Blah blah blah she's too sexual, showing her butt, blah blah blah. I don't get it either.

But then by that logic, you can either be a strong, powerful woman OR you can be the type of woman who has a lot of ass shots. I feel like the whole point of this album and the accompanying videos is that strong Madonna/Whore complex personified. I mean, Bey literally is dressing up as the Madonna at one point, and…

Nah, I wasn't saying it female gaze because I find it sexy—it's generally using the female gaze because of how avant-garde her fashion choices are. To me, it feels like the butt is part of a larger, more weird aesthetic. You know how lots of guys say stuff like, "Oh, it's sexy when a woman doesn't look like she's…

Actually, it felt like it was being made for the female gaze. As I was watching her album, I had no bad feelings about all her butt shots. It's because she is super hot, but it's also avant garde and weird and ugly and visually fascinating.

I dunno...Kanye is the celebrity equivalent of the annoying facebook relationship. Which makes me think it's a whole lot of talk.

"Pew found that 51% of millennial women and 55% of female boomers believe that it's easier to be a man than a woman."

You're talking about the Kanye thread! Yeah, that was ridiculous. As a non-Jewish person, it's clear to even me that we still have some weird problems with Jews in our society. It was so ridiculous to have to keep saying over and over again that, just because a lot of Jewish people are successful, does not mean Kanye…

I'm at a weird spot where you're doing the dance. As a feminist, and someone who wants to have a relationship between two equals, it's really hard for me to accept the wait-til-your-prince proposes narrative. A couple months ago, I really felt like I needed to have a serious talk about where the relationship was…

Yeah, I didn't really get the central love story in SOM when I was little (he's ooooold) and I cared more about Liesel. I watched it again recently and finally understood. Christopher Plummer is a handsome, handsome man and "Something Good" is one of the most wonderful love songs. As an adult, I felt like I was…

I actually wouldn't pick Rihanna for the second example...maybe Ye Olde Miley? Katy Perry in her whipped-bra days? There was a totally cool article on The Hairpin of how Rihanna acts both as stripper in customer in her video Pour it Up and inverts the narrative of how women sell sex, men buy sex. I dunno, take it with…

Oh man, she really did look so much better before. I feel like people who get a lot of plastic surgery don't age "right"...she's probably going to regret that in 10-20 years when she has to keep doing more and more.

Just because he is impacted by colorism does not mean he is immune from criticism as a perpetrator. I still criticize women who display internalized sexism.

Oh my gosh, really? There was hashtag this August about #blackpowerisforblackmen started by an Ebony editor. Elaine Brown, who chaired the Black Panther party, wrote about her experience with sexism and patriarchy in her memoir. You can google this—its well documented.

Maybe it's my new birth control, but I literally cried through the entire first half of this movie. I loved it.

Jewish people aren't taking anything away from black people. I'm not sure what you're referencing here.

You can care about colorist issues and the disproportionately high rate of poverty for black Americans. Caring is not a zero sum game. Why do you feel it is necessary to devalue women's feelings?

That's exactly the problem—treating women like objects that you can "take" from one race to achieve equality, while simultaneously denigrating darker skinned women.

Model minority is a very problematic term. It pits minorities against each other, underplays real acts of discrimination, and devalues people's individual achievements. I understand what he's saying—that people benefit from networking connections that black people can't compete with— but there is a large difference…

I could get over it with Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, but Yeezus is really not my favorite. I know, I know, it's supposed to be ugly. But "black girl sipping white wine/put my fist in her like a civil rights sign." I get it, I just really hate it. It's so violent. The RapGenius annotation says something like, "Oh,…

Yeah, I see what you're saying. I think a lot of the girls in the club who like those shout outs aren't really thinking about the implications of those lyrics (You're an object!! You're given the same amount of worth as an expensive car!!) but are rather seeing it as an affirmation of their desirability, which is also…