Devon Windsor & Kim Kardashian & # 39; Struggles & # 39; Mock Women of Color

Now, you should just sit down and eat your food …

The IMG model Devon Windsor, who, I am sure, is a pretty kind, even naively naive girl, has discovered how sometimes – okay, most of the time – it's better just listening When people talk about a struggle, you can not dwell on it, rather than inserting yourself and your own struggle into the conversation.

That's what happened during last Thursday's episode of brand new docuseries Team of models sure E!, When Windsor (who quietly has the whitest name ever – unless you came from some Caribbean places) tried to join a conversation that other models had about diversity.

Cast members, Shanina Shaik (who is Australian of Pakistani, Arabic and Lithuanian descent – and recently married to DJ Ruckus), Ping Hue (who is American of Chinese descent) and several other color models of Fashion industry and the struggles they had to face. By telling stories of exclusion from casts, opportunities and even whole weeks of fashion (we see you, Milan) because of their race and / or color, they were joined by Windsor and comrade Olivia Culpo, who asked what they were discussing.

"The diversity."

"Diversity?" (Cue awkward break and instant appearances of discomfort among white models.)

Hue graciously tried to throw her comrades a preventative lifeline (because that's what WoC often does), saying that she knows "it's really hard to understand." Surely, Culpo and another model by letting her peers know that she too has been oppressed.

"I've literally gone through hell," Windsor says, noting that she has struggled to become a rising model for two years in Europe, where she spoke neither Italian nor "Parisian".

"I do not think you can relate to the upheavals of being different," countered Hue calmly.

Sensing that her struggle might not be perceived as the burden she felt, Windsor doubled.

"Do you know how hard it is to be blonde?" She asked, clearly unaware of the horrified looks of her peers. "I have to get a strong moment every month!"

Maam Ton blues do not like mine. Trust.

According to The Cut – which made the front page of Windsor with its title: "White Model says she can get revenge for the struggles of WOC, because it is necessary to be noticed, it is deceive" –Windsor was since apologized for his culturally insensitive blunder. But at the risk of sounding as insensitive as she did, what white blank does your world have to compare to your choice to be a chemically enhanced blonde with being a real person of color? Do these strengths infiltrate his brain? Who are his parents? Hell, who is she friends?

Maybe we should ask another, more famous E! starlet of the network, Kim Kardashian, who shocking developer the Sunday episode of The amazing Kardashian family that she does not like her big ass (and she can not lie).

"I'm sorry for it every day," she said.

You mean those buttocks?

Or this ass?

We will not talk about the highly controversial origin and upkeep of Kardashian's back because we can not argue about how much she has contributed to her fame and her income. Nor can it be disputed that what is considered a highly marketable good (pun intended) on one's body rarely attracts the same admiration or the same success on the millions of black and brown girls who walk in comparable proportions.

But for Kardashian – the mother of two black girls who can grow up with similar shapes to her – it is obvious that publicly excusing an asset she has been exploiting for years speaks volumes about her privilege. Like Windsor, there is a great luxury to complain about a feature you've been able to market to your advantage, while at the same time rejecting the very real hardships of women of color.

But hey, it's good TV, I guess.