#elspeth reeve

[notionscapital]

Fame is an agreement to be loved by strangers in exchange for being drafted into a narrative someone else controls.

Elspeth Reeve

[carolinemillerbooks]

New Post has been published on http://www.booksbycarolinemiller.com/musings/social-media/tumblr-pizza-neighborhood/

Tumblr, Pizza And The Neighborhood

Tumblr is a social network site used by 10% of people who prowl the internet, according to the Pew Research Center, (“The Secret Lives Of Tumblr Teens,” by Elspeth Reeve, New Republic, March 2016, pg. 51) My blog first appeared there in 2010.  The site was lively and I gained  followers whom I fo...

[elasticself]

(via The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens | New Republic)

[lifeascaty]

Those blessed with early-onset hotness are drawn to YouTube, the fashionable and seemingly wealthy post to Instagram, the most charismatic actors, dancers, and comedians thrive on Vine. On Facebook, every link you share and photo you post is a statement of your identity. Tumblr is the social network that, based on my reporting, is seen by teens as the most uncool.

The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens, Elspeth Reeve

Ah, good. I’m in the right place. 

[girlwithlandscape]

Basically, it's not that people born after 1980 are narcissists, it's that young people are narcissists, and they get over themselves as they get older. It's like doing a study of toddlers and declaring those born since 2010 are Generation Sociopath: Kids These Days Will Pull Your Hair, Pee On Walls, Throw Full Bowls of Cereal Without Even Thinking of the Consequences.

In re: the new inane clickbait Time cover, the Atlantic breaks down how these pieces get written by everyone all the time for a hundred billion years.

[thegollux]

Every Every Every Generation Has Been the Me Me Me Generation

Basically, it's not that people born after 1980 are narcissists, it's that young people are narcissists, and they get over themselves as they get older. It's like doing a study of toddlers and declaring those born since 2010 are Generation Sociopath: Kids These Days Will Pull Your Hair, Pee On Walls, Throw Full Bowls of Cereal Without Even Thinking of the Consequences.

- Elspeth Reeve

The perfect takedown to that bullshit TIME article calling Millennials the ME ME ME Generation, and every single KIDS TODAY, SO TERRIBLE, SO MUCH WORSE THAN KIDS EVER BEFORE claim.

[randomberlinchick]

Although the National Review had no editorial responsibility for Derbyshire's article, it said he was so closely associated with the magazine that his "outlandish, nasty and indefensible" writing was in effect a letter of resignation.

John Derbyshire fired for article urging children to avoid African Americans | World news | guardian.co.uk

Elspeth Reeve, writing for the Atlantic, called Derbyshire's article "race-baiting".

"You're probably familiar with the phrase 'No offense, but …', which always precedes something offensive wrapped in an 'I'm just telling it like it is' attitude. In certain parts of the country, there's a similar use of the phrase, 'I'm not racist, but …', which always signifies that the speaker is about to say something racist. Derbyshire's specialty is the fancy-pants version of 'I'm not racist, but …,'" Reeve wrote. However, Reeve also writes for Taki's Magazine, where Derbyshire's article remains online despite the uproar.