*Ginsburg. The two spellings (e.g., Alan) always get me!

This is a bit of a stretch - Instagram is shallow and bringing up Nabokov seems a little much - but I see your point.

There’s a lot to pull apart in your post, but briefly, just one aspect: people have last names. Those are often markers of ethnicity. As are the schools people went to (they may come from a school in inner-city Atlanta or Oakland, for instance). Then there’s gender.

I kinda just consider him a body mechanic, because it’s the only way his moronic ideas about science and history make any sense to me.

Jia’s a fucking genius. This guy, not so much.

Are you kidding? Have you googled Jia’s work or just skimmed it on Jezebel? She's one of the most brilliant writers publishing right now, period, you effing ignorant nutcase.

The song is about not wanting to be baby-talked and finding it “creepy.” The video sexualizes babies or a baby-like woman and so does the opposite of what she would wish. Why? Because infantilization makes $$$. But she can still say she’s *actually* making the opposite point. So...everybody wins!!!! Feminists and…

Are you in my brain?

Soooo many pop stars’ gimmick (including Katy perry in teenage dream and elsewhere...) It’s almost like infantilization is a mainstream (male?) fetish and it makes so much money that it's encouraged. Ugh

Yours is a life well-lived.

Why cringe? The look is fun!

People who say bey doesn't have a great voice are idiots. She's got a James brown-style voice - it's meant to swing and bop and punch. James wasn't great with the ballads. Either is Beyoncé. But she can sing.

I guess not on the level Gaga desired (with the exception, yes, of Adele). She wanted FAME, after all.

Bowie and Freddie Mercury wore lavish costumes and it didn't distract.

Unfortunately I don’t think she would have had an opportunity to show her musical chops - which she's finally doing now, with tony Bennett and in other performances - had she not gone that route.

Her image is part of her talent whether you or I or anyone else approves of that. It's not like it was the simplest image to maintain.

So sad that an Aryan nose is still preferred. Hers was an elegant nose! Every time someone does this, I just think “that’s (internalized) racism!”

“Which kid I belong to” heheh. VS other way around.

My suggestion: break it off. Now.

It makes me sad that I feel that the refugees in Canada will be more welcomed than they are here. I’m genuinely worried they won’t feel welcomed and will hate it here in the U.S. This Cosmopolitan scientist is going to Troy, Michigan? Can someone please console me and tell me that it’s a nice place and people will…