If they had showcased real sexism?

The Melvins play loose, they each respond to each other the same way free jazz musicians respond to each other. People who get that hear genius, people who don't hear a bunch of nonsense.

Slow Loris (a DMST side project) almost eclipsed Do Make Say Think for me. Of course that time Larry Ochs and Hamid Drake destroyed any possibility of enjoying Abdullah Ibrahim will always be legendary.

Probably had more to do with venue size, being there for something completely different, and fact that some big bands don't like their openers to sound good.

The 80s were unkind to a lot of things and it's not like time is doing very much for Cash's Rubin years. As I said before Johnny Cash was always there. I grew up among Gen-X'rs who knew the lyrics to Boy Name Sue, and recognized Ring of Fire whenever it appeared in something like a movie trailer. Rubin made him a pop…

Cash was always around and songs like Ring of Fire, Folsom Prison Blues, Boy Named Sue, and Sixteen Tons were always making the rounds. Rubin just gave him a 90s gothic gangsta makeover that was better suited the MTV crowd of the time. I don't think Rubin brought Cash back into the public consciousness, I think he…

You sound incredibly thin skinned. You also contradict yourself by using phrases like "it wasn't offensive at all" as a preamble to being offended, and "I get what they were trying to do" before completely missing the point.

Are at least aware that you're arguing with a group of men right?

I would say that he doesn't understand that the effects of casual sexism are extremely subtle and often aren't apparent till girls get older, and also he obviously doesn't watch TV with his children. He also missed the glaringly clear statement that this a problem that shows up in adolescents and that young kids don't…

You catch like the Patriots with fully inflated balls.

You're being a bit obtuse though. The ad is trying to demonstrate that the phrase is so deeply embedded that we all know exactly what it means, and the way he answers the questions demonstrates that we're all well aware that it's hurtful and that it's bullshit. It also gives the kid a chance to answer for his actions…

But you're missing the part where they are simply saying the way we as a society communicates makes young girls feel like they're under attack.

I don't understand where this anxiety is coming from. Saying things like "throw like a girl" is casual sexism against women and you seem to agree that we should stop that. This simply isn't about men, you think you've been fouled and you're not even in the same city as the stadium. You're either incredibly arrogant or…

Why is it that women can't have a female positive ad?

You have to be deeply insecure to be bothered by a female positive sanitary napkin commercial during the Super Bowl. You'd think they'd follow the example of the boy they're supposed to be supporting and be cognitively aware of what's going on.

I know I am.

I think it's more that they're attempting to respond to things that don't have a response. Sure, the tampon ad made you uncomfortable but there just isn't a legitimate vocalizable response to that discomfort. Sometimes things just are what they are, and the people who try to respond to them just end up sounding angry…

It's much more, "women don't behave and like things that I think they should and now I am justifiably angry at anyone that doesn't feed my personally invented view of humanity."

The death of Betamax being unfair has to be among the weirdest conspiracies.

You don't hang out in record stores do you?