Celebrating the unintentional benefits of a systematic enslavement/genocide/what have you is profoundly absurd. The Nazis invented rockets and without them we wouldn’t have a space program, or the very many wonderful things that have been the result of our space program. It does not follow that we should therefore…

I’m sorry, all this pseudo-historic mumbo jumbo does not address at all what Columbus Day represents: a) the guy didn’t “discover” shit b) it is apologia for colonisation. Besides, all those “Western” inventions are based on the shared knowledge among cultures for centuries. To try to claim them as entirely Western is…

But what about indigenous on indigenous crime? We would really talk about that before we judge colonization.

Hilarious. In the same comment you both say that the Columbus was good for Native Americans and admit that their descendants now make up less than 2% of a large swath of land (present-day USA) that was originally 100% Native American.

That was an amazingly long-winded and much winding route to a final point that really has no foundation in reality.

I mean, this was probably over the top, but Taylor actually makes her breakups part of the album promo. leaving little clues in the liner notes, and dropping hints in interviews KNOWING that people will go nuts. People talking about her breakups isn’t sexism. They don’t do that Adele or Lana Del Rey or Katy Perry. She…

I loved that season.

Well, since it is so (according to you) pervasive, perhaps there may be some truth in some of it.

Ugh, I thought she was such a pill. She complained about two outfits, didn’t like the third, but seemed to completely unable to say anything but “Sleeves!”

And 100% beautiful. (Relevant.)

I don’t think posting the definition of fiction is making the argument you think it’s making.

That the Coens released a movie that stars exclusively white people should surprise no one, as they’ve been doing it for literally decades,

Can I ask a question that might get me in trouble?

Does this make Joanna a “complete asshole”?

My thoughts exactly on this article.

It’s not the job of this feature to educate readers about lupus—especially when Ms. Gomez doesn’t speak about it at length in what Billboard has released of the interview. She moves from lupus to her new album, so I moved from lupus to Bow Wow.

I have to say, Lady Gaga is killing it lately. She hit a rough spot when she fell from Dominant Global Pop Force to something more niche and specialty. But a combination of humility, self-knowledge and good advice has given us the Gaga I always kind of wanted.

That’s partly why I’m not completely convinced. I mean, would be super weird if she is lying about having Lupus. But I don’t think I ever saw her looking sickly, I see new pics of her every week always and she looked like she was always out and about and on beaches and shopping and at events. I’ve known 2 people who…

Huh. I think my response got eaten. If not, sorry for the double reply.