Something's Rotten

And Ben and Leslie! I know, I know. Do you remember we were texting just a couple of months ago and just kind of commented on how nice they are? They're so nice. They're so much nicer than us. So much nicer. And they're so nice to each other.

Amy Poehler and Adam Scott's thoughts about Ben and Leslie in Good Hang With Amy Poehler (2025)

I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.

Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!

But let me tell you a story:

I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.

One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.

At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.

I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.

Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.

The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.

And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.

So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.

So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.

So let’s talk about Elizabeth Taylor’s Taj Mahal necklace and where it actually came from (video is by bethejuggernaut on tik tok)

So yeah they can plaster our priceless jewellery on white folk but god forbid someone from the actual country wants to wear it…

Because as we all know South Asian cultures only become beautiful when our touch has been completely sanitised from it.

But in this case the inscription on the necklace remains as an undeniable everlasting truth.