There's lots in this piece I find problematic. As has been acknowledged ad nauseum, it's Grohl's personal* reflections on his *personal* influences. It's one thing to point out that Grohl's tastes have been heavily influenced by men (in a genre which is almost entirely male), but it's a whole other thing entirely to…

This makes me want to plug in my N64 and fire up Virtual Pro Wrestling 2....best wrestling game ever.

That's kinda my point though, I don't think that they would be. And again, I'm not disputing the existence or harmfulness of cultural appropriation, only saying that there's an element of subjectivity to it.

Similarly, Kevin Smith has talked a lot about dealing with conservative Christian protestors during the…

I'm not saying that cultural appropriation doesn't exist, or isn't problematic; but, like nobody accuses the Wu Tang Clan of cultural appropriation. Their influence was, and this is no secret, Kung Fu movies, giving them a cartoonish view of East Asian culture (in much the same way a lot of white Americans seem to…

It's actually not true that hats were never worn indoors. There were certain 'rules' about when and where one might be required to take off their hat, but there was never a blanket prohibition on hats indoors.