i'm not a parent, which is probably could cos there would have been a very public dressing down, wiping her face off with her own shirt, and a forced removal from her phone, the store and any other freedom she valued until she understood shit like that is not ok no matter what her stupid friends were doing - that is disgusting, as is the parents white privlege please don't shame my kid for their shameful behaviour request
Gross. The racism is ugly, and I’m guessing those girls are going to get the wrong kind of attention and regret that video badly. A polarizing (people will undoubtedly defend those girls and the mom) TikTok video going viral would be overwhelming. I can’t imagine the backlash and attention. Hopefully, it makes a few people think about tolerating behavior like that and encouraging it. As an aside, I highly recommend using a good moisturizer with SPF on your face every day. I have for 25 years and people frequently guess I’m 10-15 years younger. Drink water, and don’t smoke! :)
“I walked over here and you were about to send a picture of that. You want to document this? Go ahead,” the worker said, according to Amira Castilla at The Root, who clearly has better hearing than I do. “This is the stuff that ruins jobs, college acceptances, let alone how incredibly offensive this is.”
I suppose it's a little too early to nominate this Sephora worker to the Supreme Court, but when's the next primary election for Mayor of Boston?
Who knows if the entitlement these people exhibit has anything to do with having too much money.
One thing that was different when I was young is that only rich people were ever allowed into the stores that catered to rich people. Maybe they behaved like this then and the rest of us just never knew.
I'm sure those parents did talk to their kids about racism. They explained how funny it was to mock minorities because they are all intellectually inferior, welfare-mooching criminals as Fox news has explained over and over again for the past three decades.
So many people insist kids* were better behaved "back then," relative to how old the nostalgic person happens to be. Also, yes, I recall my mother promising there would be hell to pay if I acted out in public. I still recall young people acting like yahoos in public, especially in spaces occupied by the historically marginalized. The main differences seem to be we all have miniature computers in our pockets, and it's less acceptable to express our vitriol and act with puerile toxicity towards particular demographics and in specific neighborhoods.
*"Kids" has been in use for figurative eons to refer to young people that it's almost no longer a colloquialism. I can't think of an appropriate formal term for that age cohort that doesn't carry with it some sort of undesirable connotation. "Child" sounds inappropriate for, or at least condescending to, anyone over age 11. "Minor" is never used in a good context ("tried as a," "buying alcohol for a"), nor is "juvenile."
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room."
Very apropos! (Extremely pedantic footnote: We don't know if Socrates really said this, since no writings of his have ever been discovered. The quotation is from Plato, who may or may not have reported it accurately. Plato was a notorious grouch.)
There’s a reason this video went viral. It’s because there was no other footage available of say, the moms loudly scolding their own kids, forcing them to apologize to everyone in the store, and being hauled to a mall bathroom to wash their faces before going straight home. Don’t like being filmed doing bad shit? Do better shit.
I would *like* to think that the mothers made this a learning experience for those girls. I mean, I have been young and stupid, but I've been corrected when I've been shitty, and I'm always learning better, even at my advanced age.
So I'd *like* to think this would be a formative learning experience for them in how not to be a shitty person.
i'm not a parent, which is probably could cos there would have been a very public dressing down, wiping her face off with her own shirt, and a forced removal from her phone, the store and any other freedom she valued until she understood shit like that is not ok no matter what her stupid friends were doing - that is disgusting, as is the parents white privlege please don't shame my kid for their shameful behaviour request
A group of teenagers, accompanied by their mothers
Who videoed them and took pictures
But it was not THEIR fault, this total stranger lady should go yell at her own kid.
The actual fuck
Jen's Unethical has posted my own personal thoughts on this matter, three hours before I read this article and thunk them! Good on this fine Wonker!
Gross. The racism is ugly, and I’m guessing those girls are going to get the wrong kind of attention and regret that video badly. A polarizing (people will undoubtedly defend those girls and the mom) TikTok video going viral would be overwhelming. I can’t imagine the backlash and attention. Hopefully, it makes a few people think about tolerating behavior like that and encouraging it. As an aside, I highly recommend using a good moisturizer with SPF on your face every day. I have for 25 years and people frequently guess I’m 10-15 years younger. Drink water, and don’t smoke! :)
“I walked over here and you were about to send a picture of that. You want to document this? Go ahead,” the worker said, according to Amira Castilla at The Root, who clearly has better hearing than I do. “This is the stuff that ruins jobs, college acceptances, let alone how incredibly offensive this is.”
I suppose it's a little too early to nominate this Sephora worker to the Supreme Court, but when's the next primary election for Mayor of Boston?
Ta, Robyn. This is a fucking sickness. It's worse than COVID.
“were told that 'It’s not [the mothers’] fault that the kids are doing what they’re doing'”
Uhm, I'm sorry, but WHAT? then just who the f@ck's fault is it?
And taking video of it to post, then later pleading with Temiojoraa and her teammates to delete their vids of it because the girls were "too little"?!
I, seriously, do not have enough hair on my head to pull out over this while screaming.
those "mothers" 100% put these kids up to this to get some right wing grift circuit going and it backfired right in their ugly faces.
Hopefully their daughters learn the lessons their mother's failed to teach them
No idea what would motivate these kids to do that, seriously, in 2024? Arrrgh!
Who knows if the entitlement these people exhibit has anything to do with having too much money.
One thing that was different when I was young is that only rich people were ever allowed into the stores that catered to rich people. Maybe they behaved like this then and the rest of us just never knew.
Fun fact — Al Jolson was a passionate advocate for African American civil rights.
I know nothing about makeup or makeup sales, but is it normal to allow customers to paint their entire faces with the samples?
My idea of samples is a tiny sliver of cheese with a toothpick in it that you see at Costco.
"Talk to your kids about the racism, please."
I'm sure those parents did talk to their kids about racism. They explained how funny it was to mock minorities because they are all intellectually inferior, welfare-mooching criminals as Fox news has explained over and over again for the past three decades.
Yup
So many people insist kids* were better behaved "back then," relative to how old the nostalgic person happens to be. Also, yes, I recall my mother promising there would be hell to pay if I acted out in public. I still recall young people acting like yahoos in public, especially in spaces occupied by the historically marginalized. The main differences seem to be we all have miniature computers in our pockets, and it's less acceptable to express our vitriol and act with puerile toxicity towards particular demographics and in specific neighborhoods.
*"Kids" has been in use for figurative eons to refer to young people that it's almost no longer a colloquialism. I can't think of an appropriate formal term for that age cohort that doesn't carry with it some sort of undesirable connotation. "Child" sounds inappropriate for, or at least condescending to, anyone over age 11. "Minor" is never used in a good context ("tried as a," "buying alcohol for a"), nor is "juvenile."
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room."
Socrates
Very apropos! (Extremely pedantic footnote: We don't know if Socrates really said this, since no writings of his have ever been discovered. The quotation is from Plato, who may or may not have reported it accurately. Plato was a notorious grouch.)
Little known fact:
Megan Kelly gets all her makeup from Sephora.
There’s a reason this video went viral. It’s because there was no other footage available of say, the moms loudly scolding their own kids, forcing them to apologize to everyone in the store, and being hauled to a mall bathroom to wash their faces before going straight home. Don’t like being filmed doing bad shit? Do better shit.
I would *like* to think that the mothers made this a learning experience for those girls. I mean, I have been young and stupid, but I've been corrected when I've been shitty, and I'm always learning better, even at my advanced age.
So I'd *like* to think this would be a formative learning experience for them in how not to be a shitty person.
"why can't they be like we were, perfect in every way. what's the matter with kids today?"
Absolutely foul. Well they're going to go on to get into the Liberty University/Heritage Foundation pipeline.
That's just not sporting to be recording your future Aileen Cannons just having a good time wilding out!