I'm not even remotely close to agreeing with blue-haired_lawyer, but you are definitely misusing the concepts you're throwing around.
"Butch" simply means hyper-masculine. That is something that is representative in all human cultures. It is not a western concept. It is not a racist idea.
Look.
Imagine if you had been presented with these drawings in a different context.
Imagine if the artist simply showed you his work directly. "See? I made the princesses male!"
Would THIS have been your response to him?
"Would it have been so difficult to butch them up a bit?"
No. You would not have said that.
This is…
Calling out a cultural commentator is, in my view, different than calling out an artist/creator.
I am highly allergic to the extremely negative slant the press takes towards those who actually create things for public consumption.
"Cultural appropriation" is a highly intellectual concept, formulated in academia. I do…
Not all of us are members of "call-out culture." Some of us are too busy enjoying things to pick through cultural artifacts for the purpose of discovering yet a new level of 'problematic.'
The joke is that she didn't go to the Grammys, hence the Rihanna-less red carpet pic.
Are you asexual or...
But Madonna is bisexual...(or, as some would call it, hypersexual...)
Hah, I'm a total stan. But it's nice to see someone sane in this conversation. I have defended Miley on this site countless times and I'm definitely no fan of hers...
To be quite honest, Jezebel + its community is relentless and cruel in its take-downs of women in the public eye. No one is safe. It's kind of ironic,…
I wish I could say the same. But I guess I'm just a glutton for punishment...
Regardless of her age, she remains one of the best performers out there. Is everyone forgetting that she killed it at the Super Bowl in 2012? Yeesh...
Helen Mirren has almost certainly had plastic surgery. So I'm not sure what you're saying here.
Additionally, Madonna is highly sexual because that is, in fact, a big part of WHO SHE IS. She was that way before she was famous, and she remains that way now in her 50s. I don't see how anything she does now conveys a lack…
Honestly, I can only imagine what it's like to be a famous (female) celebrity who is physically aging in the public eye.
The reason why I have compassion for Madonna, and her decision to have work done, is because she is constantly skewered for "looking old."
But then there's the other side that tells her she's…
No, I don't think that she is perpetuating that idea. I think society is perpetuating the idea that only young people can act "young" and old people are allowed to act "old." Case in point? Literally every single comment on this thread.
I've been arguing with people about this since the early 00's, when everyone…
But can you exist in today's world without utilizing and participating in the inherently exploitative/evil system that is global capitalism? Because this conversation about sodastream comes off as... trite. To put it lightly.
Dear everyone that has been giving me shit and telling me the criticisms lodged against Madonna are NOT about her age:
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