Demi Lovato was cool for the summer, but it looks like things are getting heated for the singer in the fall. According to Seventeen, the pop star faced some backlash this week when she reacted to the release of the new Zendaya Barbie doll and tweeted, "Hey barbie, what about a curvy doll or one with true to size measurements? I'll model!!" Some fans saw this not only as a dig to Zendaya (who has already had to deal with criticism about her look from Giuliana Rancic), but as a way to steal the spotlight.
As one Twitter user put it, "Demi Lovato needs to work out her issues on her own time and stop trying to steal the spotlight from Zendaya's moment. Nobody likes a hater." Lovato didn't take well to the hater response and asked that said online haters focus their energy elsewhere. In a tweet posted on Monday night, Lovato wrote, "Media and everyone online: anytime you go to post something negative, or gossipy bullshit, go spend time with someone you love. Life is way" Wait...way what, Demi? too short.
Got it. Zendaya, on the other hand, has not tweeted anything about the whole Lovato hullabaloo, but she has been championing her doll on social media, posting earlier this week on Twitter about her groundbreaking Barbie, "When I was little I couldn't find a Barbie that looked like me, my...how times have changed."
Elite Black women Olympic athletes undergo exceptional levels of scrutiny, from Simone Biles' recent record-breaking double pike vault which received artificially suppressed scores despite its difficulty to Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi, two Namibian runners who won't be permitted to run in their main events because of their naturally high testosterone levels. And just two days ago, we learned the Olympics decided to ban swim caps designed for the hair of Black swimmers, a blatant move to target Black athletes.
In Sha'Carri Richardson's case, the imposition of a penalty against her is a reminder of the racist application of the patchwork of legalization laws in the United States. Black people are criminalized, while white people profit off the burgeoning cannabis industry.Β
Even International Olympic Committee member and a founder of the World Anti-Doping Agency Dick Pound thinks this marijuana ban needs to go, saying, "One of these days, we should probably either take it off the list entirely or say itβs there but the minimum sanction should be something like a warning, so youβre not losing any period of eligibility." So why is it being enforced now?
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