Molly Taft's saved articles

I really feel we’re in the dark days of obesity medicine. I’m obese. I have been since I was four years old. I put myself on my first diet: I was 7. I was in a medically supervised weight management program at 11. Weight Watchers at 14. Atkins at 15. I have never known a conscious moment in which food and my body were… Read more

You won’t see me arguing that a rape threat is okay if the person being threatened sucks. You will see me say that using a threatening message to misgender people and suggest that transgender people are really just a bunch of violent men is a deeply fucked up thing for a woman this famous to say when transgender… Read more

I mean, I’m just not going to assume that “her white underlings” (what about her Asian “underlings”? her LGBTQ “underlings”) are being racist solely on the basis of them....calling out racism and bigotry. Absent a fair amount of other evidence, I’m not going to speculate they have impure motives for doing one of the… Read more

As a Black woman, I gotta disagree with this one. Locking down accounts and removing old racist/sexist/homophobic tweets is pretty much Employability 101 at this point. Not tweeting them in the first place is even better. Nearly all recruiters for high-profile jobs check social media. Parsing out “ignorant” vs.… Read more

Yes, she was just 17. I do think there should be space to show change (something the commentariat of this site should probably say even when they don’t like the person). But no, she’s not being cancelled. She lost a management position that was vulnerable for a 27 year old with no management experience in a different… Read more