Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're doing it wrong

You know, I actually agree with the substantive point Bee was trying to make with the feckless comment: I found it absolutely grotesque and beyond tone-deaf that Ivanka tweeted that picture of herself cuddling her baby just as headlines were blaring about Trump's horrendous policy of separating migrant children from their parents. I felt a surge of rage when I saw that tweet, and wondered if Ivanka wasn't in fact trolling us. But in any case, ffs, as a mother, Ivanka should be urging her father not to continue with that policy. And I think that was what Bee meant.

BUT -- she NEVER should have put it that way. Taking aside how very distasteful I find that term, taking aside any arguments over whether Ivanka did or did not deserve it, it should have been patently obvious to Bee that by using the term, her (IMO perfectly valid) substantive point would be utterly lost.

It was wildly counterproductive, to say the very least. Quite unnecessarily so. And it's a goddamn shame. Because, yanno, Bee had a point.




As an aside, someone on Twitter asked Chelsea Clinton what she thought about the Tweet, and I liked her response:





We've got big, yuuuge issues we need to address, protest, yell about. The Trump machine is doing its best to create distractions from them. Let's not, the rest of us, create additional distractions.


ETA:

And puh-LEEZE with the people saying "oh, you shouldn't pick on the President's children." While I agree when it comes to underage kids (and even to some extent adult kids who are trying to lead a wholly private life and are doing nothing wrong--we can blame such adults for their own actions, but not the president's), Ivanka is part of her father's administration.  I don't think we should call any woman a cunt, but she is a perfectly fair target for criticism on her father's policy.