Everything that Upset the Internet this Week

by Meghan McKenna

Happy Friday friends! It’s finally the weekend, which means you’ll likely be  arguing about politics and pop culture with your friends over cocktails. (Or maybe you’ll crawl under the covers and troll the Internet with savage comments. To each their own!)

Either way, if you plan on bickerin with someone this weekend, best to be informed! (Not that that has stopped anyone on the Internet before…) From Nutella to Stranger Things to Topshop fitting rooms, here’s a roundup of the controversies that rocked the Internet this week.

Lupita Nyong’o is photoshopped on the cover of Grazia

THE STORY: For their November 2017 issue, UK magazine Grazia digitally smoothed the Lupita Nyongo’s hair. Which was, in the Oscar-winning actress’ words, to “fit a more Eurocentric notion of what beautiful hair looks like.”

THE REACTION:

RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE RAGE: Hey Grazia, don’t touch her hair. I’m going to go ahead and let Lupita take it from here: “Had I been consulted, I would have explained that I cannot support or condone the omission of what is my native heritage with the intention that they appreciate that there is still a very long way to go to combat the unconscious prejudice against black women’s complexion, hair style and texture.”

The magazine has since apologized in a statement on Twitter, writing, “Grazia is committed to representing diversity throughout its pages and apologizes unreservedly to Lupita Nyong’o.” Grazia goes on to say that they would “like to make it clear” that no one on the staff made a request to the photographer “for Nyong’o’s hair to be altered . . . nor did we alter it ourselves.”

HOW WE FEEL: ?

The Stranger Things kids are still just kids

THE STORY: Finn Wolfhard, a 14-year-old actor who plays Mike Wheeler in the hit Netflix show, was being criticized by the Internet after a video reportedly surfaced online, showing him heading into his hotel without stopping to take photographs with fans. In the same week, 27-year-old model Ali Michael shared a photo of Finn on her Instagram story, with the caption, “Not to be weird but hit me up in 4 years @finnwolfhardofficial.”

THE REACTION:

RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE RAGE: Yes they’re superstars, but at the end of the day, the kids of Stranger Things are IRL kids. For the multiple generations who love the series, this may be easy to forget — but it shouldn’t be. They have a right to the normalcy of being a 13 or 14, regardless of their A-List celeb status. Sure they’re famous, but that  doesn’t make commenting heart eyes on their Instagrams or camping outside their hotel any less creepy.

HOW WE FEEL: ? ? ?

Nutella is changing their recipe

THE STORY: Nutella said in a post to its German Facebook page that it was “fine tuning” its recipe. There will will be less cocoa and more powered milk, which will increase the spread’s sugar content.

THE REACTION:

RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE RAGE: Seriously though, why mess with a good thing?

HOW WE FEEL: ⚰️ ⚰️ ⚰️ ⚰️ ⚰️ ⚰️ ⚰️

Topshop introduced gender-neutral fitting rooms

THE STORY: Topshop has announced that its changing rooms are now gender-neutral, following a viral complaint from a trans customer who claimed they were refused access to female fitting rooms.

THE REACTION:

RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE RAGE: This is complicated. On one hand, if you have a problem putting on clothes in an enclosed area a few feet from another human, change rooms are not for you. Many of the people outraged here are transphobic jerks. But on the other, there is definitely difference between being able to enter the fitting room as your identified gender, and a completely unsegregated space. Working in retail, I saw a lot of naked female bodies. Those dressing room curtains never close all the way (which TBH is the real problem here. Fitting rooms should always have lockable doors.) It’s uncomfortable for cis and trans women to strip down knowing that a male could very easily sneak a peek through the crack in the curtain.

HOW WE FEEL: ? ?

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