I’m not sure what this has to do with heterosexuality. This seems more like narcissists being narcissists. Implying that this is proof of some kind of overarching toxicity that exists as a unique part of heterosexual relationships is just dumb. 

I’m not sure why anyone would make a video like this, the pranks don’t seem funny in any way and it’s not exactly what I would consider a healthy thing to do in your relationship. It’s certainly not a nice thing to do to your partner. 

It’s not a stunted view to think that things should have specific qualities in order to be able to categorize them as that thing. Saying that the only quality for something to qualify as art is that it is someone expressing something in essence makes everything art, which is a ridiculous view of categorizing art. If…

So I’m other words, yes, you think a two year old finger painting is an artist. You can argue that, but I disagree. I do agree that experiencing art is part of the human experience, but clearly creating art is not. If that were the case everyone would have some form of artistic endeavour and that is not the case. Your…

It has nothing to do with capitalization of art or with training. It has to do with intention, skill, contribution to the larger art form and piece, among other things. It doesn’t even have to do with calling it a profession. But to say that anyone who does “art,” essentially boiling it down to someone doing a…

By that logic putting a bandaid on someone makes you a doctor and making a bowl of cereal makes you a chef.

No kidding. Really my comment was more about her rabid fan base than it was about her and it’s pretty clear that goes right over their heads.

Comparing her to a Billie Holiday is pretty ridiculous given the fact that she actually did contribute the vocal melodies to her songs.

I was just pointing you to an easy source. It’s well known that she doesn’t actually write anything. It’s been widely publicized for years in multiple places. It’s very easy to look up if you actually want to find out.

You could argue that. That the articulation of the playing has artistry. And there’s some merit to that, but in her case most of that is lost in production.

I know enough about vocal training. It’s not my thing really, but I am a studio engineer, so I know a bit. I can’t claim to be an expert but I can say I know that her vocals are heavily processed, even the love ones.

Just look at her Wikipedia page. There’s a whole section dedicated to controversy about her claiming writing credits.

The act of singing isn’t art. Voice is just an instrument. That’s like calling a trumpet an artist. Writing the vocal melody is the art form and she doesn’t do that. 

I don’t get the appeal. She’s probably the most overrated artist that’s over existed. She doesn’t write any of her songs and never has. And she has to ego to claim writing credits despite no real contributions to any of her songs. Calling her an artist is overly generous. She’s an okay singer I guess.

Where they went wrong on this legislation (from their intended result at least, since the whole thing is wrong) was specifically attacking insurance companies. This on it’s own will make the bill unworkable. The insurance companies will see to that.

It’s one thing to remove the books from the school library. It’s not justified, but it’s also not really causing any real world harm.

That assessment is complete nonsense. saying cancel culture is a scam or doesn’t exist is really only true is you deliberately narrow the scope of it to rich and powerful people who can bounce back easily from losing a contract or to one side of the political spectrum. And narrowing the focus of the terminology to…

You are flat out wrong. The article is talking about the sexual assaults reported in general in the Lyft report. 1800, of which, the report says 38% were committed by drivers, 10% by police, the reminder by passengers. That’s what the report that they are reporting on said. They are quoting the total figure including…

I can’t post a link to the absence of data for the US market. And it appears that other news outlets have provided more in depth analysis, including breaking down the fact that the majority of assaults reported were actually from passengers assaulting someone and 10% were from police assaulting someone, which kind of…

Actually, I dug around to see what I could find cause I was curious and there is no available data to compare it to in North America. There is data available for comparison in the UK and it’s actually worse in cabs based on that data.