Thanks!

Anyone who feels the need to post a video mansplaining why they aren't seeing a movie is a douchebag.

Exactly. Read anything about a towering figure in the arts and you find that the people around them say this. For example, Prince "worked ten times harder than anyone else." Eminem never went to parties after the show, he'd "be up in his hotel room, writing rhymes." Even Bob Dylan, who more than most musical…

So, some idiot wrote a bunch of stupid, far-fetched nonsense on the internet once, and this is a story somehow?

Is Dr. Luke a real doctor? What medical school did he go to? Where is the diploma?

This deserves more upvotes.

Blunder, sure hope nobody got fired, etc.

"By stepping aside, the waters of incivility and absurdity rushed forth…"

I can curl 50 pounds in one hand for eight reps.

I sit corrected! I guess Cooke's shadow was so long, it set the tone for the rest of the run. Thanks for the correction.

This sucks. Cooke was extremely talented.

How strange it is to be anything at all, really.

This has always, always bothered me. Can't the cups at least be full of Pepsi or something to give them heft?

"Just because we are public figures"

I understand. No day is about you and no one cares about you. So you feel the need to lash out.

Women are physiologically built to take online abuse. I think it may be the hips or the estrogen or something.

I tried to see what you're saying here, but you just seem to be bending yourself in knots to remain blind to a tree because you're in a forest.

* its last legs

As someone who doesn't care about Beyonce and hasn't heard the music, I think you sound proudly, deliberately obtuse here.

"Retreating to that veil is instinctive, even for Beyoncé, who until now has never created a work that is so black."