why are you so protective of the term 'twerk'? who really gives a shit?
a) you're at a 7, and this deserves a 2 response at best
First of all, "Columbused" strikes me as kind of offensive, sort of like a failed Louis C.K. joke where he tried to go for a touchy subject and it just fell flat.
I think it's worth pointing out that people (perhaps even most people) have always made fun of the class of people who think having whatever is the current conspicuously consumptive luxury good of the day is emblematic of good taste.
$5 coffees and $200 Ugg boots used to be enviable, and now they're not.
Can you point me to the list of words/phrases I *am* allowed to use? While I wait for the list, I'll just speak in olde thyme talk(e), hence.
My question is how do black people who grew up in "white" neighborhoods learn phrases like this or "stay woke" or any of the other phrases it's only okay for black bloggers to use? Are they born with it? Is there a class? Is it like in 5th grade PE where the boys go play kickball while the girls learn about their…
Jez just picks certain targets and decides everything they do is wrong and in some way oppressive. Taylor's a big one, Gwyneth Paltrow gets it, Lena Dunham. And then they'll pick somebody who's basically famous for showing her ass on a reality show and act like she's a flawless pop culture goddess.
I don't get the Jez hatred for this woman. Here's a young woman making a successful career for herself in the cutthroat music industry, with her own music and largely on her own terms. She doesn't pander to male sexual fantasies, she seems to be a good person (having done several things for people less fortunate). I…
I suppose Katy Perry's "California Gurls" should have discussed water shortages, migrant farm worker's rights, rising rent and gentrification, and state budget shortfalls.
That's absolutely fair. But there's a big difference between "this song she wrote addresses x topics" conversations and "this song she wrote isn't about a completely different topic." The latter—this piece—is just nonsensical as "criticism."
"Someone should tell Taylor Swift about stop-and-frisk, or poverty levels, or the effects of school budget cuts, or people of color being pushed out of the neighborhoods they have populated for decades because of condos and Ted Talks."
You're demanding an awful lot from a bubblegum pop singer.
First of all, that isn't true. Men are over-represented as serial killers, but white men are not. Second of all, you should read-up on the subject before talking about it.
Statistically, serial killers almost always kill within their own race. You can be as snarky as you want, but that is a fact.
i think he's black. imagine how many non-white serial killers are out there and how many are getting away due to racism and misogynoir.
I went to graduate school with a woman who lived on tribal land. She told some stories that would shock you. The elders there have their own sets of laws that are not publicized. It's pretty scary stuff.
OK. I get that this Kara Brown IS LIKE TOTALLY BROWN. But this bitch ain't brown like me. I'm Latina/Black/Queer/etc.
She is black. He's confirmed that forever ago and it was discussed all over Jezebel, because that's how *I* found out about it. It's like they don't pay attention to their own site or something.
But immediately after the cover came out and the people riled up, he came out and said that one of the women was black and was a friend of his that he'd worked with before or something to that extent. How did you miss that?