If I might make an attempt at nuance here, the idea that many psychiatrists are too quick to throw pills at something and call it a day is both true and a big problem. I speak from personal experience - I struggled for years futilely against clinical depression with a series of RXs that never much helped until I…

Also, the Queen was making her wear pantyhose for formal occasions. Pantyhose! Yuck!

It’s *amazing*, the things that can impel us to willingly do math.

I really love how deep you went into this. Mostly cos it means that I can get back to work after lunch and not take an extra half hour googling Smurfs and Gargamel and drawing charts and graphs and attaching red strings to a board on my cube only to look like Charlie by the end of the day.

Maybe I’m missing something (I haven’t read the work you mention, after all), but what does her hair color have to do with posturing? Is that how this is perceived? It’s a pretty normal thing to have bright hair colors, and I don’t see that as posturing.

I just did some quick calculations based on screen grabs from the cartoon, and EITHER an apple = 3" and Gargamel is a short motherfucker (about four and a half feet) and Azrael is within normal range for a domestic cat, OR we’re talking giant Honeycrisp apples at like 4" high and Gargamel is six feet tall and Azrael…

While you have a valid point, she didn’t say all rap. She pointed to rap written by people she specifically knows. There is a difference between that and calling out an entire genre. Could she have been more careful and chosen a less hot button genre? Probably. She could have named her neighbor specifically and since…

Graham explained that she chose to deliver her son at home in a birthing pool knowing that her “anxiety would’ve been through the roof” at a hospital because she doesn’t like hospitals, joking that “there’s a really big granola girl” inside of her.

Happy to upvote but Jolene is almost half a century old. She’s talking about Rap today. By people she knows. Two very different things. I’m not a fan (although I do love bad guy) I just think we have more important things to outragasm over. 

Whirlwind marriage at a young age, drugs, affiliation with questionable religious group, hypochondria with iffy diagnoses, it’s like he's playing celebrity trainwreck-bingo

She’s also not reducing all of rap to that, which this article inexplicably does. She merely pointed out that there’s a lot of it in rap these days, and she’s not wrong.

Yeah, I kind of doubt she’d be calling out Dolly for a songe which debuted nearly three decades before she was even born.

I remember as a kid learning that Smurfs are 3 apples tall and being really creeped out. When I imagined them like 1 plum tall, they were cute, and then 3 apples tall was when I said “ight I’mma head out.”

The Daily Mail is trash, and continues to be with its ridiculous headlines and articles.

Also in the profile—some thoughts Eilish has on music that is not hers, including rap.

You’re not confused.

It may be a difference without distinction but she’s likely saying she’s telling fiction and makes it widely known that it is fiction, but that the artists that she’s calling out are telling fiction but trying to pass it off as nonfiction. Therefore, she may not be doing, at least in her mind, the exact same thing,…

This doesn’t even sound like criticism, she’s just describing what she doesn’t want to do. She didn’t say those songs suck.

but she isn’t “reducing rap” she is discussing how it is in some songs by people she knows, and thats how she knows they are lying. This seems to be more of a hit piece than genuine. saying that some songs in any genre have a problematic element is not reducing the entire genre.