Nice assumption that I'm straight. I'm not, but I didn't think I needed to shout it from the rooftops in order to make a point. I'm also not being abrasive, unless stating facts is abrasive, and I guess I can't be sorry about that. I'm pointing out that the lyrics you seem intent on believing are about hip hop are, in…

So you're saying Mary Lambert's experiences as a gay person are less valid just because her music is a different genre? Ok then. At no point was the song about a gay hip-hop artist. It's about not being a dickhead to people just because they're gay. But apparently you (and Callie) think that it's not possible for…

Uh he collaborated with a lesbian folk singer, which elevated the profile of someone who doesn't have all those advantages and brought someone with personal experience into the narrative. Fuck him, right?

I thought that thing where you imagined what it felt like to be someone else and experience what they are experiencing was called empathy, and was supposed to be good? Apparently not.

Read the lyrics to Same Love. This entire Jezebel article is just... wrong. Macklemore didn't co-opt any gay experience, never claimed he wrote an anthem, etc. It's all Beusman misinterpreting or flat out making things up. :|

The key words there being "the way they have", meaning creating a song of that type that has massive commercial (read: radio) success. Most people have never heard of homo hop, but they have heard Same Love. Also, Homo Hop largely preaches to the choir, rather than trying to create social change.

When I first heard about the backlash against Macklemore for writing an explicitly pro-LGBT anthem my eyes rolled so hard they almost fell out of their sockets.

Yeah, he isn't Kylie Minogue, Cher, or the Village People.

Also, please. Can we stop with the ally bashing?

The song starts with the lyrics "When I was in the third grade I thought that I was gay" and goes on to tell his story and perception of "gayness". So I don't think Macklemore was attempting to make a "gay anthem" or speak for the LGBT community. The fact that the song became a hit and resonated with people speaks to…

I agree as a white person raised in a neighbourhood with very strong carribean influence I grew up with the food, music and dress synonymous with carribean culture. I worry now that if I express my love for reggae or dress in a certain way I will be accused of appropriating even though that's just how I grew up. Just…

I agree. She probably didn't. It does seem complicated because she's performing in front of the world. I do agree that parts of her routine were unintentionally racist and demeaning to women. I think for her ratchet culture is like when a girl in junior high or high school decides that she feels goth. She sees people…

I don't know if she's saying that. I think she's saying, " I want to be cool. I want to be relevant and I want to push the boundaries with my sexuality. " This is just a means to an end for her. She's trying to find a niche to exploit that says "I'm not that little girl anymore! I like drugs and sex!" She just using a…

I just think it's dangerous because most people don't take the time to think of Black culture as nuanced. Or even that culture is nuanced. Let's say that Miley Cyrus had grown up twerking. Would she be wrong for wanting to express herself in that way in front of the world? When Andy Cohen interviewed Oprah Winfrey…

If your joke had been funny...or, you know, a joke...you wouldn't have been jumped on. Instead, you went with a prototypically bro-tastic "penises are gross because I am a masculine man" blast. This is usually read as a homophobic sort of statement. If you didn't know that before, now you know.

You'd best hurry to a strip club or find a back issue of Maxim or the SI Swimsuit Issue. Otherwise, you might get an irreversible case of The Gay.

I don't think you have to be an "afficianado" to know that if an article is about a picture of a dick, said dick will likely be shown. And as you were the one who brought yourself here, then what exactly did you think was going to be shown and discussed? And finally, if an erect penis makes you want to lose your…

You clicked on a link that included a mention of a dick. What did you expect? (Also, you posted this comment at 1:33 p.m. Eastern, so either you're a West Coaster or you should eat breakfast earlier.)

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