Exactly. He was telling HIS story, and it's a story of most allies. Realizing that people are hurting and it's time to speak up and speak up loudly is a very important message. Must we really hate on everything?!?!

Totally. The issue is that he's championing gay rights and happens to be white, male, and straight? Please — why are we even talking about this like it's a problem?

I feel like they must go deep into the underground where there are subcultures of subcultures of subcultures to find these quotes.

They say write what you know. And I assume this goes for music as well. So, he wrote what he knew, his experience of dealing with this, his thoughts about the LGBT people in his life. Thanks for pointing this out. I like the way he did this.

I would completely agree with this. The way that I interpreted the song was not that he was trying to speak for the LGBTQ community, but that he was saying, hey everyone, stop being a bunch of dicks, because we're all the same. I would also take exception with the claim that his "connection to the LGBT community is…

Wouldn't be a little disingenuous for him to try to tell a story that wasn't his? I give him a lot of credit for saying "You know what? I haven't gone through this, but I recognize how wrong it is."

Agreed. I also think that any broad social support for equality for a minority group - be it racial, sexual preference, whatever - will only gain traction when it is embraced by the majority. Only having gay people support gay marriage doesn't do anything for the cause - the message has to be embraced, internalized…

I think everyone that wants to help a cause should do so in the way that they best can.

Can't anybody do anything good anymore? It's either suspicious, or it's just not good enough.

I am bi, and I don't have a problem with it. Fact of the matter is straight white men only listen to straight white men most of the time. And Macklemore hasn't taken up the 'MY GAYS!' position that others have (you know that attitude- the one Kathy Griffin took up ironically). I don't see him as any hero, but the fact…

Oh, I know that. Once they've sucked the culture and vibrancy out of a place they don't want anyone who isn't like them to be around. It's uncomfortable to be in White spaces and even moreso when they're so damn unwelcoming and frigid.

Eh, Silver Lake is just as bad. It's like White hipster/"liberal" heaven. Basically the same people just in a different location. I live in Little Armenia, the district right over, and I find those douchebag gentrifiers every bit of privileged, obnoxious, and shortsighted as their Westside counterparts.

I laughed.

Don't ruin it for the rest of us. That's a gorgeous shot.

mmmm, I could be convinced to do very bad things in exchange for those shoes. Maybe even do very bad things while wearing those shoes.

I'm trying to imagine a scenario where someone intentionally hurts my dog in front of me and I don't physically attack them, and the only thing I can come up with is children under 12. But I guess if you can't cut a bitch, cutting a bitch out of your life will have to do.

Fuck, I openly hate cats, but I'd never fucking hit one no matter how mad I was at it or its owner!!! What kind of person do you have to be to take out your anger on an animal??? (Answer: a terrible one)

I was only sort of joking when I said scientifically perfect. Tumblr uses this as proof:

PLS TELL ME THIS IS TROO

Zain is. I can't say I've ever seen it spelled like Zayn though.