A reader asked me to explain why I don’t like Tavi, and while thinking this over I wondered: Is it okay to not like her? By “okay” I mean, politically acceptable, if not politically correct.
I just don’t like her! Sue me!
Trying to examine the dislike is akin to examining why I don’t like cream cheese. It’s an immediate reaction, a matter of taste. Does it have to go deeper, I’m wondering? Is it so weird to not like a precocious little teenager that it calls for analysis?
I once took issue with her over the notion that she should identify herself as being on the autistic spectrum. That didn’t go over very well. I don’t even agree with myself at this point. People are free to self-identify or not, as gay, autistic, bi-polar, what have you. I’m past giving a shit. Sorry! to everyone who took offense.
Here’s an idea:
I will use this photo to illustrate my opinion, Taviwise. She is a kid who finds herself ironic. Her discussions of her schoolday strike me as full of self-irony disguised as faux innocence. Her stance of “Who me? I’m just a kid!” is contradicted by hiring a very effective publicist to put her in front of our eyes on an almost daily basis. She approaches these people to be part of their projects. She’s a brand seeking brand recognition.
In this photo, she was asked to model the Ralph Lauren breast cancer awareness shirt, and she chose to style it with the famous ribbon hat, nudge nudge, that bothered some fashion editor. She’s too young to reference herself, but she’s doing it anyway. It’s irritating.
I don’t even get why grown ups are supposed to want a kid telling them about fashion or anything else. If your all-time favorite TV show is “Daria,” and your all-time favorite magazine is “Sassy,” you need to stay in school and gain some perspective! Or get a show on Nikelodeon!
Remember when she turned down an invitation to be on Oprah, “because that’s just not a crowd whose eyes I want on me?” Oprah is just too pedestrian. Screw Oprah. Oprah wouldn’t get it like Rad Hourani or the Rodarte girls.
Is this a good enough explanation or am I just a big mean horrible old wrinkly meanie?
No, you’re not just being an old meanie. I can definitely understand your point of view, especially if you came to know about Tavi after she started getting a bunch of media attention (I don’t remember how long you’ve been posting about her). She has a tendency to come across as a show pony, which can get hyper-exaggerated in some contexts, especially ones that act shocked at the idea that a 14-year-old could be literate. Your point on “self-irony disguised as faux innocence” is an interesting one– I think that stance plagues a lot of internet-raised teenagers, for whom ~~irony~~ is their primary mode of being. As for perspective–she’s still a teenager. Lack of perspective comes with the territory.
I started reading her blog in late 2008, I think, when she was dressing up in costumes, and she reminded me of hyperactive little sister who had just discovered fashion. I really loved the spark she brought (so different from the jaded perspective of, say, Anna Wintour) that I kept reading. Her writing never seemed to me anything particularly noteworthy; to me it seems consistent with what a introverted girl raised by educated parents would write after being exposed to too many internet memes.
Hiring a publicist does make her seem rather like a product, but I think it’s a smart move in the long run. If she wants to make a career out of fashion, she’s got to avoid being the current fad, and the publicist seems to be helping her make some legitimate business decisions, dubious ethics aside. I’m not sold on these “collaborative videos” with brands, but Tavi has always been forthcoming about what she’s getting for free, unlike other bloggers.
I don’t really understand your dig at the bow/hat, though. She has a hat. She wears it. What’s the big deal?
Tavi? Who is this Tavi that you speak of? I don’t know her.
Tavi doesn’t interest me – I’d rather read something written by a grown-up.
Silly ‘Sis’, they’re not real people, look at their stances, they’re puppets and the puppet-master has let go their strings.
Fashion acts like an annoying teenager so she’s sort of the the physical embodiment of all the self-awareness and lack of perspective.
I think it’s OK to dislike a child. They are not entitled to automatic adoration, despite what their parents may have taught them. I don’t believe adults should go out of their way to be an asshole to a child, but ignoring them is fine.
I like what I see in her blog – this is very different from knowing her in person. I do think the ‘bandwagonning’ is a tad creepy. You do get a sense of what is genuine and what is a load of old marketeers. As to getting a publicist – why not – let a pro deal with all the fuss and nonsense. She’s a person not a persona – unless she decides to make Tavi into a brand. I get the sense that she’s a bit discomforted by her blog posts being seen as proclamations/pearls of ‘flavour of the month’ wisdom. It’s like they’re trying to turn her into Mini Vreeland. Gawd knows there are enough bloggers out there willing to jump through hoops for column inches and freebies.
Nope, you are right on with this.
I dont think that it is “ironic” to have a teen in your front row doing reviews. At first, I thought it was some sort of “helping the fashion desiring teen” publicity stunt for the designers.
Now I think they have to, as it is the accepted thing.
UGH
No, you’re not being a meanie! I would never call her influential, and would never take fashion advice from a 14 year old with her style (which is truly awful). Her style looks more like her having fun playing dress ups, and going way overboard.
The things she styles with others just do not go together.
And dyed grey hair? Not hot.
When other (fashion victim) stylist/bloggers are using Tavi as an inspiration for their Halloween costume, says it all. There will always be a flavor of the month mentality as there will always be flash fashion fads. Let the publicist laugh all the way to the bank and just sit back and enjoy the hype.
I totally agree with you Sister. I checked on her blog once in a while and the last (and last) time I did, she admitted to wearing her contrived outfits to simply irritate people at school and was disappointed that she was no longer getting angry reactions now that she had gotten to high school. I was done. She’s a child who wants attention – negative attention included. There’s nothing a teen wants more than to be taken seriously by adults. I just can’t do it.
In brief defense of teenagers in general and “irony”… here’s the thing. I’m not a teenager anymore and haven’t been in awhile, but I remember how it was. If you take yourself seriously, the adults around you land on your head like a ton of bricks and laugh themselves sick. Being a teenager, it is beaten into our skulls by the time we’re twelve, means we’re insane, untrustworthy, and incapable of controlling our “raging hormones”. (If I had a buck for every time I heard that damn phrase, I’d be able to pay for law school out of pocket.) We’re told that as teenagers nothing we’re doing and nothing happening to us is “real life”, and that we just need to wait in limbo until we enter the “real world”, where we will commence being “real adults”.
Irony, my friends, is the only answer, because a good percentage of adults mistake it for being precocious and mature. “How wonderful that you’re keeping all this in perspective!” they coo. As if life between the ages of 12 and 20 is somehow totally invalid and worthy only of derision. As if to actually take those years for what they are and ignore the “just WAIT till you grow up and I can start taking you seriously!” is an enormous personal failing.
Glad to read this post, as I feel the same way…and have also been put ‘on the spot’ to defend my dislike as if I had been personally bullying a child. I even found it hilarious that you referenced Sassy magazine in the post, because, if I’m not mistaken, Sassy was long gone before Tavi was even BORN.
I don’t have anything against Tavi solely based on age. I was a very precocious youngster myself….but back in my pre-internet days of youth, those of us with too many brains, too keen an interest in semi-extreme styles, and too few peers of similar ilk….we all just ended up dressing crazy in head-to-toe vintage (not CHANEL goddamit!) and, for better or worse, experimenting with drugs and hanging out with people much much older than we were. I’m not saying that was a more wholesome path to take (it wasn’t), but somehow it seems more…authentic (?) than the calculated branding monster Tavi seems to be (or to have become). So I guess that is one problem I have with her: she is a plastic robo-child steeped in commercialism, product placement strategy, and PR-concocted ‘projects’ with heavy-hitting industry professionals that many talented veterans in their field will never hope to work with (despite the MERIT they have shown, and what has Tavi done exactly aside from don some headgear?). What happened to being steeped in rebellious youth culture, rock-n-roll, and the artistic/transforming power of clothing to express who you are in a complex world? Doesn’t that prepare you to have a more personal and unique point of view than a lifetime of consuming, mish-mashing, and then regurgitating information all within the confines of the internet?
But I have a lot of problems with the Tavi-machine, and the above assessment of her troubling lack of authentic humanity is just one small component of a larger icky feeling she gives me. I also hate (HATE) her style and find zero inspiration in a single photo I’ve ever seen of her (I’ve never actually read her blog but have seen dozens of photos of her….how about that for ironic?!).
This is where I sometimes get accused of sour grapes…but I have worked my ass for for the past dozen years in NYC. I worked in the publishing industry before going back to school for design and switching to the fashion industry. Basically, I’ve worked HARD in the two industries to which Tavi is most tangentially relevant. To know that editors who earned those front row seats (and trust me, paying those dues is a long and horrible process) are getting ‘bumped’ in favor of a literal child is just offensive to me. I have no doubt that before long we’ll hear about Tavi ‘designing her own line’ of ugly hats or stupid whatevers…and I’ll probably blow my lid at that point. This ridiculous, and totally un-earned, privilege she enjoys gives the proverbial finger to all of us serious professionals out there who have worked our hands to the bone achieving things in the extremely difficult and competitive world of fashion.
Sigh….but I’ll probably get ripped apart for pointing these things out so I’m hitting the submit button now with some trepidation….
I must admit that I am very conflicted about her. And I must be naive, because I think that the cool kids of fashion are all swanning around her and want to get a piece of the Tavi “brand” to connect themselves with her. I did read that she has a publicist but is it possible that it is only the publicist that is putting her out there all the time? And whether she is being ironic, channeling Daria’s blase attitude, or merely obsessive about one thing a la Aspergers, she does it really well. Did any of you read her blog yesterday? Jane Pratt, who founded Sassy, contacted HER, and she is getting her wish! They are going to bring out a new Sassy-esque magazine! At a time when magazines are all losing money! This whole Tavi thing is a very interesting phenomenon about the power of the internet, how it has changed the fashion and magazine industries, and what happens when a smart kid with an intellectual obsession with fashion gets attention from the powers that be in the fashion world because of it. Jealous me wishes it could be me (because I was obsessed with fashion from birth and even sat next to Steven Meisel, the photographer in 5th grade- damn, why was I too shy to use my connection?), but cynical me says that it really is all about money. Whatever it is, she looks like she is having a good time. Used to be that a person needed to be in NY, know someone in the fashion/publishing industries to even get an internship while in college, and then finish college before he/she could even attempt to enter that rarefied world to work for hardly any money. The internet’s changed all that.
I don’t have enough interest in her, (or other teenage fashion bloggers) to dislike or like her. You nailed it, SW: “I don’t even get why grown ups are supposed to want a kid telling them about fashion or anything else.”
oh god, i agree. that little privileged snot.
dont tout feminism (whicb i see as interconnected with all other oppression-fighting) while you’re fucking wearing miu miu shoes!
I’m with Cricket9. She’s a non-entity to me. My only thought on her is that I’m not really into taking fashion cues from 14 year olds.
And Carrie, your last paragraph rings so true and says it all about why people, especially ones in the industry who have been working their assess of for years and years are having such a bad time with the Tavi phenomenon.
Why was she named one of Glamour’s Women of the Year at an awards show at Carnegie Hall the other night? Did Glamour not want to be the only mag that didn’t have a Tavi association? And is she even a woman? She doesn’t even have boobs yet!
I LOVE Tavi and I LOVE Sisterwolf. She’s really a breath of fresh air for me in regards to most youth I’ve encountered. Also, @Lezzie, Miu Mius and feminism aren’t mutually exlusive; to say otherwise if going against a cardinal rule of feminism, which is our lives are about choice and autonomy. I can chat gender oppression all day if you’d like and I’ll wear whatever I want to.
Ah she seems a nice kid but I’m sure she would bore me as all American kids seem precocious to me – a view I’ve held since when well I was kid! Bit like Americans think all Brit kids are stuck up or dull.
As for fashion advice or inspiration – um, no.
Personally, I think she’s interesting. I look at her blog maybe once a month and the only reason (excuse?) I can really come up with for loving her is that she’s a precocious, immature kid. This sounds like a bad thing, but it’s kinda refreshing in comparison to a lot of other fashion blogs with girls trying to be edgy out there. I have no idea how much positioning goes into her blogging, but her writing comes off as very honest.
Now, could any other fashion-obsessed smart teenager do this? Yes, of course, but Tavi managed to hit it big on the combo of irony, oversharing, and the entire fashion industry going “wow, can you believe a 12-year-old wrote that???”
However, I think her personal style altogether is just ugly and too much. Some of the individual things are cute, and her inspiration pics are wonderful, but she goes for shock value over outfits wearable for other humans time and time again. The value of her writing and honesty are the only things keeping me there.
Relevant: check out http://www.thestylerookie.com/2010/11/its-happening.html. She’s restarting Sassy, oh god.
damaia – superbly put. Teenagers don’t exist in some time-bubble away from the rest of the world; part of the reason why they are who they are is down to the reactions of those around them. Given that one’s teenage years tend to be so formative, for adults to treat it like it’s some sort of void in your life is absurd.
Carrie – I reckon (but do tell me if this sounds like bullcrap) the Tavi thing is a product of fashion’s relationship to novelty. It’s novel that a 12 year old was so obsessed with fashion and had a blog and could write reasonably well, so in she went to the upper echelons of the fashion world who adopted her as their mascot (interestingly, it’s not like she’s a contemporary of these people (at least, whenever I’ve read anything about her it’s always been “Daaaw look at this fashionista-kid!”) The power structure is a little skew-whiff and kind of disconcerting). It’s a sad fact and it happens all over the place – music is a great example. You could tour your arse off for years, learn to play like a virtuoso and yet you are guaranteed diddly squat in terms of success and recognition (or steady employment, even), then the next Pop Idol or whoever gets a record deal and whatnot for doing fuck all. It comes down to luck, who you know and what’s going on in the business at the time you try to break into it. Of course, in order to sustain one’s position when one attains it requires effort and know-how and work, something I could envision Tavi lacking further on up the road. But hey, she might prove me wrong and actually work hard retrospectively to earn the attention she’s received.
SW – “I don’t even get why grown ups are supposed to want a kid telling them about fashion or anything else.” Maybe that’s a little unfair. I mean, if you learn something of value from someone, does it matter how old they are? Either it’s resonant or it’s not. Focusing on her age only propels this novelty crap I mentioned before that got her here in the first place. The question is, do we have anything of value to learn from Tavi? The answer for me, really, is not particularly – she’s seems intelligent, she’s pretty funny, but no more so than a bazillion other bloggers out there.
I totally get it. Actually looking at that picture gave me a headache immediately. I’m not kidding.
I check out her blog once in awhile. I have mixed feelings. I was not much older than her when I started blogging about fashion (although I wrote about things I found in the garbage, not things sent to me by important designers), but I don’t think that invalidates my right to say that it’s sort of weird.
I don’t like children.
i was going to try and explain my feelings but i just can’t verbalize them. all i’m getting is a lot of eye rolling and roller coaster stomach. it’s awkward, annoying and umm… slightly painful?
also, there’s this: http://canigetamanwiththat.com/post/1086565092/dear-daria-revisiting-the-misery-chick
tavi’s question made me want to pull all my hair out and possibly throw my computer across the room.
WHY.
I like her. I like her BECAUSE she’s what I was at her age– full of angst, so desperate to be different to her peers, full of that teenage self-importance where we think that our ideas are new and important. And I find it to be sweet and lovely. I love her excitement, and that her self-consciousness is transparent, unlike a lot of fashion bloggers who try to maintain whatever characature they’ve composed for themselves and wear it like it IS them. She’s still young, still finding that, and I love it. That it’s contrived, that she’s turning herself into a brand? I don’t care. Everyone does that. That she does it so cleverly, i can’t help but respect.
I find the whole thing refreshing.
I have no clue who this broad is nor do I care to know.
Sister Wolf -I think it’s a good explanation.
I’m sorry…I was like Tavi at that age (minus fashion sense or interest…and I STILL kind of dressed like her) and I don’t like her.
She comes off as someone who is so self-deprecating yet aware of her own intelligence at the same time…I was EXACTLY like that at her age. I had a LOT to learn and she does too.
And yes, I will admit, I don’t really like listening or reading the opinions of children….at least for my own education. I love talking to children, but I’m not really inspired by them. I am not inspired by Tavi’s florid writing (which definitely reminds me of my middle school diary) or her insane fashion sense. Mine was “I’m the child of foreigners in the post-Communist era and they just threw lots of cheap bright shit on me.” It wasn’t ironic. It was what they could afford.
Plus, could she try to be a child of the 90s any harder? I don’t like when people try to fit themselves into the box of one era. Just looks like they’re trying too hard. IMO.
Meh, I’m so jaded. I need to go slam my head on the wall or something.
And PS SASSY?!!! OH MY GOSH, seriously. I personally think that older feminists (20 somethings) should have been approached to tell the younger ladies about life ahead…not TAVI. I have feminist friends who have worked in women’s shelters and read through worn copies of Freidan’s books over and over again…I wish that THEY had that opportunity. Sigh.
DEAD.
Nail on the head.
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
I like Tavi a little, I suppose. I don’t really follow her blog much or even her whereabouts but you better believe, if I were her age and the internet was booming as it is right now, I would have probably wanted to be her. Yes I worry sometimes that the fashion world is treating her as a bit of a novelty but I think she’s much too smart to get screwed by it. Plus, I like the fact that she speaks up about things which concern her in the fashion world. It’s a hard thing to do for some, so I give her props. You do make a funny point about her referencing herself though.
I smile at the bit about turning down Oprah. It’s okay to not want to be on a talk show. Buuuut having said that, if you’re going the brand route, you’ve just sort of shot yourself in the foot right there.
she’s starting a magazine!
http://fashionista.com/2010/11/crazy-insane-breaking-news-tavi-and-jane-pratt-you-know-sassys-jane-pratt-are-launching-a-magazine/
I don’t get all this fuss. Tavi’s a cool kid, she’s got a good head on her shoulders, so what if she wants to self parody? She’s 14! That’s advanced humor for someone her age. And liking Daria and Sassy magazine cuts across age groups–sure I used to as some sort of tribute to the generation before me when I was in my teens, and why shouldn’t Tavi? She’s smart, funny, and not afraid to be frumpy.
Why the hell would Tavi go on Oprah? Now *that* would be courting press, as you’ve accused her of doing. Instead she sticks to the mags that personally invite her and that jive with her aesthetic. Go hate on stupid Jane, hell…even your no longer a target Rumi is scores lamer than Tavi.
I’m not going to justify my mild dislike of Tavi. I don’t have to. She annoys me but then most teenagers annoy me. I do find her pretentious and her writing tone rather condescending. She’s trying way too hard to come across as sophisticated, which comes out as bored and annoys me even more. I don’t think she deserves to be in the front row of major fashion shows, I agree with Carrie on that and many other points. And I think her style is hideous. It’s easy to dress well when you’re getting free designer goodies and yet she dresses like a color blind bag lady in need of Prozac.
I normally don’t read her blog but sometimes, if I’m bored, I’ll drop in. I’ve been turned off by some strange political comments she’s made & I don’t find her style flattering or attractive in any way. I think people generally LIKE to be attractive & thus I feel she’s trying too hard to be weird. Shock factor gimmicks annoy me. That said, God bless her for making a name for herself. I hope she has the maturity to handle the fame.
HA AHAAAHA
Thank you for this post. You hit the nail right on the head.
I truly think she is overrated….
For gods sake her resemblance to my grandmother is astonishing!!
I don’t think I will ever understand her- nor will I try.
thanks for answering my question! and just to be clear, i like that you don’t like her. i don’t equate disagreeing with someone with being offended by someone. i like your blog. i like your blog more than tavi’s blog! far be it from me to tell you who not to like. i just usually agree with you, so when i didn’t for once i only wanted a bit of clarification. what you say makes sense, now i get why you don’t like her. it didn’t change my opinion of her but i also don’t really care that much about any outfit blogs enough or check them often enough to get irritated. if i did i might just be right there with you.
in fact, your blog is one of the few blogs i read on a regular basis. i check the fashion blogs mostly because you mention them, so there you go.
Children are just small adults, and a lot of them are pretty dislikeable. I do not wish them any harm, but i do not want to spend a lot of time with most of them . Like adults the ones I love are few and far between and give me great joy. But you don’t have to like them just because they are small.
She is just a stupid precocious teen. I was much like her but about politics and music not fashion.
I really really despise the people who make her into a big star and an authority. clearly she is none of that.
I find her ‘oh what? little old me?’ attitude somewhat contrived, especially as I’ve just learned she has a publicist to do all of that obnoxious pushy stuff on her behalf now. I mean, she seems like an intelligent kid, but there are plenty of intelligent kids, they just didn’t get as lucky/ pushy as her.
I’ll freely admit that my feelings towards her probably have something to do with the fact that she’s a precocious 14 year old school child who gets free clothes and trips round the world, whilst I’m a 24 year old graduate student who works a crappy minimum wage job and lives with my parents, but hey, it’s still the way I feel.
THANK YOU SISTER.
I think she’s the most self absorbed blogger out there, yes even worse than Sea. Sea’s world is so weird that i simply cannot hate, it got to the point it bears no resemblance to life on earth. But Tavi on the other hand is fantastically irritating, she sees herself as this sitcom nerdy ironic kid and just plays to it endlessly. I never read nothing coming from her that sounded remotely felt or sincere. It’s always this annoying character doing the talking, she has to be quirky,cool, ironic, engaged all in perfect doses and she follows the script with slavish devotion. She’s so incredibly “aware” of what she’s doing, of what she’s supposed to do to be a real teen and not miss out on anything, that she’ll never be one.
But I really cannot blame her, hers is a sponsored blog and she has to keep the sponsors happy, the fault lies in her follower, Who the hell in their right mind cares about what a 14 year old says about ANYTHING. Why do they revere her like she’s an oracle? Why didn’t anyone told her to shut up with all that nonsense she sprouts about the teens in the early 90’s? Why do people of my age, the early 90s teens she wants to emulate do not tell her to shove the Sassy’s where the sun does not shine, but confirm her opinion and tell her that, yes back then everything was wonderful and Courtney Love is the biggest feminist icon in existence, of course huge heroin and mental problems,STDS, a totally disaffected youth existed but just because they look so cool in films of Larry Clark, we do not mind. And why would Tavi?
*Rorschach
but yeah, she bothers me too. mostly because most of what she wears is SO unflattering!
either she is a witch or it’s forever halloween and she’s a witch. she looks like a psycho and she has sad eyes.
Honestly, I’m a bit jealous of how teens these days can be awkward and it’s considered indie or cool..When I was a teen awkard meant dork, unpopular, etc. I don’t mind Tavi. She doesn’t inspire me and I have no desire to read her blog but she doesn’t irritate me either. It’s also refreshing to see a teenage girl that isn’t slutting it up and trying to grow up too fast.
I don’t like her either…but I don’t like anyone.
“People are free to self-identify or not, as gay, autistic, bi-polar, what have you. I’m past giving a shit. Sorry! to everyone who took offense.”
Seriously, fuckity duckity yuckity to that. There is just so much wrong with those statements.
Brunehilda said it best for you it would seem.
Constance – Thank you for expressing it better!
Carrie – Yep. Same page.
Liz – I think of it as faux-self-deprecation.
Jen – Good point. I don’t want to be an asshole either.
damaia – Well, yes, its difficult to be a teenager. I remind my own teen that I know how hard it is, and I would never dismiss a young person’s feelings. But I have news for you: It’s much harder to be an adult without grown ups to blame everything on.
CR – Shit, thanks, I fixed my spelling.
Brunehilda – Hahahahahahahahha
Hortense – What is it you want from me, Hortense?
I am not a big fan of Tavi but I think good for her, she is making a name for herself and hopefully making some money for her future. As for her giving fashion advice, at least it is a change from a male homosexual dominated fashion industry that designs for giant androgynous waifs
Pardon, this’ll be the last of this blog I read or comment on. Not that anyone gives a shit. But this venom level has gotten too high. Sister Wolf is an engaging, truly interesting figure. Her blog’s a fun read. I can’t read it any more though, cause it makes me very sad to see sisters hating on one another for trying to deaden the tedious pain that is living with a dose of imagination and fantasy–misguided or not. Yes, it’s a perverse feminist notion to think all attacks on women are of ill motive–but this meangirl shit is awful. I know a lady who talks this way, and she is the most unbearable bitch. She frequently shames very kind people with her unrelenting need to destroy everybody else’s fun and confidence. Sister isn’t like her, but some of the recent shit is just a few whiffs off the blow.
Yadda yadda make fun of me or some cunt fart. Do what thou wilt and all. Later. It’s been real reading this very fine blog.
It is interesting how a simple post has attracted such a diatribe of
“Oh she’s hideous”
“No wait – she’s so calculating”
“Gray hair – yuck”
“No 14 year old is going to tell ME how to dress”
“She isn’t a feminist in THOSE shoes”
“I paid my dues to the fashion industry and it’s NOT FAIR”
I mean, unflattering, sad-eyed psycho?
Oh er Hortense seems to have tripped the light fantastic in a head turning stressy hissy fit. I’m mainly amused by the ‘hater’ ‘hate on’ terminology. I’m so going to work that into Twitter tonight when X Factor is on.
Yeah, whenever people loudly announce that they will no longer be reading a blog, it’s always got a sad trombone effect. It’s not like you can slam the door behind you and take your ball with you.
I love Sister Wolf, I like Tavi, heck I like Jane a bit too (say what you will, her Halloween costume was BRILLIANT) . . . but that’s the beautiful thing about discussion. We are free to disagree as we like.