Yeah, I’m Team Pete on this one. He was doing a promo for Saturday Night Live, for fuck’s sake, which is a COMEDY SKETCH SHOW. Ariana Grande’s response was stupidly immature. Quite frankly, I give massive side-eye to anyone who airs their personal issues on a public forum, whether or not they’re a celebrity. The whole…

That’s me in the corner... that’s me in the spotlight... dodging pugilism.

THANK. YOU. so tired of this "I'm too good for pop culture/black culture" bullshit.  

The two top-selling female rap artists of the past decade.

Don’t pretend they aren’t famous or important just because you don’t like their shit. It’s petty.

You’d think she was courting them and having meet and greets the way it is spoken of. She is not in the catbird seat here. I think it is very likely she is afraid of these violent men.

Oh cool we’re still on this subject, awesome

Also spending this much energy on criticizing celebrities who don’t endorse (or in Swift’s case are late to endorse) is silly. How is their inaction worse than the time the media wastes scrunitizing their inaction? This essay clearly took a lot of time to write. Has it really never occurred to the writers at Jez that…

But then they would actually have to do their jobs and possibly revise their biased opinions...so, yeah, it probably would kill them.

there is no denying that Swift holds sway over a dedicated court of young, politically engaged women who see themselves reflected in her music.

You asked a question, and I answered it (with my opinion of course).  If you didn't want to get an answer why did you ask the question?  And in a discussion forum.  

I think it IS killing them that she did this in the first place. This is making them look petty and spiteful.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Taylor Swift is speaking up now because she’s 28 years old. She’s coming into her own as a person, as a woman. She didn’t speak up before because she was smart enough to realize she was a young entertainer, an artist, and not a politico BUT anything she said would have influenced her fans. Now she…

I created a burner account just to say that you really need to use a dictionary and other reference tools when you write, because neither ‘prodigiousness’ nor ‘Occam’s Razor’ mean what you seem to think they do. 

I am not trying to excuse anyones behavior here and I do think she should have been politically outspoken a long time ago, but I don’t know if I would have it in me to rock the boat if I had to deal with stalkers like she has to deal with them. We don’t know her personal anxieties associated with provoking any more…

Shake it off!

Just stop.  This is getting old and ridiculous. 

Are you capable of writing about any soccer league outside of the European powers without being incredibly smug?

Dude is fast. He should try track.