You don’t understand the argument. It’s not an argument I’d ever pull, but I think it’s flying over the heads of people here (not surprised).

Do you want to take the time to work through the argument? It’s not as crazy as it sounds and no one is saying a woman is a chicken.

Is anyone going to argue about how their age difference is gross?

Johanna Unhinged more like it.

It’s an incredibly messy subject that takes a lot of time to sort through. I understand why people condense the disparate Afghani resistance. Who is really going to take the time to learn about the schisms between Hezb-i-Islami and its rivalry with Rabbani’s Jamiat-i-Islami that occurred in the late 70s? Or the ethnic…

Read my comment about the history of the Taliban.

Yeah, duh. However, the problem with trying to talk about the Taliban as a US created, armed, and trained entity (or something sorta related) is that they simply weren’t. They were largely a Pakistani response to the ongoing civil war post-Soviet intervention— you know, at that time, a civil war between resistance…

Nope. The Taliban didn’t exist at the time.

The US didn’t arm and train the Taliban.

I don’t think I’ve ever been disgusted by pundits like this my whole life.

The question I have to ask: What is useful in describing this as terrorism? If this was an attack issued by IS to coerce United States politics, what’s the aim? What sort of policy is being addressed? Is the attack intended to goad the anti-discrimination communities in the US to support robust military action in…

Trust me, you aren’t better read than me. No one uses the word corny the way the dictionary describes it— and reaching for the dictionary definition of corny tells us something. For instance, using Shakespeare as an example of master literature is corny. Not understanding that corny is the most efficient description…

I don’t think you understand how people use the word corny. Cool dictionary definition argument. No to everything else you wrote.

I’m not arguing that it isn’t art or can’t resonate. Lyrics (and poetry) rarely display great writing. This doesn’t stop people from exaggerating the quality and importance of content and style. I really can’t think of any lyrics from any genre that I would consider truly great writing. Sometimes middling but never…

I suggest expanding your range of the written and spoken word.

Being a vocal “virtuoso” isn’t really all that big of a deal. Cobain and Hendrix kinda blow as well. Just check out youtube for tons of corny kids making constipation faces while singing these awful songs. Why do people look like they are taking a massive dump when they sing this type of stuff?

Her songs are fluff.

Content is terrible. The ideas are corny. Everything is corny.

Totally. Black music is mainstream American culture. It isn’t segmented to exclusively black populations (and to think so is just dangerous essentialism). Trainer is just participating in reproducing what is currently popular on the market. Why people consume it is a different question because it’s horrible.

Beyonce isn’t “artistic.”