I did a quick check of your comments history and you pretty much come off as a humorless scold who constantly references your homosexuality. You might imagine yourself as hilarious and full of levity but you come across closer to these people than Oscar Wilde so, maybe, “glass houses” and all...

It was a wonderful film! And the animation was gorgeous! It’s not fair!

I think these are both great choices. I actually like Frozen quite a bit and know that Lee had various degrees of involvement in the making of Wreck-it Ralph, Zootopia, Moana and Big Hero 6 seems to be proof that she has the creds and the taste to head Disney animation (though, my hope for another traditional…

You’re a little foggy on the villains? Even the weather-controlling Cold Turkey? What about the super-genius Dr. Hoot? Jailhouse Roc? King Kone? Frogzilla?

Personally, I’m hoping for Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew.

My solutions.

MTV was willing to play rap songs if they had rock guitar in them, yeah

Yup. MTV was playing rap songs so the guy I was talking to was full of shit. Which makes sense. He was maybe 1 or 2 years old at the time.

And this was also what most people thought hip-hop was — goofy-ass party rap by guys in silly pants.

None of…

I just checked their comments history. One of the guys (Constant Colors) that I’m arguing with was born in the early 90's and the other guy (Stepped Pyramids) was 7 at the time. I’m talking with people who have no idea what the fuck they are talking about.

A situation where I let somebody have sex with me, even though I don’t want to have sex, because I don’t want them to leave the relationship? Fair enough.

I’m sorry but you’re wrong.

Doggystyle was the first hip-hop album to have such a large effect on the mainstream music landscape.

Nope. Raising Hell by Run DMC, in 1986. Triple platinum and changed the landscape. Licensed to Ill came out, later that year, and became the first Hip Hop album to hit #1 and sold over 10…

Oh, OK. I get it now. Thanks for the clarification.

No I’m not and I actually describe it as abuse in the comment that you’re replying to.

I remember Sha Na Na being everywhere back in the 70's. Game shows, music festivals, talk shows, their OWN show. Considering that they were just basically a cover band, they were shockingly successful.

I don’t get what you’re saying. Of course, you could choose to believe it or not. It looks like most people believe it. What is your argument, exactly? That people shouldn’t believe it?

I grew up in the white suburbs and while that might have been true in the 80's, it was not even close to being true in the 90's.

I don’t. I think it’s horrible but, as horrible as it is and as much as she was crying, she gave him consent and she did so because she didn’t want him to leave the relationship. It was fucked up but it wasn’t rape. It wasn’t even “essentially” rape.

According to the essay, Hardwick controlled almost literally every aspect of her life and treated her like a sex doll, essentially raping her on a regular basis.

Purdom is claiming that hating Hip Hop was culturally overwhelming 25 years ago. It wasn’t. Did it exist? Sure. It exist now but it wasn’t “deafening” or even common in the day’s media (of which I used magazines as an example) and that’s my problem.

Listen, I’m glad that something like a re-release of Jazzmatazz is being covered here but I’m not happy that a writer with no idea of the era is making incorrect statements in an attempt to put a work into context.

These arguments are best met with silence—they rebut themselves—but you have to imagine how deafening they were a quarter-century ago

Was Clayton Purdom even alive in the 90's? Was he a small child? A few weeks ago, he tried to pretend that the The Truman Show was a “mind-blowing” film that prophesied reality…