Yeah, I noticed that. I don't know why they did that but, whatever. It's their sandbox, they just let me play in it.

Young people (and even adults) emulate celebrities. It's the way of things.

To which I can only respond, "So what?"

As I wrote, a lot of what you mention is a personal problem.

Since I wrote the first comment on this entire article's thread (the one you're responding to here) , there were no other arguments or discussions to read or respond to. But everything in my comment refers to something in Ms. Stewart's article above.

Oh, I really believe that's the case, too.

That's fine. I know where you're coming from.

I don't know, this all sounds like a personal problem to me.

"also - love big freedia - but how come the argument of commodifying black women's bodies doesnt apply to her? her twerk team never even turns around during the performance. all we see are (amazing) ass movement."

You are SO welcome.

Yes, they can.

What offends me is that while generations of black artists were stolen from, including by beloved pop and rock acts, this woman is getting shit as if she's doing that, too.

They get attention, page views, and, for Rolling Stone, sales.

""I'm from one of the wealthiest counties in America," she says. "I know what I am. But I also know what I like to listen to. Look at any 20-year-old white girl right now – that's what they're listening to at the club. It's 2013. The gays are getting married, we're all collaborating. I would never think about the…

Yeah, I think those people have bigger problems than Oprah describing her feelings at that time as a "breakdown" and wanting to make clear (so the entertainment and even serious media didn't go to town on it) that she want to go full on Martin Lawrence or that Kony guy, running down the street naked and crazed.

That's what sucks.

It was good for a sitcom. Entertaining, somewhat light. But it wasn't good in any other way. It was reductive, simple-minded, and thought its audience were made up of sex-starved, developmentally disabled, head trauma victims who just woke up out of a coma that started sometime around the time "Are you being served?"…

You RULE for pointing all this out. Thank you.

Oh great. Another romantic evocation of sociopathic thrill seeking murderous scum.

God forbid anyone talk about a personal experience in a way that refers only to themselves.