I guess Angelina in particular jumped out at me as having the most action-man, emphasis on man, kind of roles. Like, there’s definitely a gap between the treatment of Uma’s Bride and Angelina’s role in Salt, say. I’m not sure I am well able to articulate the difference, though.

Yeah, as I recall Nirvana had a similar Poe’s Law kind of issue with Polly. Didn’t STP try to make the same argument about Sex Type Thing? Trying to remember.

Re the 1975, I’m a straight male with no particular bias towards Matt Healy and a performatively judgmental music snob, and I’m happy to confirm for you that…

I don’t know, a lot of metal these days (source: sister heavily involved with black metal scene) tends towards the technical and the moody when you get past the abrasive aesthetic.

Yeah, Bush sucked, but he was right where he needed to be on the AIDS crisis and I got no beef with him or anybody who worked with him on it over that.

Reznor himself is a pretty good citizen from all accounts I’ve heard. There’s something to be said for catharsis.

I don’t think it’s that dudes need to be less angry; I think we just gotta start directing it in a more clearheaded way. It’s not the feminists who sent our dad’s factory job to China, you know? And I think the more of us start realizing that hey, the women aren’t making it up, the black folks aren’t making it up,…

Don’t forget Angelina Jolie! She carried a lot of those roles; people just categorized them differently because she was a woman.

Pearl Jam’s an interesting point of reference for him to make, considering their early work, and a lot of grunge more broadly, had some distinct feminist undertones (consider the young female subject of “Why Go” off the Ten album, say), and generally a good bit of social compassion. Eddie was masculine, but in very…

Right?? U2 isn’t exactly known for its bite, even in the Achtung, Baby era when they were arguably good.

That’s my take on it too, but yeah, I agree that’s still kind of an unfeminist attitude. God forbid dudes make music that’s not angry; it’s the same old toxically masculine straightjacket for us. If it’s the 1975 versus Five Finger Death Punch, I’ll take the girly shit, thanks. Besides, male musicians that don’t wave…

First album was superb, but I was less enchanted with the second tbh. Still, they killed live when they were at First Ave here in Mpls last time.

Not enough bath salts in this story for that. The harassment is way too mundane here. If he’d tried to spank her with a baby alligator, then you’d have a Florida story.

Hey, I think we’re on a moratorium for making fun of those guys after this last election

Has it occurred to you that they might not want to let out everything they know about someone’s cutting edge aerospace assets? There’s a reason besides his hair that Tsoukalos got ridiculed with memes. “I guess it must be aliens” isn’t a particularly convincing argument.

They’re not officially FBI anymore, right? Haven’t kept up but I know that was a thing at one point. Why not simply focus the action abroad? Have a Tunguska episode and send them off to eastern Russia. Like, there are Call of Cthulhu roleplaying sourcebooks you could crib entire arcs out of for the rest of the planet.

Man, every once in a while you get a Taylor pic where she doesn’t look pretty so much as strikingly handsome. Like, here (from the linked article) you could cut her hair and put her in a boy band. She’s wasted on men.

You think this is impressive, remember that fangirl Danielle Ceasar? She’s still with Jake T Austin two years later. They had a cute pic together for New Year’s on social media (don’t remember if it was Twitter or Insta or what)

They’re more bromance than romance, tbh. She has a type and it’s not Ron Weasley.

Remember all those Doom Paul gifs from years back? Maybe it’s time we make some with Hil

Hey, there was that urban legend about Phil Collins drowning somebody