I have a friend who knows the GB crew. Everything I know about Ed points to him being a bit of a piece of work, and very prone to exaggeration and getting carried away with shit. (See: the NY Mag article where he basically said that GB doesn’t make enough to get health insurance, which is just...not true.)
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See, that’s my truth. I take dance classes of all sorts on whimsical rotations (i.e., I just finished a round of belly dancing, and now I’m going to do some more salsa because african dance is at the wrong time for me. And then there’s that zumba class I sometimes go to. . . which I know is ridiculous, but it’s fun!).
Thank you. I don’t care who it is. If they are dancing they should be having fun and not caring what they look like. I get down like a fool but I love it. I’m taking a hip-hop class this summer that will be an unmitigated disaster and could not give a fuck how dumb I look.
Man, I’m gonna be in the minority here, but I thought the video was cute. They look like they’re having fun. I know I look like a jackass when I’m dancing. Except I have rhythm and I make it look good lololol. B)
I think this is a pretty classy move that doesn’t deserve snark.
After the Ryan Adams bullshit, I have decided I am not listening to any more male covers of 1989. If a woman wants to cover her shit, fine, but these dudes trying to act like they’re improving upon her shit or legitimizing it (acid trip or no) can go to hell. I will take my Taylor straight up, no ice, and make it a…
... I mean, his “call-out” was also part of the bit. It’s not a real objection, it’s scripted.
As a POC I don’t disagree with anything he said. At that point in time shit was like it was now but like 50 times worse. Black Community leaders endorsed this bill. HELL BERNIE SANDERS ENDORSED THIS BILL with his sorry not sorry reasons. And the black community does have some onus to take on here. Hindsight is 20/20.…
Grasping at straws here. Hipsters aren’t the only people who see themselves as culinary adventurers (cf. Anthony Bourdain, Andrew Zimmern), and Trillin is a fucking 80 year old who has experienced more generations worth of cool white people trying to gain cool points through food. The poem clearly reads as satire, but…
Wait, you want the poem to fit in a fucking moral coda about how the speaker of the poem is in the wrong and has learned his lesson about cultural/culinary appropriation?
No, the judge said she acted unreasonably when she rejected Sony’s offer to work with other producers (which was Sony’s original offer some time ago).
No but seriously how about expecting readers to approach texts with more intelligence and skepticism instead of asking writers to dumb themselves down to readers who can’t understand simple literary concepts like irony and the distance between the author and the speaker?
I’d share your concern, but as an Irish-American, I’m still reeling from Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal, so I can’t be of any help.
I normally enjoy reading Angry Asian Man, but I don't feel like he understood who the butt of the joke of that poem is supposed to be. When I first read that poem I was 95% certain it was mocking the practice of white urbanites/hipster/foodie types Columbusing ethnic cuisines to feel culturally superior. I feel like…
I totally agree. Of course, the piece could be meta and satirizing the type of person that would woefully misread something in an unthinkingly PC way, totally missing the point. But since it’s Jezebel, I’m guessing it’s not doing that. The poem pretty clearly has very little to do with China and a lot to do with…
Like most sixth graders, the author of this report fails to consider that the author and speaker are not necessarily the same person and that the author might be using the poem to critique the speaker’s perspective.
This article might benefit from differentiating between Orthodox and Ultra-Orthodox Judaism.
This article is about me. About a fight I had with her husband. Started by him. My mental illness and recovery from addiction have nothing to do with it. To add it to this story was nothing more than a cheap shot, which she cloaked in the guise of it being alright because she, too, suffers, as she mentioned in this…
Why even allow comments if you have so low an opinion of your commenters? I see this attitude a lot at Jezebel and I honestly don’t get it at all. If you don’t like the fact that there’s a community in a site that promotes itself as a community (and, I’m certain, doesn’t allow paid writers to simply turn off all…