s really serious, it’s political—and it’s tragic too, disguised as humor,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exhibit is built around author Susan Sontag’s 1964 “Notes on ‘Camp,’” a 58-point essay which she dedicated to Oscar Wilde, the 19th-century poet and playwright whose camp sensibility is also featured in the show. Camp “is not a natural mode of sensibility,” she wrote. “The essence ... is its love of the unnatural, of artifice and exaggeration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-111666\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Lady-Gaga-GettyImages-1147407843-800x555.jpg\" alt=\"Lady Gaga and Brandon Maxwell attend The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2019 in New York City. \" width=\"800\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Lady-Gaga-GettyImages-1147407843.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Lady-Gaga-GettyImages-1147407843-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/Lady-Gaga-GettyImages-1147407843-768x533.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lady Gaga and Brandon Maxwell attend The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2019 in New York City. \u003ccite>(Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She also called camp “something of a private code.” Bolton notes that in later years, it became mainstream, to the point where it lost much of its subversive meaning. Originating in gay culture, it slowly became assimilated into the culture at large along with other parts of gay culture, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But every so often camp comes back as a powerful influence in fashion, Bolton says, and he thinks it’s having a new moment now, because it always returns at a time of political polarization and instability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press preview on Monday, Bolton told the crowd that since he chose the subject of “camp,” everyone’s been asking two questions: “Why camp?” and “What IS camp?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so the exhibit, which features some 250 items, begins with history—and a grammar lesson. The term “camp” was first used as a French verb—\u003cem>se camper\u003c/em>, or to flaunt—in the 17th century. In a 1671 Moliere play, the character Scapin tells a fellow servant to “Camp about on one leg. Put your hand on your hip. Wear a furious look. Strut about like a drama king.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-111637\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/800px-Louis_XIV_of_France-800x1137.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of King Louis XIV by Hyacinth Rigaud, 1701 at the Musée du Louvre, Paris. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1137\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/800px-Louis_XIV_of_France.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/800px-Louis_XIV_of_France-160x227.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/800px-Louis_XIV_of_France-768x1092.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portrait of King Louis XIV by Hyacinth Rigaud, 1701 at the Musée du Louvre, Paris.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To remind us of one such drama king, there’s Louis XIV, in his official portrait: one leg in front, hand on hip, modeling his massive royal cloak, along with silk stockings and red-heeled shoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exhibit then takes us from the verb to the adjective, “campish,” which had gay connotations in the 19th century, and then to the noun, where camp first enters a Victorian dictionary in 1909, defined as “actions and gestures of exaggerated emphasis. Probably from the French.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then comes the fashion. There’s “naive camp,” which is intended to be serious but failing, versus “deliberate camp,” intended to be, well, campy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are enormous feathered dresses—Sontag wrote that camp was “a woman walking around in a dress made of three million feathers”—by Armani and by Jeremy Scott, the latter surrounded by scores of attached butterflies. Scott, a specialist in camp, also is represented by a dress of dollar bills, and his McDonald’s-themed outfits for Moschino, where he serves as creative director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From John Galliano, there are dresses that seem made of newspaper clippings and packing tape. And because the Palace of Versailles is seen as “a sort of camp [Garden of] Eden,” there’s a section of Versailles-style gowns by designers like Franco Moschino and Vivienne Westwood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Camp is ‘Swan Lake,’” Sontag wrote, so we also have Bjork’s famous swan dress by designer Marjan Pejoski, the bird’s long neck curving over the shoulder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representing what Sontag called “the convertibility of ‘man’ and ‘woman,’” designer Thom Browne contributes a man’s wedding outfit that combines a black tuxedo with a white filmy skirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And maybe there isn’t a Lady Gaga meat dress, but there’s a Jeremy Scott “prosciutto dress” (not real, this time), and his wacky TV dinner cape—with carrots, peas and corn on one side, mashed potatoes with butter on the other (they’re fake too, thankfully).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because camp “sees everything in quotation marks” (Sontag again), there is designer Virgil Abloh’s 2018 little black dress that says “Little Black Dress,” with boots that say “For Walking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s a gigantic birthday cake-like dress of cascading pink tulle by Viktor & Rolfe, which says “Less is More”—because camp is, above all, about irony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bolton says he started thinking about camp two years ago when mounting his show on Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons. 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"disqusTitle": "Teen Suicide Spiked After Debut Of Netflix's '13 Reasons Why,' Study Says",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Netflix's \u003cem>13 Reasons Why\u003c/em> was released two years ago, depicting the life of a teenager who decided to take her own life, educators and psychologists \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/05/05/526871398/facts-about-teens-suicide-and-13-reasons-why\">warned \u003c/a>the program could lead to copycat suicides. Now, a study funded by the National Institutes of Health shows that those concerns may have been warranted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The series is filmed in and around Sonoma County, including Analy High School in Sebastopol, which stands in for the show's Liberty High School. Other filming locations have included the Epicenter Sports and Entertainment Center in northwest Santa Rosa, Friedman's Home Improvement in Petaluma, the downtown mall Santa Rosa Plaza in Santa Rosa, and various storefronts and residences in San Rafael and Vallejo. Many teenagers from Sonoma County have worked as extras on the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11741825' *ways-to-help-suicide_wide-82dd5198f71dc6f92a4adf84928322ed1a7b4ed0-1020x574.jpg'* target='_blank']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the month following the show's debut in March 2017, there was a 28.9% increase in suicide among Americans ages 10-17, said the \u003ca href=\"https://www.jaacap.org/article/S0890-8567(19)30288-6/fulltext\">study\u003c/a>, published Monday in the \u003cem>Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry\u003c/em>. The number of suicides was greater than that seen in any single month over the five-year period researchers examined. Over the rest of the year, there were 195 more youth suicides than expected given historical trends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers warn that their study could not prove causation. Some unknown third factor might have been responsible for the increase, they said. Still, citing the strong correlation, they cautioned against exposing children and adolescents to the series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The results of this study should raise awareness that young people are particularly vulnerable to the media,\" study co-author Lisa Horowitz, a staff scientist at the National Institute of Mental Health, said in a statement. \"All disciplines, including the media, need to take good care to be constructive and thoughtful about topics that intersect with public health crises.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lead author Jeff Bridge, a suicide researcher at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, told The Associated Press that an additional analysis found the April suicide rate was higher than in the previous 19 years. \"The creators of the series intentionally portrayed the suicide of the main character. It was a very graphic depiction of the suicide death,\" he said, which can lead to suicidal behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='pop_104126' *bourdain-spade-1180x692.jpg'* target='_blank']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study found that boys were far more likely than girls to kill themselves after the show debuted. Suicide rates for females did increase, but it was not statistically significant. 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"content": "\u003cp>Rodents have had a terrible reputation ever since they got unfairly blamed for that whole bubonic plague thing. (\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubonic_plague\">It was the fleas, people!\u003c/a> The fleas!) Rodent reputations have not benefited since, thanks to the fact that people more readily remember \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3U83QLoATU\">the face-eating rats\u003c/a> from George Orwell's \u003cem>1984,\u003c/em> than they do, say, Remy from \u003cem>Ratatouille\u003c/em>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Full disclosure before we get into this: I am an unapologetic rodent enthusiast. I believe that any animal that can eat with its hands is deserving of our respect. I had a multitude of hamsters growing up, and when a friend of mine found a baby rat in a pile of abandoned toys on San Francisco's Capp Street a few years ago, I took her in and gave her full reign of my home, free range, for the rest of her woefully short life. Over time, she recognized her name and came when called, and also liked going out for walks. She was basically a tiny dog with more digital dexterity and less of a life span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here she is with an avocado she stole out of my bag:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-110501 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/4423_99841439281_3496396_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/4423_99841439281_3496396_n.jpg 604w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/4423_99841439281_3496396_n-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of my love for rodents probably stems from watching a slightly surreal, British, stop-motion children's TV show called \u003cem>Bagpuss, \u003c/em>during my formative years. The mice in \u003cem>Bagpuss\u003c/em> popped up any time someone needed help. They wore tiny outfits, they cleaned, they fixed and they sang the whole time they were doing it. For four-year-olds in 1982, it really didn't get any better than this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVzAJbEkyyU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So imagine my unfiltered joy recently, when a real-life helper mouse was caught on camera, tidying up a shed in England. Little Fievel wasn't wearing a dress unfortunately, but still—the dedication to decluttering this work surface is inspiring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/itvnews/status/1108093264467505160\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arguably, rodents are some of the most underrated mammals on Earth. Like cats, mice and rats groom themselves multiple times a day. Like dogs, they are extremely social and enjoy playing (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-84UJpYFRM\">and laughing!\u003c/a>) According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.peta.org/issues/wildlife/living-harmony-wildlife/house-mice/\">PeTA\u003c/a>, they are \"less likely than dogs or cats to transmit parasites and viruses.\" Rodents are relatively easy to train and very intelligent too, which is why they've been employed as badass security operatives on more than one occasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It started in the 1970s when, somehow (and I really wish we knew how) the \u003ca href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/1415469.stm\">Royal Canadian Mounted Police figured out\u003c/a> that gerbils could smell human adrenaline. Since Israel was in the middle of a full-blown terrorism crisis at the time, the decision was made to post teams of \u003ca href=\"https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/photos/10-ways-animals-have-served-the-military/terrorist-fighting-gerbils\">gerbils at security checks\u003c/a> around Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv. If the animals smelled higher than usual adrenaline levels wafting over from nearby passengers, they'd hit a lever, alerting airport agents to the potential danger. Sadly, no footage is available of this happening, so I cannot confirm whether or not they got to wear teeny tiny police badges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While we no longer see gerbils in airports today, teams of African Pouch Rats are still hard at work, sniffing out landmines as only creatures this small and smart possibly could. Land that takes a human de-miner up to four days to cover, can be cleared by a \u003ca href=\"https://www.apopo.org/en/herorats/herorats-save-lives?gclid=CjwKCAjw-OHkBRBkEiwAoOZqlyXVkbmyvxeE0PeEdNKWdwFpx9wTcDmnlzyjddOUiQJe1MJl2D58KRoCkjMQAvD_BwE\">HeroRAT\u003c/a> in just half an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check out these banana-loving daredevils in action:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0swUc492hU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's more, pouch rats have also been trained to detect tuberculosis, and can do so \u003ca href=\"https://www.apopo.org/en/adopt\">96 times faster\u003c/a> than a lab technician, according to Apopo, an organization that has been working with the tiny detectives for over two decades now. If you fancy sending the rats some fruit or some healthcare as a thank you, \u003ca href=\"https://www.apopo.org/en/hero-gifts\">Apopo can make that happen\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One place where rats are definitely getting their due is Rajasthan in Northern India. One temple there, named after Karni Mata—a Hindu sage, healer and warrior who is said to have lived 151 years and is now an official deity—is also home to some 15,000+ rats who are thought to bring good fortune to worshippers. “We consider the rats as a form of the goddess,\" one visitor \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OOs1l8Fajc\">told \u003cem>National Geographic\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. \"We worship them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People are only permitted inside the temple barefoot, lest they squish one of the sacred rodents. The priest of the temple eats, sleeps and prays with the rats. The belief here is that when humans die, they are reborn as rats, and when rats die, they are reborn as humans. The priest believes many of the rats in his care are his deceased relatives. \"Some are my fathers, my grandfathers,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OOs1l8Fajc\">he says\u003c/a>, \"my whole family is here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Look! It's like Thanksgiving, but different:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110553\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-110553\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/GettyImages-1074715566-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Rats drink from bowl of milk at the Karni Mata temple in Deshnoke, Rajasthan on December 24, 2018. 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"content": "\u003cp>Tyler and Larry have never met. Larry is a conservative living on the East Coast. Tyler is a liberal in Indiana. If for some reason they crossed paths on the street, they wouldn't recognize each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for the last few months, they've been getting into constant fights on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before I could interview them, I had to agree not to use their real names. The online circle where they spend much of their time can get aggressive. One of them says he's even gotten death threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this month NPR is looking into \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/702738248/civility-wars\">civility in America\u003c/a>. And if you've spent any time on social media, you know that it's the opposite of a civil space. Regular conversations often turn into public, insult-laden brawls, filled with low-blows and vile threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you read through Larry or Tyler's posts, some of them are benign, even wonkish. There's Larry talking about how we should privatize Medicare and Medicaid. Tyler, meanwhile, has been tweeting lately about the Mueller investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But of course, this is Twitter, and it rarely ends well. The conversation almost always turns awful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larry will snap: \"Your idiotic posts are serious? Get the f*** out of here cretin.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which will drive Tyler nuts. \"Oh shut the f*** up you inept toad.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This can go on and on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larry says he's not proud of his online behavior. His wife, a liberal, has never seen his Twitter persona. \"I'm like, 'Please don't divorce me if you read my tweets,' \" he jokes. But when he goes online, he says, something takes over him. \"I might call it a troll mode. I'm not really trying to make a point anymore. I'm just trying to battle. And I don't like that. I don't feel good about it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyler, Larry's liberal Twitter nemesis, knows he goes overboard too. He says he just starts to get sucked into the nastiness and feels compelled to fight back in the same tone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These two are complete strangers, but they've been at each other's necks since last year. The obvious question is, why bother?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a question Tyler says his husband asks a lot: why not disconnect?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyler is a gay man who lives in a conservative state. Even though he says Larry isn't one of them, there are people in his Twitter world who Tyler says post homophobic and racist things. And he's sick of it. Like a lot of Americans, Tyler says he feels the stakes are high right now. And maybe it's just not the time to be civil on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we stop talking about racism,\" he says, \"if we stop talking about homophobia, hate towards gays, everything under the sun, then it goes [untaken] care of.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tyler says this constant fighting takes a toll. \"You find yourself thinking and feeling about the thread even if you are not on your phone. It's to where you're having panic attacks, or you're hyperventilating.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larry, the conservative, says he doesn't take Twitter so personally, but he 's been thinking about quitting. He doesn't always like the way he behaves online. But he has trouble breaking away. He'll be at a restaurant and on his phone and have an urge. \"I just gotta send this one last [tweet]! And it's like taking 10 minutes and the waitress is tapping her pencil.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though he doesn't feel intellectually stimulated by the conversation, it feels good. \"It's a fun thing to do right? So like every time you send a tweet, and you think you made a point, it feels good, and you want to keep doing it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-110663\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/robin-worrall-749755-unsplash-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/robin-worrall-749755-unsplash-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/robin-worrall-749755-unsplash-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/robin-worrall-749755-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/robin-worrall-749755-unsplash-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/robin-worrall-749755-unsplash-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/robin-worrall-749755-unsplash-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/04/robin-worrall-749755-unsplash.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The addictive qualities of social media\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There's a growing body of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/02/12/584389201/smartphone-detox-how-to-power-down-in-a-wired-world\">scientific research\u003c/a> that addresses the pleasure and anxiety both men are describing. It suggests \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/03/13/519977607/irresistible-by-design-its-no-accident-you-cant-stop-looking-at-the-screen\">social media can have addictive qualities\u003c/a>, just like a drug or a gambling habit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider the very nature of Twitter. It's more public than other media platforms. It's easier to just jump into an argument and pile on. So the whole thing can be performative. More than talking, we're showing ourselves off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though I interviewed them separately, both men came to a similar conclusion. Tyler says, \"You'd have a better chance of solving your issues over a meal, than sitting behind a phone, typing in caps.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larry reminisces about a time in which liberals and conservatives could more easily enjoy a barbecue together. \"If you're my neighbor, come over and eat, drink.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says social media are just not that good for debating difficult issues. When it comes to tough topics, 280 characters, hashtags and memes might just not be enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\"This whole conversation is annoying\"\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Fredres-McDaid family learned this lesson the hard way. A Facebook argument turned so explosive, it almost tore them apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Fredres lives in the suburbs of Chicago. His extended family, Kelly and her husband Pete McDaid live in Arizona. Even though their politics are very different (they're Democrats, he's a Republican), they've always gotten along well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until about a year ago, when Pete McDaid posted an article on Facebook suggesting that gun control would help stop mass shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fredres believes in gun rights, so he commented: \"If not guns, it would be bombs. ... When people want to hurt others, there will always be a way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got off the computer, sat down to watch the news and have breakfast. He thought that would be the end of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, what unfolded was a day's worth of nonstop arguing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In retrospect, McDaid narrates it with a chuckle. He was researching his arguments at the office. When he got back home, he was working on his comebacks like it was a project he was on deadline for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fredres says when it comes to social media arguing, \"everybody has already established what they believe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By nightfall, tempers had flared. Kelly recalls seeing her husband sitting on the edge of the bed, furiously staring into his phone. Online, responses had gotten curt. \"I just find that this whole conversation is annoying,\" Fredres snapped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly describes feeling enraged, which she says is unusual for her. And that's when she dealt a final blow: \"What the F is wrong with you? I can't believe someone that's a part of my family is so stupid,\" she replied. Both she and her husband unfriended and blocked Fredres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are three people who care about each other, and they speak about the incident with a certain awe. Kelly describes Jeff as a \"warm, friendly, outgoing person.\" Jeff says when Kelly walks into a room, people are naturally drawn to her. They fondly recall their hiking trips and triathlons they did together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A single Facebook argument swept it all away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fredres says he felt numb. \"It was surreal. It wasn't until a couple of months had passed by, and there was no longer that communication ... it started to sink in. 'Oh man. This kinda sucks.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gun control is one of the most divisive topics in our country today. Some might say there is no middle ground in that debate. But Fredres thinks \"if this whole topic would have happened in person, nobody would have walked away.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, he was right. About a year later, while visiting Arizona, he got a chance to meet Kelly and her mother for breakfast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was totally prepared for him to be really angry with me,\" Kelly says. 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As long as you are meticulous in your food planning, thorough in making sure all nutritional bases are covered and willing to dedicate a stupid amount of time to food preparation, raw-vegan can indeed work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spent three years working for a septuagenarian author in New York who had subsisted on a sugar-free, alcohol-free, raw, vegan diet for the better part of 40 years, and she was (and still is) absolutely thriving. What's more, she was in a whole community of peers, all successfully living the same way. Sure, their potlucks didn't seem like much fun to me, but they all looked at least 20 years younger than they were and could have easily outrun most 30-year-olds. The diet itself may not be compatible for everyone's bodies—including Yovana Mendoza's—but promoting it isn't an inherently negative thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By her own admission, Mendoza took health risks that have nothing to do with raw veganism. She talks in her apology video about doing a 25-day fast, during which she drank nothing but water. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/water-fasting#section1\">\u003cem>Healthline\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, water fasting that goes on for any longer than 72 hours poses a range of health risks and should not be done without medical supervision. Some of Mendoza's behavior, then, more closely resembled an eating disorder than a diet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could be argued that going to these extremes is part of trying to stand out in a never-ending sea of vloggers. Pressures on YouTube personalities to perform, keep their numbers up and maintain the illusion of perfection are well-documented. Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/105060/youtube-stars-are-burning-out-under-the-pressure-to-stay-popular\">Elle Mills\u003c/a> told her 1.3 million followers that she needed to take a break from the channel because \"trying to pump out an amazing video once every two weeks or like once every week [is] just not attainable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, Jon Brence, a career manager for various YouTube personalities, told \u003cem>NPR \u003c/em>that influencers should not take breaks ever: \"If you're not actively creating, or if you're going on a trip and you haven't actively created content to publish during said trip, you will go effectively back to the back of the line.\" Mendoza, then, was stuck in a catch-22. It would have been impossible for her to take a break to get well and it would have been a death knell for her entire brand to admit she was sick. So she carried on making Rawvana videos in order to maintain her income. 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