I hear you, there are certainly more needy targets for sympathy. But at the same time, no matter who you are, it’s never a fun thing to have someone dismiss you and be nasty about the things you care about and that define you.

Ugh. He’s like those people playing Trivial Pursuit that have to smugly announce the answer before turning the card over and reading the answer, so everyone knows they knew. (Er, like me. oh god.)

Heh, yeah, a good chunk of the quotes Rich highlighted had me thinking, uh, and what is your beef here? To be fair, he did acknowledge that later in the article. And there’s a real nastiness in the tone of the quotes proffered so I guess if you’re a big Madonna fan, you might be a little defensive reading this stuff.

OMG, no.

Trebek is a menace!

Love the sub-conscious joke form.

Hello from a fellow K-town ex-pat. Did you go home for the final Hip show party at Market Square?

I also don’t understand why it took so long for Jez to post a blog about this. I emailed them on Thursday in case the tons of coverage in Canadian media hadn’t leaked into anybody’s social feeds in the US. I was pretty disappointed not to see an article on Thursday AND Friday about it. Oh well I guess some pretty…

I admire your passion, if not your taste in music.

It was implied. (By watching the video.)

Hard work is the new silicone! ;)

pure garbage

Srsly. I don’t get the appeal at all. Maybe it’s fun to watch plastic chicks twerk in front of plastic dudes while playing plastic music for SOME people, but I ain’t one of ‘em.

I don’t get it.

As a matter of fact I’ve been called homophobic 2 or 3 times on this thread! I realize tho, that the word “appropriation” isn’t right and some of the discussion from this thread helped me figure it out a little better. I didn’t articulate my point very well. I later said it was more the feeling of having the feminine…

oh my god I’ve seen that before but it was really worth watching again. I have tears.

Thanks for this. I think my comment pushed buttons that are painful for some people. It’s a drag to have people assume the worst about you, but I can only imagine the experiences people must have had to lead them to react so defensively and angrily. Having said that, I have learned from the interaction, and I’ll be…

Thanks for sharing that article. As a white cis hetero woman I have zero leg to stand on and you’re right about femininity being a loaded concept which others have rightly pointed out. For me it was not really articulated beyond more than a feeling of being lampooned somehow. Perhaps that was a proxy reaction for…

thanks, backatcha. Now that I know better, I will do better.

Thanks, sometimes I need that reminder.