There's a pretty common trope for girls who have protective older brothers or dads or uncles or andy other men in their lives that those men will need to have ~ a chat ~ with whichever lucky boy (and it's always assumed to be a boy) ends up taking her on her first date. Most of the time, it's just a joke. But for Rochelle Jack, it was very much a reality.
Her brother, Shaquille Jack, tweeted the receipts that he accomplished his "brotherly duties" on Wednesday, in the form of a video in which he is thoroughly grilling a guy who came to take his sister on her first date.
"Where is this guy who's taking you on a date?" he can be heard saying in the video. "Bring him to the door, have to let him know the ground rules."
When the guy comes to the door, he's faced with questions like, "Your age, please? Your intentions with my sister, please?" And also has to answer where he works (he does tiling), what his college plans are (he's taking a gap year). It seems that his answers were satisfactory, since Jack later tweeted that "this guy did very well."
You have to let them feel your presence and see how they deal with the pressure, this guy did very well. https://t.co/I5h9j4aSoo
While we're definitely not proponents of brothers or father, or any other men, feeling that they have some kind of right to choose who their sister gets to date, it's pretty clear that this video was all in fun. Twitter thinks so, too, and had some fantastic reactions to Jack's interview.
Even Rochelle Jack retweeted the reactions to her brother's video with a, "Never living this down." But don't worry, she tells Refinery29 that her date wasn't scared off by her brother's interrogation. "I think he took it very well considering how intense my brother was," she tells Refinery29.
They had a fabulous time at dinner and, yes, he did pay the bill.
This coming Monday, August 21, a dark shadow will be cast across the United States. Apocalyptic overtones aside: No matter where you are, you will see a solar eclipse, though the completion of that eclipse will vary by city.
Most of the country will see a partial eclipse; those lucky enough to live or travel to a city that falls within the narrow path of totality, which stretches in an arc from Oregon to South Carolina, will see the moon completely cover the sun for two minutes and 40 seconds. If you're in that path, you'll also see what scientists describe as the diamond ring effect: The moment immediately before the moon fully covers the sun, when there is a faint ring of light and final flash of the sun. Either way though, you'll need to wear solar eclipse glasses if you're planning to observe.
To fully prepare, you'll need to watch a few things: The weather (clouds could get in the way of your views), the traffic if you're traveling, and the time that the eclipse will hit your region. Here's how to keep an eye on all three.
Track Traffic
The Federal High Administration estimates that about 200 million people live within a day's drive of the eclipse. This means that you can expect traffic jams on par with the usual packed state of L.A. roads — or worse. The FHA advises people to be at their viewing location at least a few hours prior to the beginning of the partial eclipse, noting that many state and local authorities will be setting up roadblocks.
Expect that traffic will be at its worst right after the moment of totality: Just like at the end of a big concert or conclusion of fourth of July fireworks, everyone will look to make a quick exit.
Head here to see the FHA's eclipse map, with detailed information about viewing locations in each of the states that falls within the path of totality.
Watch The Weather
As we get closer to the eclipse, head to the National Weather Service's eclipse website for updates on what the weather will be in your area. If there's a thunderstorm, your view could be obstructed.
Know Where & When You'll See The Eclipse
There are multiple ways to track when the eclipse will occur in your region. On your phone, three apps use your location to tell you exactly when a partial or total eclipse will begin: Timeanddate.com's Solar Eclipse 2017, the Smithsonian Eclipse 2017, and Eclipse Safari.
All of the apps are free, but for $0.99 you can upgrade to a premium version of Timeanddate.com's app which will include additional details — such as when the eclipse will reach its peak in your area. It's worth it if you want to know the best time to head outside. Interactive maps in each of the apps will also give you a sense of how the eclipse will look based on where you are.
Online, there are a few interactive maps worth using. The Eclipse Megamovie 2017 Simulator — a joint project between Google and The University of California, Berkeley — is one of the best. Simply punch in your town or zip code, and the corresponding infographic will adjust to show you when the moon will partially or totally cover the sun. This interactive Google Map and interactive eclipse "tour" from the Great American Eclipse are also useful tools. NASA's video (below) offers a view of the eclipse's path as it moves from west to east across the U.S.
UPDATE: This story has been updated to reflect the study author's comments.
While there's no real way to accurately predict whether or not a person will cheat on their partner, the old adage "once a cheater, always a cheater" exists for a reason. But is it really true?
Well, a new study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior has found some evidence for truth to that anecdotal belief.
Every couple has different definitions of what counts as cheating, but for the study, researchers examined what they called "extra-dyadic sexual involvement" (ESI), or having sexual relations with someone other than a partner.
Researchers followed 484 unmarried people (329 women and 155 men) who had been in at least two relationships over the course of five years, seeking insight on whether or not having engaged in infidelity once made a person more likely to do it again. The participants selected were all in relationships with someone of the opposite sex, though researchers say that they hope to study same-gender couples in the future.
"The goal of the study was to look at the impact of cohabitation on marital outcomes, and at the time the study began, gay marriage wasn’t legalized nationally," Kayla Knopp, MA, lead author of the study, tells Refinery29.
Participants were asked to complete surveys by mail every 4 to 6 months for 5 years, and were asked to answer questions such as, "Have you had sexual relations with someone other than your partner since you began seriously dating?"
The results?
Those who already had a history of engaging in ESI behavior were three times as likely to report cheating again in another relationship. They also found that those who had been cheated on in the past were more likely to figure out if their subsequent partners were cheating.
"The takeaway for us is that we all need to pay attention to our romantic pasts in order to make better choices for our future (or current) relationships," Knopp says. "These results suggest that if someone has struggled to stay faithful in the past, they should do some personal work to figure out why the infidelity happened so they can avoid repeating those patterns in the future. And if someone has been with an unfaithful partner in the past, they may want to pay close attention to red flags in their future relationships so they can avoid ending up in that situation again."
The researchers acknowledged that ESI may not encompass all behaviors that couples think of as infidelity, and some couples (such as those in open relationships) may not think of ESI as cheating. So while ESI is "probably accurately labeled as cheating," we won't know for sure if this applies to the average couple. Plus, it's important to note that 484 people is a relatively small sample size, and cheating is of course an extremely complex issue.
That being said, the research does provide some interesting insight into the likelihood that someone who has cheated before will cheat again — just take it with a healthy dose of skepticism and the knowledge that a person's past doesn't always indicate what they'll do in the future.
Kumail Nanjiani didn't always love Riz Ahmed. He was too talented, too refined, and Nanjiani, 39, had no choice but to despise him. Such is the competitive nature of Hollywood. Now, he loves Riz Ahmed; they're friends. The Silicon Valley actor and standup comedian penned an essay for The Hollywood Reporter about his fitful relationship with Ahmed, who became a household name with the HBO show The Night Of.
It began with Four Lions. "The first time I saw Riz was in Four Lions. He was hilarious, vulnerable and angry," Nanjiani writes. "I thought, 'I hate this guy.'"
Then, Nanjiani saw Rogue One. Nanjiani is a Pakistani immigrant and Ahmed is of Pakistani descent. Seeing an action hero on screen that resembled himself made Nanjiani soften.
"I saw a guy who looked like me playing an action hero in a Star Wars movie. And I started getting tears in my eyes. I thought of kids who looked like me seeing Riz kick ass on screen. I smiled and fought back tears. I couldn't hate him anymore," says Nanjiani.
"Not hating" is different from love, though. I don't hate Baked By Melissa cupcakes. That doesn't mean I'm ordering a 24-pack anytime soon, though. Nanjiani fell in love with Ahmed when he met the Rogue One actor in person.
Nanjiani's laundry list of Reasons To Love Riz Ahmed: "He's kind, he likes good food, and he is passionate about making South Asians feel like they are a valuable part of pop culture and the world at large."
Have we outgrown the age of sexy advertising? In The Cut's recent profile of Tom Ford, the magazine deemed the famously risqué designer as "over sex, seeking emotion." Earlier this summer, University of Illinois researcher John Wirtz reviewed nearly 80 advertising studies and concluded that sex appeal had zero correlation with propensity to buy products. In other words: sex didn't sell. And in early 2017, global publications looked around an increasingly political world and concluded that activism had replaced sex as the new ruler of marketing imagery.
Still, let's not be too quick to sound the death knell. Eckhaus Latta's spring 2017 campaign captured models mid-coitus (like, for real), and its website soon crashed under a barrage of clicks. So clearly, our penchant for the provocative remains.
For a retrospective at the sometimes titillating, sometimes controversial, and always iconic ads that got the whole world talking, click ahead.
Eckhaus Latta's spring '17 campaign is basically a "sex sells" mic drop — it features real couples (casted from where else but Craigslist) having real sex. Shout out to the photo editor who created the perfectly placed pixilation.
Before Tom Ford was all about emotion, he was busy sowing controversy with Gucci ads like this one, which was designed jointly with Carine Roitfeld and shot by Mario Testino. The pièce de résistance? A Gucci G, carefully shaved into model Carmen Kass’s pubic hair.
Yves Saint Laurent posed nude for his own label, Pour Homme, in 1971. Shot by French photographer Jeanloup Sieff, the controversial image marked the first time a perfumer appeared in his own ads.
In 1980, Calvin Klein shot a denim commercial with then 15-year-old Brooke Shields. The campaign became notorious with a single, now universally known tagline: "You want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing.“
In 1994, Eva Herzigova demonstrated the prowess of the WonderBra. Popular legends assert that the giant billboards led to traffic jams and car accidents as drivers became distracted by all that décolleté.
A decade later, Calvin Klein faced critics for using underage models. Here, 17-year-old Kate Moss leaned up against Mark Wahlberg to create an advertisement that ushered in the controversial heroin chic style.
Modern day Calvin Klein still demonstrates a commitment to controversy. This spring '16 upskirt shot drew protests, buoyed by the tagline: "I flash in #MyCalvins."
"Be Stupid" might not be the smartest tagline, but the carefree spirit captured in these photos epitomized Diesel's youth culture.
American Apparel's aesthetic was rooted in early 2000s, hipster sex appeal advertisements frequently shot by ultra creepy photographer Terry Richardson. Amidst a wave of photoshoots that could easily double for Free the Nipple billboards, this ad stood out for depicting a tights-clad model masturbating.
This 2007 Dolce & Gabbana shoot is one of the most controversial fashion campaigns of all time. Critiqued as depicting gang rape, it was banned online and in print.
These images may be designed to sell Alexander Wang's new denim line, but model Anna Ewers' pants-down pose obscures the style. In this case, it's definitely all about sex.
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You will never read this. You couldn't read even when you were alive, but I think you understood that I loved you.
One of my earliest memories is of wanting a sleek and special creature like you. When I was little I thought cats were girls, and dogs were boys. Dogs may be man’s best friend, but you were my familiar. I lived my entire adult life, to date, with you by my side.
You were the last one. No one wanted you, which is the reason I did. I guess I projected myself onto you from the start. You were black all over, like the cats witches kept in my childhood storybooks. I could hold you in one hand back then. My palm became something of your own personal Speakers' Corner: a platform from which you could broadcast your manifesto of squeaks. What were you saying? I remember wondering who I would be all those years in the future when you died before me, as I knew — barring an accident — you would. We are so insecure as teenagers. We have so much ahead of us. We don’t know what life will be.
Your adolescence, though much shorter than mine, did, for a while, coincide with it. You were quite the social butterfly, becoming a fixture on Nottingham’s after-party scene. You were used to beds full of intoxicated people, and truly it’s a wonder none of us ever squashed a wee thing like you. You learned to have your wits about you. A girl has to, in this dangerous world. You must have used up at least one of your lives during those early, hedonistic days.
You know how many people I have slept with these past 10 years. At least the ones I brought home. You never once slut-shamed me.
You slept in my bed every night and made sure that no seagulls came through the window. Thanks for that. I see now that you kept all sorts of demons at bay during those difficult college years. I was dangerously isolated and would often not leave the house for weeks at a time, but I was never alone with you there for a cuddle.
Of course, you never chose to be my friend. You seemed to like me, but I suppose it could have just been Stockholm Syndrome.
I tried to build a nice life for us in London and threw regular dinner parties but you turned your nose up at the fingers that reached out to pet you. You were cool in the face of celebrity. I don’t think anyone could accuse you of being particularly friendly with strangers, although if someone had a stash of weed in their bag you could become rather charming. Not to mention the mere hint of a tin of tuna being opened. I simply could not make a tuna sandwich without offering you some. I’d never have heard the end of it.
I don’t know why you liked to fall asleep with your head nuzzled into my housemate’s armpit, or sit outside the bathroom whenever I took a bath, as though I were Cleopatra bathing in milk and you a Roman guard. Or why you liked to lie on newspapers or chew the corner of other people’s Arcade Fire records, and couldn’t stand to see two people cuddling without demanding to be included, but you did.
I may have been harsh on you at times. I showed you clips of cats on the internet doing all sorts of amazing things and openly lamented what a disappointment you had been. I was wrong. If you never learned to surf it was only because I never took the time to teach you. I’m sorry.
I projected so much onto you. But you were just you, in the end. I wonder what you thought of me. I suspect I was just your Tuna Lady.
Two years ago, you became seriously ill. I think you understood that we were trying to help you, even if you resented going to the vet. For a year, I had to force pills down your throat every night. I tried to crush them up and hide them in your food, but you were having none of it. You clearly thought I was the devil, forcing your jaw open. Well, I thought your breath stunk of cat food.
Eventually we took you for an operation that left you in pain and so fragile it broke my heart. My relationship with the man I loved ended in horrendous circumstances that same night, doubly breaking me. I’m sorry you had to see that.
I couldn’t sleep in my bedroom. It was just too painful. I couldn’t lie in the bed I’d shared with him so I came into the living room with you. Having you by my side made me feel less alone. It always has.
After a month, I tried to go back into my room but I lay there, wide awake, 'til 6.30am before crawling into my housemate’s bed after he left for work. When I woke up a few hours later, I hauled my mattress back into the living room and you jumped up onto it.
I didn’t know it, but supporting me through this would be your final act of love.
This is Wee Tyra. She's a useless wee thing. She's not very well and has to go to cat hospital next month so please do send her lots of ❤️ pic.twitter.com/vL3YELv8Xk
On a Wednesday you went into my bedroom and lay down. I think you wanted to be alone and sensed it had become the loneliest place in the house, where something else had died. You had a knack for knowing where you should be. You always seemed to be able to locate the most luxurious spot to take a nap, and had an almost sixth sense for when fresh sheets were about to come out of the dryer.
This time you crawled behind my bookshelf and hid your face. You were unresponsive to affection or food. I knew you were dying.
It is not just the animal and friendship we miss but the life we lived with them.
I used to judge people who talked to their pets. And here I am writing to you — look how silly you’ve made me! I’m sorry to anyone I’ve dismissed when they were mourning a pet. I didn’t understand. It is not just the animal and friendship we miss but the life we lived with them. You were my youth. I cannot live those years again, just as you cannot live your life again. We are trapped in time as all living things are, pinned by fate to the here and now.
I thought your death was going to push me into a deep depression but to my surprise it has had the opposite effect: I am irrepressibly happy to be alive again. That may also have something to do with the new meds I’m taking but the point is, Wee Kitten, life is short and full of loss. We don’t have time to lose. And I find, thank God, that I am fairly happy with the person I became. I think the teenager who brought you back all those years ago would be impressed with the woman who buried you last month. Or at least I hope so. I can’t ask her.
On her behalf, I can thank you for teaching me to be responsible, and to love. For the warmth, laughter and affection. I’m still in the living room. I don’t care what people think. I’m writing this in your favorite spot — I wish you were here, you Wee Thing.
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Another woman has alleged that disgraced film director Roman Polanski sexually assaulted her, bringing the total number of accusers to three, reports the New York Times.
Celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred is representing the new accuser, whose name is being identified as "Robin." They held a press conference on Tuesday, in which Robin stated that Polanski "sexually victimized" her. She specifically claimed that the alleged assault occurred when she was 16, in 1973. "I am speaking out now so that Samantha and the world will know that she is not the only minor Roman Polanski victimized," said Robin.
Allred has previously represented one of Polanski's other accusers: Charlotte Lewis, an English actress who contends that the director assaulted her in 1983, when she was 16 years old. Lewis said that she came forward to protest how Polanski's legal team was "portraying his previous offense against a minor as an isolated instance."
Polanski was first accused of drugging and raping Samantha Geimer in in 1977 when she was 13. He pleaded guilty to unlawful sex with a minor as part of a plea agreement. Before his sentencing, he fled to Switzerland and France to avoid jail time and has not been extradited to the United States. Were he to return to the US, or travel to a country that would extradite him, he would face a prison sentence for his 1997 assault. Geimer has attempted to have the case dropped, citing damage to her family, and that request is currently working its way through the courts.
If you have experienced sexual violence and are in need of crisis support, please call the RAINN Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).
Madonna is America’s uncontested Queen of Pop, but for the past three years, the boundary-breaking star has been depriving her U.S. audience of one major thing: her skin-care line. Fans have been begging for the icon to bring the beauty goods stateside since MDNA Skin launched exclusively in Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea in 2014, but it wasn’t until late last year that Madonna finally divulged that the U.S. release was on its way — and on September 26, those little prayers will officially be answered.
“I’m tired of hearing people complain here that they can’t get [MDNA Skin] in America,” Madonna, who co-developed the current nine-product lineup help from the Japan-based beauty and wellness company MTG, told WWD in an exclusive interview announcing the news. Every product in the collection is formulated with M.T. Parca, a proprietary ingredient derived from four natural springs in Montecatini, Italy, where MDNA Skin was granted special permission to utilize the city’s thermal waters and healing fango clay.
The prices are what you’d likely expect from a skin-care line helmed by Madonna: They range from $50 for The Face Wash to $600 for the Rejuvenator Set, which includes her much-Instagrammed Chrome Clay Mask (which retails separately for $180) and what’s described as a removal and penetration device. That said, there’s real technology behind the MDNA Skin products, not just a celebrity face.
“Madonna doesn’t do anything half-assed,” said her go-to dermatologist Paul Jerrod Frank, MD, who helped her figure out the best way to approach establishing her own skin-care brand. “She is not a dermatologist; she doesn’t know about formulations and packaging … [but] she knows what she likes, and what she likes has done well in the general population.” Given that she holds the Guinness World Records title of the best-selling female recording artist of all time, it’s probably safe to say that Madonna is very in tune with the general population.
The line will be sold at mdnaskin.com, barneys.com, and Barneys New York counters on Madison Avenue and Beverly Hills starting September 26, so if you’ve been coveting that clay mask for months, you’re just weeks — and $600 — away from finally scoring it for yourself.
When I started watching Pretty Little Liars, I was around the same age as Aria Montgomery, played in the show by Lucy Hale. Prone to a teacher crush or two myself, I was excited that Aria's dashing English teacher, Ezra Fitz (Ian Harding), actually reciprocated her affection, even though that was the Number One Thing teachers shouldn't do.
Aria and Ezra's teacher-student affair was thrilling to me at the time — and that is absolutely problematic. Teacher-student affairs in pop culture are often depicted as a triumph of love conquering societal constraints. Romances like Aria and Ezra's know no bounds, including legal ones. With all their flourishes of sentimentality and sexiness, these shows tend to forget what these affairs really are examples of: statutory rape.
“The more we perpetuate the fantasy of the young student and the teacher, this attractive, kind, thoughtful, older figure ushering them into the world of sexuality, the harder it is as a young person to really identify when crossing the line into a nonconsensual experience because of the power imbalance,” Dr. Logan Levkoff told Teen Vogue.
Though Aria, Ezra, and their wedding has been the most prominent example of a teacher-student relationship in recent years, the trope pops up in almost every teen TV show. The vast majority of examples feature an English teacher, an age gap, and a dramatic fallout.
While not all of the entries on this list take place in high school, all feature an age and status gap. Here are the TV teacher-student affairs we really should think twice about.
Troy (Brandon Bell) & Professor Neika Hobbs (Nia Long) on Dear White People
As the son of a college dean, Troy grew up socializing among Winchester University's academics. Most of the time, he just schmoozes and help's bolster his father's reputation. His relationship Neika Hobbs, professor of African American studies, goes beyond mindless chatter.
For the past two years, they've been carrying on a seriously torrid (and very secret) affair. They've even appropriated the the crew boathouse as a love-den.
Neika says she won't marry her partner, Monique, because “we want to enjoy our love pure and untouched by heteronormative culture," but Troy probably has something to do with it.
Ezra Fitz (Ian Harding) & Aria Montgomery (Lucy Hale) on Pretty Little Liars
Ah, the mother of all student-reacher relationships. The forbidden love affair between an English teacher and his junior-year student forms the crux of so much action in Pretty Little Liars. Eventually, it's even normalized. Aria's parents are aware she's dating her teacher. By the end of the show, they get married.
Paige Michalchuk (Lauren Collins) & Matt Oleander (Christopher Jacot) on Degrassi: The Next Generation
Degrassi was putting high-schoolers in committed relationships with their high-school teachers long before Pretty Little Liars made it a storyline. Paige and her "media immersion" teacher (it was the early 2000s) act on their mutual attraction, but struggle to find privacy. Even though Mr. Oleander is only three years older than Paige, it's still illegal, of course.
Eventually, they get caught together by Paige's friend's dad. When confronted by the principal, Matt denied they were dating, and instead said Paige was stalking him. He eventually leaves Paige so he can pursue a free and easy lifestyle.
Chris (Joe Dempsie) & Angie (Siwan Morris) on Skins
Chris is his friend group's lovable rascal. While his life is far from together, he has an undeniable charm – one that his psychology teacher, Angie, succumbs to on a field trip in Russia. Their on-again, off-again relationship leaves broken marriages and job changes in its wake.
Doug Ross (George Clooney) & Harper Tracy (Christine Elise) on ER
John Carter (Noah Wyle) is crazy for his new girlfriend, Harper, a fellow medical student. Unfortunately for John, she cheats on him with Doug Ross (Clooney), a doctor at the hospital, soon after they start dating.
Brooke Davis (Sophia Bush) & Nick Chavez (Rey Valentin) on One Tree Hill
In a similar setup to many of these student-teacher relationships, Brooke and Nick meet outside of the high school setting. Brooke arrives to the first day of school and is shocked to find Nick, her summer fling, is also going to be her English teacher. Nick's shocked as well – Broke had been lying about her age all along.
Despite their new relationship's confines, Brooke and Nick continue to date until Nick cheats on her with his model friend.
Riley Finn (Marc Blucas) & Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gillar) in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Riley's everything that Buffy's ex-boyfriend, Angel (David Boreanaz) was not: cheery where Angel was brooding, talkative where Angel was pensive. Considering that Riley was a part of the special operations team which combatted the demons of Sunnydale, California, he and his new girlfriend also shared the same extracurricular activities.
Even if Riley was a good fit for Buffy, that doesn't make the fact that he was her teaching assistant when they met any less inappropriate.
Miss French (Musetta Vander) & her students on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
An attractive new teacher to Buffy's high school captivates the attention of her male students. Oddly enough, Miss French seems eager to invite the slobbering boys over to her house. Why would she give in to their advances? Naturally, Miss French turns out to be a carnivorous preying mantis with an appetite for virgins. She's luring the boys to their doom.
Pacey Witter (Joshua Jackson) & Tamara Jacobs (Leann Hunley) on Dawson's Creek
On the very first episode of Dawson's Creek, freshman Pacey strikes up a flirtation (one far smoother than anything most 15-year-olds could muster) with his very eager 36-year-old English teacher.
"I'm the best sex you'll never have," Pacey tells Miss Jacobs, trying to convince her to start something. She kisses him. What?!
Stuart (Fred Savage) & Topanga (Danielle Fishel) on Boy Meets World
The "cool teacher" on campus comes to Topanga's dorm room to help with her paper. Smug and confident, Stuart uses her paper on morality as a springboard for making a move on her.
"I'm your teacher and I find you attractive. And now we're not talking about the paper. Is that crossing the line?" he asks.
It's a completely uncomfortable scene, and one that exposes the uneven power dynamics inherently present in all sexual relationships between teachers and students.
Kelly Kapowski (Tiffani-Amber Thiessen) & Jeremiah Lasky (Patrick Fabian)on Saved By the Bell: The College Years
Professor Lasky is the kind of guy who'd assign students an anthropology assignment on discovering women's wants. Is that assignment bananas, or what?
Lasky ends up having a brief affair with his student Kelly, who drops out of his class so there's less of a "conflict." After Lasky ends the relationship, Kelly goes back to her high-school boyfriend, Zack (Mark-Paul Gosselaar).
Ross Gellar (David Schwimmer) & Elizabeth Stevens (Alexandra Holden) on Friends
On the aptly titled episode, "The One Where Ross Dates a Student," Ross receives an anonymous and flirtatious note from a student. It turns out to be from Elizabeth, a student who asks him out shortly after. Ross and Elizabeth begin dating, even though professors are forbidden from dating students. Ross even accompanies her to Florida on spring break so she doesn't meet other guys.
Their relationship becomes even more complicated after Ross fails to impress Elizabeth's father, Paul (Bruce Willis). Trying to be a pal, Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) starts dating Paul, thinking she can sway his opinion of Ross. Eventually, Ross breaks up with Elizabeth, finding their 12-year age gap is too much to overcome.
Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley) & Rachel Carr (Laura Breckenridge) on Gossip Girl
For the elite Manhattan set who attend Constance Billard high school, Miss Carr is exotic — she's from Iowa. She dares to give Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) a B on a paper, thus "threatening" Blair's chances at Yale. During that time of conflict, Rachel starts an affair with Dan. Eventually, she moves back to Iowa.
Frank Rossitano (Judah Friedlander) & Lynn Onkman (Susan Sarandon) on 30 Rock
Frank was 14 when he began a relationship with his teacher, Lynn. As a result of the affair, Lynn goes to prison for over a decade, and Frank never matures emotionally. When Lynn is released from prison, they rekindle their relationship.
Their new romance creates problems between Frank and his overbearing Italian mother, Sylvia (Patti LuPone), with whom he still lives. Frank's boss, Liz Lemon (Tina Fey), helps to mitigate the conflict.
“This isn’t creepy because you’re dating your teacher. It’s creepy because you’re dating your mother," says Liz, pointing out how similar Lynn and Sylvia are.
Like Aria and Ezra's on Pretty Little Liars, Geraldine and Archie's affair starts the summer before the school year begins. And, as with the central romance on Pretty Little Liars, their affair is ripe with manipulation and mind tricks.
Lip Gallagher (Jeremy Allen White) & Helene Runyon (Sasha Alexander) on Shameless
Thinking he's going to have to leave school as a result of financial aid issues, Lip seizes the moment and kisses his married professor during office hours. So begins their affair. Helene's husband catches them while they're hooking up, but that doesn't prove to be a big deal. Conveniently, her husband is into voyeurism.
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October 31 is fast approaching, which means all supermarkets and drugstores are brimming with Halloween decorations. But if the price tag of a chain of pumpkin lights is making you pause, never fear. You can save your budget and engage your creative muscles at the same time.
Halloween is a holiday that calls for imagination in hyperdrive. Not only do you have the opportunity to conjure the perfect costume, you can decorate your home exactly as you see fit. It's a decorator's paradise! Now is the time to grab your pipe cleaners and make like Martha Stewart. Yes, you can craft all of your Halloween decorations.
Ahead, we've gathered the best crafts the internet has to offer. That's the treat. The trick is that you actually have to make them.
From dishware to door decorations, these Halloween-themed projects will keep your house properly festive through the spookiest season of the year.
DIY Pumpkin Gumball Machine Go unconventional with your pumpkin this year by making a haven of gumball glory. The best part? You won't have to bother with messy pumpkin carving.
Photo: Courtesy of Studio DIY.
DIY Monster Wreath Fact: Furry purple monsters are adorable. Who says Halloween has to be all about scary stuff? This wreath, made from a feather boa and giant googly eyes, will greet trick-or-treaters without spooking them.
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Balloon-Dipped Candy Corn Mason Jars These mason jars may look painted, but they're actually just wrapped in balloons! All you'll need to make these adorable Halloween-themed glasses is orange, yellow, and white balloons.
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Test Tube Shot Glass Holders Your Halloween bash isn't complete without creepy shots! Make these colorblocked holders to keep test tube shots upright during the spooky soiree.
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DIY Punkin Pumpkins Not super skilled with a pumpkin-carving knife? Honestly, who is? Here's a secret: If you paint your pumpkins, you won't have to carve them.
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Faux Pumpkin Fall Vases What makes these pumpkins faux, you ask? Michael's sells fake pumpkins called funkins that you can actually carve! The advantage of a fake pumpkin is that it doesn't go bad. These painted vases can last all October without the scent of rot! Heck, they can last a whole year! Five years!
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Halloween Pop-Up Table Runner Frame your Halloween bites with a haunted tableau using this charming table runner. Haunted houses aren't scary when they're surround by snacks!
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Halloween Thaumatrope This Thaumatrope is less of a decoration and more of a toy — a really, really captivating toy. As you spin the stick, the spider spins a web before your eyes. Halloween magic!
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Halloween Felt Garland Keep things classy with an elegant felt wreath on your front door that only hints at horrors to come.
Recycled Book Pumpkins Breathe new life into your old textbooks by transforming it into a festive pumpkin: All you'll need to jazz it up is a pair of scissors and orange paint.
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Sometimes, asking if our partner wants to have "sex" just doesn't feel creative enough. Luckily, we can always count on Urban Dictionary, pop culture, and the wit of creative youths to expand our vocabulary.
Of course, slang terms for "sex" have always been part of our lexicon. In recent history, there was "smush" of Jersey Shore fame, the now-ubiquitous "Netflix & chill," and let's never forget "Bang Bang Bangity Bang" from How I Met Your Mother.
So if, for whatever reason, "sex" just doesn't nail what you're trying to describe, we've rounded up some of our favorite words for "sex" that aren't "sex." Get ready to up your dirty talk game.
This may have meant something other than sex once upon a time, but these days, when you meet up to "Netflix and chill," you're almost definitely meeting up to watch 15 minutes of a movie then have sex.
He asked if I wanted to come over to watch Netflix and chill, so of course I'm bringing condoms.
Before we got to the main event, I gave him throat.
While accepting her Trailblazer Award at Glamour UK 's Women of the Year event in 2015, Amy Schumer said, "I’m probably like 160 pounds right now, and I can catch a dick whenever I want." And lo, a highly athletic way of saying "get laid" was born. This one is a bit specific, though, since it only applies to those who are indeed looking to have sex with someone who has a penis.
My Friday night plans consist of drinks, dancing, and possibly catching a dick.
Just like a one-night stand, except you don't stay over after hooking up.
I kept things to a half-night stand, since her apartment was pretty gross and I wanted to sleep in my own, clean bed.
Sometimes, my partner and I will smash after a really heated debate.
In his bedroom jam "The Morning," The Weeknd urges the sex workers he addresses throughout the song to "put in work," a.k.a. have sex and get paid. However, since the song's debut, people have used this phrase to refer to having sex without the getting paid aspect.
We put in work last night — like, at least two or three times.
Usually followed by "that" or "that ass," "tap" refers to sex in the most basic and efficient way.
Friend: How did your date go last night?
Me:I tapped that ass. Simple as that.
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If these past ten years have felt a little bleak, it's because there's been a severe lack of Aly & AJ in our lives. The sister duo, who dominated your iPod shuffle in the early 2000s with hits like "Potential Breakup Song" and "Like Whoa," have returned in full force with "Take Me," their first single since the iconic album Insomniac, that proves they're all grown up — without losing the all girl band 's signature stuck-in-your-head-all-day, danceable flair.
Now streaming on Spotify and Soundcloud, "Take Me" is just the start of Aly and AJ Michalka's re-entry into the world of music. Ten years ago, they were not so optimistic.
"Aly and I felt personally discouraged by music in general," AJ says in a press release for the new single about their break from the industry. "We still had so much to prove to people, even though we had made a mark in the industry. It honestly was overwhelming."
While the women owe a lot to their early success, their initial music felt like they were pandering to be mainstream, rather than creating something from their heart.
"We were scared to write, we didn’t like what was coming out of our instruments - it felt like we weren’t going anywhere," Aly added.
However, inspiration finally arrived thanks to their collaboration with Jamie Sierota, a former member of Echosmith, and Ryan Spraker. "Take Me" was born, and while you may have traded your iPod for your iPhone and your hair-crimper for a blowout, Aly & AJ are still making music that you can't help but dance along to.
We can't wait to hear what comes next. Listen to the new song below!
We can always count on Chrissy Teigen to keep it real. The model isn’t afraid to talk about her period skin, her love of fast-food, or in this case, the difficulties of being keeping your ensemble together when your child is, well, tugging at your clothing.
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Earlier this month, Teigen and her husband, John Legend, took the most glamorous vacation to Italy with their 16-month-old baby girl, Luna. And while she served look after look, her Venice outfits were especially compelling, considering the temperature hovered around 95 degrees. Still, she wore long-sleeved printed jumpsuits and little black dresses and shared it all with us on Instagram. One particular photo, however, didn't make the cut.
“If anyone sees a photo floating around of me with my entire cleavage hanging out, sitting in the middle of a square in Venice, it’s because Luna broke both of my buttons — ripped them off and threw them to the side,” she told People magazine. “I feel like I haven’t gotten the chance to explain. Kids don’t care. That’s why you have to laugh all of that stuff off because you never know what you’re getting into.”
My condolences to all Amber Rose-Val Chmerkovskiy 'shippers out there: Chmerkovskiy has officially moved on. The Dancing with the Stars professional told The Insider that he's in deep with his new girlfriend, dancer Jenna Johnson, as per Us Weekly.
"You know, I’m in a great place and I’m in love," he said. "I’m very grateful for that."
Johnson, 23, has a bit of a history with Chmerkovskiy — call them the Ross and Rachel of the Dancing with the Stars franchise, which has a habit of producing couples. The two dated briefly in 2016, only to break up shortly thereafter.
"We decided to end our relationship a week ago, and did so with humility and understanding,” Chmerkovskiy wrote on Instagram. “She’s an amazing woman that I feel very lucky to have gotten to know and love. An amazing mother, an awesome friend, a loving human period. Reserved, poised, and loyal. To stress that to the more common, ‘she loyal af.'"
Then, there were signs in June of 2017 that Chmerkovskiy and Johnson were doing the relationship tango again. Corresponding photos of the two in Rome suggested that they were vacationing together. It also appeared that Johnson and Chmerkovskiy attended Petra Murgatroyd's wedding to Maksim Chmerkovskiy together. Now, the two are all over each other's Instagrams and Chmerkovskiy is saying "in love" with Johnson.
When someone passes away, there are many logistics to deal with that make the mourning process even more complicated than it already is. One of the more recent complications relates to our online presence and social media accounts: What should happen to those things when we die?
This is the issue Facebook is addressing today in a personal blog post about how it deals with someone’s account after they die, and the challenges that can arise in trying to take the "right" measures. Monika Bickert, Facebook’s Director of Global Policy Management, wrote the post as part of “Hard Questions,” a conversation board of sorts that the company launched this past June to “talk more openly about some complex subjects.” Today’s memorialization post is the third in the ongoing series — the first was a post on countering terrorism, and the second was a timely discussion about how Facebook handles hate speech.
Bickert writes her personal experience: In the post "What should happen to people’s online identity when they die?," she recounts the days following the death of her husband.
“For months after Phil died, I’d cry when I’d receive an Amazon email prompting him to order his regular shipment of secondhand detective novels, or a message from his pharmacy cheerfully reminding him that his chemotherapy was ready for pickup,” Bickert writes. “Even now, I pause whenever I log into Facebook and see a post of mine resurfaced from years ago. I worry it will be one of the many I shared with friends over the course of Phil’s battle with cancer, detailing his progress and hinting at our naïve faith that he would continue to beat the odds.”
Bickert notes the challenging duality to digital assets in death: On the one hand, having someone’s Instagram, Facebook, and other social media accounts means we'll have access to far more pictures and memories than we would have otherwise. But resurfacing those photos and posts can also make mourning more painful.
When someone passes away, there are currently two options for how to handle their Facebook account. If you can provide documentation that you are a family member — with a birth certificate, estate letter, or other verifiable means — as well as an obituary or memorial card, you can ask that the account be removed completely. If you prefer the account be memorialized, you can submit a memorialization request. A memorialized account remains on Facebook with all of the content posted before the person’s passing visible. However, the word “remembering” is included by the person’s name to indicate that they are no longer living. Memorialized profiles don’t appear in what Facebook deems “public spaces” — you will never see a birthday reminder or friend suggestion for the deceased.
In all cases, Bickert explains in the post, Facebook attempts to make decisions that respect what the deceased would have wanted for their account. But there's an element that's somewhat similar to the challenges of traditional funeral rites: “Sometimes, however, we simply don’t know what the person would have wanted,” she writes. “If a bereaved spouse asks us to add her as a friend to her late husband’s profile so she can see his photos and posts, how do we know if that’s what her husband would have wanted? Is there a reason they were not previously Facebook friends? Does it mean something if she had sent him a friend request when he was alive and he had rejected it? What if the wife had simply never been on Facebook until after her husband’s death?”
The list of complications goes on and on, including questions around what to do if one family member wants an account memorialized, while another wishes it be taken down. There's also the question of what to do with someone’s private messages (even if a parent requests these, The Electronic Communications Privacy Act and Stored Communications Act, prevents Facebook from sharing them).
The latter is an exception: In many cases, there aren’t laws around digital assets of the deceased. “Despite our efforts to respect the wishes of those who pass away and those who survive them, we still encounter difficult situations where we end up disappointing people,” Bickert writes. All of this is to say that there is no “right” way to deal with the accounts of those who have passed away, and until there are laws, these conversations continue to evolve.
The best option is to approach your Facebook account as you would approach the creation of a will. The social media platform’s version of legacy estate handling is referred to as a legacy contact. Assigning a trusted friend or family member as your legacy contact will give them some management controls over your profile whenever you pass away. That person still has some restrictions: They can’t remove friends, read messages, delete past posts and photos, and log into the account.
"What’s important to me is that people know they have options and that if they use a legacy contact, then they can make choices now that will make things easier for those they leave behind if they pass away,” Bickert told Refinery29.
As inconsequential as it might sound now, your social media accounts will be one of the most visible and connected elements you leave behind after passing away. If you’re going to take the time to do formal estate planning, you might as well take a few minutes to consider your social profiles, too.
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In one fell swoop, Taylor Swift just deleted ALL her Instagrams photos, removed her profile picture from Twitter and Facebook, and has nothing but a black screen for her website. SOMETHING. IS. COMING. And as a long-time, die-hard Taylor Swift fan, I'm absolutely losing it right now. Nothing Tay does is an accident, so this scrubbing of photos is clear sign of a rebranding — and why else would you rebrand unless some new music is dropping soon?
I mean, just look. Here is her Instagram:
And Twitter:
And Facebook:
And website, all black:
Her music is still all on Spotify, something she did quite recently, and you better believe I'm refreshing her page every second to see if it's the moment her new era finally begins. After all, it's been around three years since her last album, 1989, was released, and a year since she left public life entirely thanks to the drama with Kim Kardashian.
More recently, the singer has been in the news for going to court this month after she claimed a Denver radio show host inappropriately touched her during a concert meet-and-greet in June 2013. The DJ sued Swift for defamation after she went public about the incident, but his case was dismissed. Shortly after, she successfully sued the DJ for a symbolic $1, and pledged to donate money to foundations that help survivors of sexual assault.
Whatever's happening now, it's big, and is it too much for me to ask that it happens today? It's a Friday, after all, and there's nothing I want more than to go into the weekend with some fresh new Taylor Swift jams to keep me going.
A little over a month ago, Beyoncé treated us to our very first glimpse of her and Jay-Z’s twin babies Sir and Rumi. Though we had been waiting for the moment for five months, which, let’s face it, feels like three lifetimes in 2017, the one photo didn’t satisfy our burning need to see and know all about our chosen royal family. Instead, it ignited in us an even stronger craving for more photos of Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Blue Ivy, Sir, and Rumi. Always a clever businesswoman, that may have been the singer’s plan all along because she just dropped a new collector's edition of the How To Make Lemonade box set that includes exclusive photos of Beyoncé and her family, and it costs a cool $300.
The new limited-edition box set comes with a 600-page hardcover coffee table book. According to Beyoncé's website, the book features "hundreds of never-before-seen photos from the making of Lemonade, and shows the inspiration and themes behind some of the film’s most provocative and cryptic moments." It will also have some of our queen's personal writing, a foreword from Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, and poetry by Warsan Shire.
In addition to the book, this version of the How To Make Lemonade box set comes with audio and visual album downloads and the first pressing of the double LP vinyl with a new track listing.
Now, it's important for you to know that, though the book definitely includes exclusive photos of Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Solange, and Blue Ivy, as confirmed by People, we don't know if the new twins will be featured. So, take that into consideration before you drop the big bucks. The 600-page book is available today, but according to Beyoncé's website, there are "limited quantities." That unfortunately means you may not have too much time to mull over this $300 purchase, so maybe just go for it?
Let me start out by saying that it actually PAINS me to write this. Admittedly, one of my guilty pleasures is reality television, so I’ve binge watched Love & Hip Hop enough times to have felt some sentimental pride for my girl Cardi B’s recent come-up. That’s probably how I was able to jam to her single “Bodak Yellow” several dozen times before ever watching the music video, which has now become the biggest YouTube hit by a female rapper since Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda.”
In the opening verse of the song, Cardi B greets us in a cultural abaya dress and headscarf, with a camel chilling as a prop in the background. The scene is then complemented with cuts to imagery of a fire sword-dancing belly dancer, a man dressed up like a sheikh with shades and sneakers sitting next to a hookah pipe, exotic animals, loose diamonds and cash, and Cardi B seductively peeking from behind a see-through face veil.
It’s important to note that Cardi B’s single came out back in June, but it was only after the music video’s release that it started trending and soon shot up to number 24 on iTunes’ top song list. Now, it’s jumped up into the Billboard top 10 chart. Needless to say, the song is impossible to ignore.
Cardi B is not in any way connected to the Arab heritage or the Middle East: she’s from Trinidadian and Dominican descent, and rocks it with pride on her Instagram. There’s no reason for her to evoke Middle Eastern imagery in her video except to play dress up, and in a way that perpetuates harmful preconceived notions of the region. By taking bits and pieces of a Western-constructed fantasy of the Middle East — often as hedonistic, ultra-luxurious, and overly sexualized — which has always been far from representing the actual reality of the people and culture, Cardi B’s work is orientalist at best.
Orientalism is using figments of a culture to cast its entire people with one broad – usually racist – stroke. Her work is definitely in good company. The orientalist evocation of the Middle East is a fave in hip-hop culture: Fabolous just threw an Arab-themed “Fabu Dhabi” birthday party. Busta Rhymes made the infamous “Arab Money” song. Even Queen Bey herself used Arabic music and the depiction of belly dancers in one of her live performances of “Naughty Girl.”
It’s impossible to overlook that blackness has been literally hijacked by mainstream America. What seemed to start as black appropriation at first is now visibly the foundation of American pop culture itself. Lest we forget that Miley Cyrus just used her white privilege to reinvent herself back into a wholesome country girl after using it to totally claim ownership over twerking on a national stage. And, yes, even light-skinned Arab artists have built careers off black culture as well. Is DJ Khaled ringing in your ears right now?
The thing is that Africa was one of the biggest subjects of this distorted Western lens of orientalism: alongside grotesque “scientific studies” of black central African women as foreign objects as compared to European white women, there was French colonizers’ depiction of Algeria as a distant exotic land and the oversexualization of Algerian women as naked haremesses and sexual objects for penetrative conquest. Orientalism has become a defining tool in the problematic way we see the Middle East of sheikhs and oil mongers, and, by extension, Arab and Muslim women, solidifying a binary of us being either lewd seductresses or oppressed heathens. Both ways, we’re from a whole other world.
The problem of orientalism in pop culture is symptomatic of a larger Western infrastructure of anti-blackness, where anything outside of the realm of whiteness is pushed to the fringes of society, albeit with levels to it. Muslims have become a racialized minority in the United States, catalyzed by 9/11 and underscored by 45’s presidency. The post-9/11 era of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab hatred has robbed these identities of any nuance, with “Arab” and “Muslim” often used interchangeably with each other to loosely define a dark-skinned abstract “other.”
This makes it more clear, then, how 45 could become elected president based largely on his policy platform on Muslims, when the vast majority of Americans have never had a Muslim friend. The language used throughout the election to discuss the issue of Muslim Americans implied that we don’t exist as actual members of the society we call home – we are still somehow distant, detached, other. That’s how talks of a Muslim Ban and even Muslim internment camps become socialized as both normal and possible even in the context of our constitutional democracy — in the same way that the constitution has tiptoed around acknowledging black equality since its inception.
The sad irony is that Arab culture, especially in Gulf countries, is often anti-black itself. The lowly employment and mistreatment of dark-skinned immigrant workers has been regularly documented, and even black Arabs themselves endure common social ostracization in society. That’s not to say that popular anti-Arab or anti-Muslim attitudes don’t exist within African-American communities. The nod to Arab culture in hip-hop could be a unique expression of black reclamation through the use of pop culture. However, black Arabs themselves are largely absent from the picture, and artists like Cardi B could use more responsible and less stereotype-perpetuating imagery that’s as outdated as that of Aladdin. (Yes, that, too, is a problematic fave.)
The beauty of this marriage between hip-hop and an affinity for Middle Eastern heritage is that hip-hop was fundamentally born as a subculture to celebrate blackness, and in effect reject white-dominant society through art. Hip-hop quickly rose to become one of the most formidable challengers of anti-blackness in America and on the global stage. Orientalism of the Middle East is one of the lasting remnants of colonization, which was born from Western attitudes of anti-blackness and racial subjugation. It’s in our best interest to preserve hip-hop as one of the most potent spaces for a rejection of all forms of that white supremacy and to recognize our interconnected stakes in black emancipation.
This story originally appeared on MuslimGirl.com. We are republishing the piece with permission from the author.
Taraji P. Henson is no stranger to inspiring beauty trends, both on and off screen. Her Empire character, Cookie Lyon, gives the kind of sass and fierce side/cat-eye we've come to look forward to on Wednesday night. And IRL? Henson's new haircut is the stuff of hair goals, as is her makeup. Now, the actress is teaming up with MAC Cosmetics for the second time to deliver even more beauty inspo. Enter: Taraji's Viva Glam.
MAC's AIDS Fund is exclusively funded and supported by the beauty brand's famous Viva Glam collections. The only thing more iconic than its red lipstick tube, though, are the spokespeople who back up the campaign annually, like Miley Cyrus, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj, Rihanna, Lil' Kim, Mary J. Blige, and Lady Gaga. But those are just a fraction of the people who stand behind the cause. And, thanks to Henson, the lineup just got that much better.
After the success of Henson's solo MAC collection last year and her first Viva Glam campaign alongside Empire co-star Jussie Smollet, we're not surprised she's back. The actress is a vocal supporter of several AIDS research and awareness organizations, and is currently an ambassador for Alicia Keys' charity, Keep a Child Alive. So, we couldn't have imagined a better fit.
As for what the collection itself looks like, we can only describe it as pure copper magic. If you thought the metallic lip trend was out, then these will convince you otherwise. Both the Lipglass and lipstick are bronze in color with glitter flecks packed inside, making them equal parts glam and natural — just like Henson.
You can shop these new Viva Glam lip products for $17 each starting September 7 on the brand's site.
When we head to the beach, it's all about relaxing, letting loose, and forgetting all of our troubles. That's pretty much what it's like for most normal people. But going to a public beach as a celebrity is quite a different experience and it's up to fans to make sure they aren't overstepping their boundaries.
The Dolan twins, Ethan and Grayson, tried to have a chill day by the ocean when a couple of teenage girls spotted them. After following them down the beach, one of them grabbed the twins' shirts when they weren't nearby.
As fun as it would sound in theory, to snag a souvenir from the time you saw your favorite celeb (and leave a cute boy shirtless), it's actually very disrespectful. These people share their lives with you and you should be able to respect their privacy when they want it. Stealing is always wrong and this just kicks it up a notch.
Neither of the boys have mentioned the incident on their social media, but fans have taken notice. The Dolan twins' fans are passionate enough to steal which means all the other fans are passionate enough to defend them relentlessly. Once the word got out that these girls stole from the boys, fans were enraged. One of the girls from the beach posted this statement on Twitter, begging for the hate to stop.
It's one thing to call out rude behavior, but it's 100% wrong to harass someone. No matter what someone has done to you or your favorite Internet star, cyber-bullying is unacceptable. Fans and celebrities both deserve respect and privacy. Let's show them that.
