So you are the arbiter of when someone is an adult? Not even legal age of consent makes it ok? Who made you the judge? In France they seem to think it’s ok, why is your opinion more valid than theirs? Furthermore, science shows that brains are not done developing until after 25 years old. Do you suggest people only…

Will it be ok in a month when she turns 18? How about in Paris, where they were recently. Is it ok there? If they drive to Nevada where the age of consent is 16?

You are articulate and intelligent. And I agree with ever single thing you said. The part about age of consent is exactly what I was trying to say, albeit less articulately.

In this country, populated by pearl-clutching Puritans. In Europe you actually hang out at the sample places. It’s not uncommon for people in high school to date people in uni. They listen to the same music, go to the same bars, wear the same fashions. I will ring the rest of the world to let them know you disapprove.…

Nuance, being the operant word, is not easily found on this forum. It seems we are in the minority. See, for example, the comment below mine, where the commenter, in a pearl clutching fit, threatens us with the day our children date an “adult”. You see there is an invisible forcefield someone crosses when they turn 18…

What I am saying, and maybe you are not capable of understanding, is that someone under 18 dating someone over 18 does not automatically mean statutory rape and emotional/sexual abuse. Some of us are able to use our brain more critically and see that relationships are more nuanced than that. And while there are some…

Oh, creepiness. Ok. Now it’s clear that this is a mature discussion.

Not a K fan for sure. But yes. I agree that relationships like that need to be taken on a case-by-case situation. In the US we think we have the moral mantle to decide what is right and what is not. We decide to draw the line at 18 when you magically are able to consent to sex and anyone who draws the line at 17 or 16…

I LOOOOOVE CDV and Judy Greer!

Yeah no... Because Nicki Minaj is many things, but self absorbed? Never.

“Finding it ironic to parade the pit women against other women argument about as one unmeasurably capitalizes on the take down of a woman...” Kids: this is what happens when you don’t stay in school.

Well, have you read her song lyrics?

It’s not about the issue. It’s a about the way you described it. You rambled about your personal experience in a way that makes it seem like you are ranting to your girlfriends, not talking about the challenges artists face when putting their work out in public. A bit more composure would have made it more relevant to…

This is not about you.

In this context I think it is a big deal. The author is throwing the K-Pop members’ race into the mix, when it doesn’t really apply here. Were they US based, then yeah, for sure. What I meant to articulate is basically what you have said - these singers at home are the equivalent of Taylor Swift’s whiteness here. They…

Chicks look pretty pale to me. You get to decide who is white and who isn’t now? What exactly is it based on this? Because this idea of WOC is pretty unique to the US and quite arbitrary too. Also, WOC is used to talk about certain people’s experience as a smaller group in the mostly-anlgo US. Koreans in Korea are not…

My thoughts too. They are similar because they both used cliched images for sci-fi. Just like Kanye’s Stronger is basically a shot-by-shot live action video of Robotech.

Also, these are Koreans in Korea. Pretty sure they don’t consider themselves WOC struggling in a race power play with Taylor Swift.

K-Pop stars aren’t artists of color. They are Koreans in Korea. They are not subjugated minorities. Americans don’t get to decide that people are less powerful minorities whoever they are, wherever they go, wherever they live, just because they are a minor group in the US.

Who wrote that headline? Because it should have been “Nicki Minaj Cravenly Inserts Herself Into Taylor Swift’s VMA Moment”. She is the one who dealt a jab without being brave enough to tag Swift. Minaj doesn’t have a VMA moment, Swift does. Anaconda is a bad video. It’s gross. And badly produced, and degrading to…