I knew it would happen eventually, too, and I’m surprised it lasted this long. Their smugness about the relationship was grating.

Yeah that’s rational. Let’s just destroy an entire sport that yes, has many problems, but also enables many people - especially POC to get educational opportunities and scholarships they may not otherwise have gotten.

Me too! I was playing the “which celebrity are they talking about?” game based on the headline and that’s the first person who came to mind.

With that vacant, slack-jawed stare, the male Hadid looks like a young Matthew Perry.

Before you labeled the one young man as Hadid’s son, I legit thought that was Matthew Perry’s child.

I find her songs to be catchy and enjoyable pop music, though I haven’t bought any of it. Frankly, I find Jezebel’s steady stream of articles against her to be rather tiresome.

He actually called out people who claim they’re ok with kids listening to his music vs ‘black artists’. He flat out says that’s racist because he says just as many ‘bad words’ as any black artist out there, and that they are only ok with it because he’s white.

Well if you bother to read her wiki page, one of Trainor’s major musical influences is her Trinidadian uncle by marriage...and she has been writing and performing “soca music” since she was a kid. So the MTV article is sorta a hit piece with her ‘appropriation’ taken completely out of context.

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FWIW, her aunt and uncle, who featured very prominently in her life and early musical influences, are calypso performers from Trinidad, so maybe let’s not jump all over her as some dumb white girl stealing culture? She had a band with them when she was young, and was writing songs influenced by Soca when she was under…

Serious question, if you grew up with black music being part of your culture (like 85% of Americans), at what point does it stop being cultural appropriation... especially in the context of the American melting pot.

But the originators do benefit and profit. There are black artists who’ve created business empires from their music. There’s nothing wrong with what Trainor is doing. The people who made the music that inspired her aren’t living in poverty never enjoying any benefits from their creation. They enjoyed enormous…

I pretty much agree with everything in this article. I am a bit caught between the fact that cultural appropriation often ends in erasure, and the fact that encountering others and learning from / being inspired by them can be culturally good (as in, bringing different groups together, not as in profitable or even…

I think it’s really ignorant to say “white women borrowing the attitudes and style of black women as a tool for their own empowerment.” Black artists are hugely influential in popular music. Many whites, Latinos and Asians grow up listening to music made by black artists. It’s not “borrowing.” It’s influence. Black…

So, assuming I concede your point, which I do not, should Ms. Trainor have recorded her album and then vetted it against some panel of cultural experts to evaluate for how much she has appropriated?

I can’t with this bullshit - for so many, it’s not about women CEOs and their start-ups... for many, it’s about having a baby and trying not to lose your job over it, or scraping pennies together to get childcare. It’s institutional sexism and sexual harassment. It’s being paid less. It’s being complimented on your…

I think the book I’d like to read from Ivanka is, How To Survive Having A Gross Dad Who Thinks Your Fuckable. I’d wager that it would probably make her more money than anything else she might have going.

Man. I guess I really shouldn’t be surprised that the comments on this article are so different to the comments on last week’s Constance Wu/whitewashing article, but I am. Basically, it appears that “chill the fuck out” is the consensus here. The one movie of the year about a person with a serious disability — not…

The problem is that this character is not a real person. He is a fictional character with no agency; he can’t “choose” anything. The author has chosen to create a story where the ideal outcome is the disabled person dying. Its a problem when the only stories about disabled people we can imagine are ones where…