I guess the question is "How can white people be supportive of the issue without seeming to demean or take over the issue? " If white people don't talk talk about what they do in the situation, then the narrative is that white people are ignoring the issue (which so many do). If white people talk about the issue,…

I find most of this essay very powerful. One area I wonder about is where you think good white people feel like they should be rewarded - what should good white people do then? Not delete trolls? Not be outraged? Keep the outrage to themselves? I understand the frustration of people seemingly wanting to be…

Sneaking suspicion that most of the money made from this album goes to them as well.

I feel like you guys are afraid to criticize her more "problematic" aspects because she's a "POC," and just give her a pass, where others are taken to task. It's a little patronizing in itself.

Actually, just like Beyonce's album, this is produced almost entirely by men. But...go women! Strong! Boss! Independent!

I feel like this author makes her music reviews less about the song/album itself and more about showing the reader how much she (thinks she) knows about music in general.

No. It's somebody desperately trying to find meaning in yet another rap album that has very little to say.

it would be nice to have a female rapper in the limelight who isn't all about her sexuality and isn't offering her ass on a platter for male desire. Nicki presents herself and her dancers and sexual objects. She is the furthest thing from a feminist. Ugh.

I'm perplexed by this comment. She isn't wrong.

Phew. I worried there wouldn't a post that casually insults Taylor Swift today. Was wondering where it was.

"Grohl has shown himself increasingly to be not much more than a rock and roll formalist, the type of man who is a dying breed: guitars and drums subsume all other instruments, where the riff is king and the rock blocks are fully cocked."

This whole article is so wrong and off-base about so many things I don't even know where to begin. But this might be the stupidest part: "Why, on the LA episode, is there a lengthy interlude about the desert outside the city because Queens of the Stone Age once recorded there, but can't even make a gesture towards…

Ugh. This is why there's no point in producing anything anymore unless it's all inclusive. It's David Grohl's option to do as he pleases, not please everyone with what he does.

Kara, I know you're just being funny and not totally serious and using Tay Tay as a way to highlight something that's been talked about around here for awhile, White people with zero Black friends. I love you and this is just a little constructive criticism: Don't. Do. This. Again.

I have very mixed feelings about his whole role in this. On one hand, yes a 17 year old is nearly an adult and is perfectly capable of knowing that child porn is VERY VERY NOT OKAY. But on the other it seems quite obvious that he was groomed, corrupted, and taken advantage of by this other man. He is still a victim of…

You can't call 17 year old Trayvon Martin a child and then in the same breath call this guy a 17 year old "man".

So someone apologizes for making a racist remark with an actual apology instead of the typical non-apology bullshit we see, and he makes something of a gesture to help an organization that promotes diversity, and your response is that he can take it and shove it?

isn't this Banks girl the one who picks Twitter fights with everyone to get attention? And didnt it take her forever to release any actual music?

Just want to throw it out there, but I wish there were more models out there that were a size 8. As a size 8 myself I feel like all models are either the standard size 00-2 or 12+.

I pointed this out when this story was posted on Groupthink, but discussions about models and size-ism here tend to be well-intentioned, but usually fucked up. When we demand the the fashion industry represent larger women, we (who claim to care about humanizing women and promoting healthy and realistic attitudes…