Have y’all seen this blog ladypockets? Starts with a humorous fashion write-up on today’s best and brightest and ends up a link to a wonderful thought provoking article about how even today we value looks over smarts. Robes are the new blazers, y’all.
In case you hadn’t heard, Amal Clooney, prominent human rights lawyer and also beautiful wife of Hollywood movie star and also prominent human rights lawyer, has lately been subjected to a totally batshit media circus just by showing up to do her job. There’s some good stuff out there on the internet about the whole Twittersplosion, including this thinkpiece that makes me want to cry — not because it’s wrong, but because I honestly just don’t know what the answer here is anymore.