13 best clapbacks of 2016, from "delete your account" to Amber Rose"s s**t-shaming rebuke

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We all love a good clapback. It"s a comeback but with that extra oomph. And while 2016 may have been a literal trash fire for many reasons, this year has been a goldmine for people telling each other exactly how they feel with emphasis.

Ariana Grande in master clapback form Source:Giphy

Here are just a few reasons that 2016 will go down in history as the clappiest year in history. So put your hands together and enjoy this rundown.

Hillary Clintonto Donald TrumpHillary ClintonSource:Matt Rourke/AP

In June, Hillary Clinton like the rest of us had it up to here with Trump"s incessant tweeting. In response to a tweet mocking President Barack Obamafor endorsing Clinton, the Democratic nominee quote tweeted Trump and responded with three words that reverberated throughout the internet: Delete. Your. Account.

Amber Rose to PinkAmber RoseSource:Evan Agostini/AP

In the world of clapbacks, Amber Rose reigns as queen. In March, after singer Pink tweeted a subtly s**t-shaming quote on International Women"s day, rose responded with a defense of women who embrace their sexuality.

"d**n Pink we were all born n***d society sexualizes our breast and bodies," Rose wrote. "Pink, we"ve seen you d**n near n***d swinging from a rope (beautifully) but what"s the difference between a rope, a pole and a pic onInstagram? Classism."

Amber Rose to InstagramhomophobesAmber Rose"s sonSource:Instagram

Amber Rose"s clapbacks are probably strongest when people are coming for her own family. In August, Rose responded to homophobic Instagramcommenters who worried that her son would turn out to be gay because he was playing around in one of his mother"s wigs.

"Wow you people are so smart, huh?" Rose wrote. "Putting on a wig is gonna make a baby gay? Straight guys, do yourself a favor ... Put on a wig and see if [you"re] turned on by another man ... I"ll wait. And ladies, seriously grow the f**k up and educate yourselves."

Kim Kardashian-West to Taylor SwiftKim Kardashian-WestSource:Andy Kropa/AP

Clapbacks don"t always have to happen in the moment. In 2016, Kim Kardashian-West taught us all the value of the long-game clapback. In July, Kardashian spurred a Twitter firestorm when she released video of Taylor Swiftgiving the go-ahead to Kardashian-West"s husband, Kanye West, to use a lyric saying the two might one day have s*x. Previous to the video leak, Swift contended that she didn"t know about the lyric.

In the video, Swifttells Westto "go with whatever line you think is better." Swift also admitted the line is "obviously very tongue-in-cheek either way."

Megan Brown to sexist dude

Dealing with sexism is a constant and bloggerMegan Brown found the best way to fight it head on. When a guy she started talking to asked her to rattle off all the National League East baseball teams, she responded with wit and then made the conversation public.

"When meeting ordatingguys it"s common for them to attempt to quiz women to test if they "really" are sports fans," Brown toldUproxx. "It seemed pretty condescending plus it was something sobasic it was kind of insulting. Instead of responding with the teams (first instinct) or ignoring, I decided to have a little fun."

Kroger to gender-specific bathrooms

After North Carolina passed its controversial "bathroom bill" HB2, several private businesses responded by clarifying their own positions on who can use which bathroom. One Kroger grocery story in Athens, Georgia, said that it had unisex bathrooms "because sometimes gender specific toilets put others into uncomfortable situations." The sign outside the bathroom listed the groups the bathroom existed for, including parents with small children, parents with disabled children, those with a physical or mental disability and LGBTQpeople.

Constance Wu to Hollywood"s lack of diversitySource:Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

Fresh Off the Boat actress Constance Wu has been a fervent advocate for a greater diversity of faces and voices in Hollywood. When the trailer for Matt Damon"s upcoming film The Great Walldropped in July, the actress took to Twitter to give everyone a piece of her mind. In her own words, "Our heroes don"t look like Matt Damon."

Simone Biles v. body shamersSource:Eric Christian Smith/AP

Anyone looking for ways to deal with body shamers, look no further than Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles. After haters stormed an Instagrampost of hers, she responded with a tweet that reminded the trolls that it wasn"t about them. "You can judge my body all you want, but at the end of the day it"s my body," she wrote. "I love it & I"m comfortable in my skin."

Billboards to political hateMississippi billboardSource:TheGailyGrind/Twitter

2016 was the year of going big or going home. As such, people who had something to say about Islamophobia or homophobia used one of the biggest venues possible: public billboards. In Mississippi, a roadside billboard lamented the passing of an anti-LGBTreligious freedom bill, while a billboard in Michigan took aim at Trump"s rhetoric regarding Muslims.

Chrissy Teigento trolls

When trolls tried to tell Chrissy Teigenhow to parent, all because she went out to dinner with John in the first month after the birth of her child, Teigen shut it down.Teigen screenshotted the haters and shared the messages on Twitter. She also mocked the passive aggression of many of the commenters who were trying to offer unsolicited advice on mothering.

Teen to homophobic auntSource:Twitter

Proving that you need not be a celebrity or a billboard to clapback, with one text, a teen told off her homophobic aunt, who called the young girl a "f****t":

Don"t worry about it! I know what you"re like after a few bottles of wine. I can"t make Indie"s birthday I"m afraid, I have a huge lesbian orgy that day and me and the other faggots have been planning it for months. By the way how"s your divorce going? I saw uncle Lee with his new girlfriend, she"s 20 years younger than you right? Speak soon!Christine Blackmon to Dani MathersSource:Facebook

When Playboy playmate Dani Mathers took a Snapchatof a n***d woman at the gym, the n***d woman did not stay silent. In a post to her own Facebook, which has since turned private, Christine Blackmon, the woman from the gym wrote:

Here"s the deal you may have been a Playboy model, but not all of us work out to be "hot," some of us work out simply to honor the bodies we were given. That"s all that woman was trying to do and you violated her. Shame on you. I bet I could get hundreds of women to post their beautiful bodies and regardless of size, shape or color, they will ALL be more beautiful than the ugliness you showed in that post.

She added the hashtags #UnseeTHIS and #AllBodiesAreBeautiful at the end.

Skai Jackson to Azealia BanksSkai JacksonSource:Richard Shotwell/AP

When Azealia Banksbeglanguage at former One Direction member Zayn Malik, 14-year-old actress Skai Jackson began to tweet about the incident. When Azealia tried to come for her, she got an earful of what Jackson had to say.

Banks made fun of Jackson"s body, to which Jackson said, "Worry about your career. Get one."

When Banks said she had never heard of Jackson and that she was "only a meme," Jackson wrote: "A meme with 2.3 million Instagramfollowers. My memesare more relevant than you."

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Skai Jackson and Azealia Banks fought on Twitter Source:TwitterSkai Jackson and Azealia Banks fought on Twitter Source:Twitter

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Kanye needs to leave Amber Rose and her child alone: She has nothing to be ashamed of, and she knows it

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For a few minutes during his epic and now deleted tweet storm Wednesday, Kanye West was just plain hilarious, in his uniquely Kanye way. Raging at his fellow artist Wiz Khalifa, who had committed the crime of publicly expressing a lack of enthusiasm for the new name of Wests forthcoming album, WAVES, he issued proclamations seemingly begging to be turned t-shirts. You have distracted from my creative process, he railed. Maybe I couldnt be skinny and tall but Ill settle for being the greatest artist of all time for consolation. But then, asa bonus, hewent and provedhimself a world class jackass when it comes to talking about women.

As West continued to go nuclear, he took a pause from commenting on Khalifas music (corny as f__k) and pants (cool), toadd other bullet points to his list of the mans apparent shortcomings. 4th you let a stripper trap you. 5th I know you mad every time you look at your child that this girl got you for 18 years, he wrote, and later, 12th You wouldnt have a child if it wasnt for me. The references, as even those who cant follow the incredibly tangled system of former and current relationships orbiting the Kardashian sisters will recognize, were to model, entrepreneur and provocateur extraordinaire Amber Rose. Before moving on to other relationships, Rose and West dated for two years. She now has a nearly three year-old son with estranged husband Khalifa. Oh, and she started stripping as a teenager.

In an interview with Cosmopolitan last year, Rose discussed how she started out as an exotic dancer at age 15 to make money. I did it and I was like, Oh, h**l no, I cannot do this," she said. I was a kid. I think I was still a virgin at the time. Being onstage with my b***s out, it was like, Oh my G*d, this is not for me." But she soon grew to appreciate the job, continuing to dance until she was 25. That was the best time of my life! she said. Oh my G*d, I had so much fun. I really did. All the girls were really cool. The guys werent allowed to touch you. I was never sexually assaulted or [anything]. I was young, beautiful, I was onstage, I wasnt really ashamed of my body. I made lifelong friends. Lets just repeat that pertinent line: I wasnt ashamed.

Unfortunately, for a woman to not be ashamed is an unacceptable condition in many parts, and Rose has certainly spent the last several years enduring the taunts of those whod try to hoist embarrassment uponher. Last year, Kanyes sister-in-law Khloe Kardashian called out Rose over her comments about Kylie Jenner, saying, I was a stripper since I was 15 years old, Amber Rose told Foxx. Please dont worry about my sister who has a career & her s__t together at only 17. The implication, clearly, is that one cannot be a stripper and have her s__t together.

Around the same time, West jumped in the fray,saying on The Breakfast Club that Its very hard for a woman to want to be with someone whos been with Amber Rose. I had to take 30 showers before I got with Kim.

ButRose didnt care, firing back at critics taking issue with her for posting bikini pictures of herself on Instagram, now that shes the mother of a young son. Or as she put it, Kiss my MILFY a*s b*****s,In August she showed up with Blac Chyna at VMAs in outfits defiantly festooned with sexist slurs aimed at women just like them.

Rose can, obviously, take careof herself just fine. And on Wednesday, she shot back at Kanye West with a mic dropping and incredibly NSFW responsethat, in the process, laughed at him for getting bodied by a stripper. But as long as West brought it all up, lets just unpack the thorough grossness of what he said before deleting it all and explaining, All I want is peace and positive energy. We can even do this Kanye style.

First: He presumed that the word stripper is a pejorative, spitting out Roses former occupation as if it somehow is an insult to call a former stripper a stripper. (It is not.) Second: He suggestedthat Rose somehow trapped Khalifa, because they have a child together. Third, and frankly this ones the worst: West went after the guys toddler, narcissistically quoting his own Gold Digger in the process, suggesting that when he looks at his young son he feels not, say, parental pride, but the weary resignation of a man stuck with the boys stripper mom. Its quite the trifecta of classic sexist BS. Theres the trying to shame a man by pointing at his woman, because, right, this is really about the boys and the ladies are just there as symbols of their status in the world. Theres the assumption that a man would have to have been trapped to love and have a child with a former stripper, and of course, theres the continued straight up attempting to humiliate a woman forever havinga job that involved her body.

When I talked on Thursday to my friend Lily Burana, who like Rose spent the better part of a decade as a stripper and authored the memoir Strip City, we were both still agog. From Kanye to Tina Fey to Family Guy," she told me, knocking strippers is a perennial dis. Its misogyny; its s*x worker phobia; its completely anti-feminist. That time is over. Take a seat. She addedthat being a stripper is not an insult. Its a resume bullet point. And seriously, man, if you have issues with women who use their sexuality to advance their careers, you sure picked an interesting family to marry into.

Source: http://www.salon.com/2016/01/28/kanye_needs_to_leave_amber_rose_and_her_child_alone_she_has_nothing_to_be_ashamed_of_and_she_knows_it/

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Amber Rose Gets Book Deal for 'How to Be a Bad b***h'

Model Amber Rose will write How to Be a Bad b***h, Simon & Schuster imprint Gallery Books announced Wednesday (Feb. 18).

The book, scheduled for publication on Oct. 27, 2015, will share Amber's secrets on how to be successful, covering love, beauty, fashion, finances and a career, as well as advice for confidence and self-acceptance.

Amber Rose Responds to Khloe Kardashian Tweets With Kanye West Memes

In a statement, Rose says a "bad b***h" is a "self-respecting, strong female who has everything together. This consists of body, mind, finances and swagger; a woman who gets her by any means necessary."

Jennifer Bergstrom, vice president and publisher of Gallery Books, added: "Amber Rose is the ultimate cool girl who you want to be best friends with. I know a lot of women who will want to read this book."

Photographer David LaChappelle, whose images have appeared on covers and pages of various magazines including Vanity Fair, GQ and Rolling Stone, will shoot Rose for the cover.

The 31-year-old recently made headlines for publicly feuding with reality star Khloe Kardashian. The Twitter war began when Rose spoke to New York's Power 105.1 about Kardashian's family and Kylie Jenner's alleged relationship with rapper Tyga.

Rose was introduced to Gallery Books by her manager, Nick Cannon, whose company, Nick's Ncredible Entertainment, is represented by ICM.

Rose was represented by ICM and attorney Walter Mosley on the deal.Jeremie Ruby-Strauss acquired the work for Gallery Books from Doug Johnson.

This article was originally published by The Hollywood Reporter.

Source: http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-juice/6473224/amber-rose-book-deal-how-to-be-a-bad-b***h

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