I can do without the bulky, neon colored, nylon-and plastic ridiculousness we had the first time round this trend, but I do like the sleeker, leather or other high quality fabric version that are around recently. They are ever so convenient and the well made ones do look nice.

If you really think that overweight men are “one of the last safe places to mock and ridicule,” you’ve never spent any time listening to people of colour, queer and trans people, people with disabilities, women, and especially people who fall into multiples of those categories with the addition of fatness.

Marie Antoinette was a mixed bag, but tales of her profligacy are overblown. Usually the king’s official mistress was the go-to public scapegoat for excess spending, but Louis XVI was basically asexual and had no mistress, and so that blame was shifted to the queen. Antoinette was indeed a vapid fashion plate, but her…

Um...I don’t think anyone was comparing his weight. Just how amazingly tall he is. And most people are going to look small to someone his height.

She was careless with a WOC’s feelings, because she didn’t believe she needed to take care, and she was trying to perpetuate a stereotype as well as have a scapegoat.

Yeah, I’m baffled at the “oh checking quotes isn’t really protocol” - uh - I’ve read plenty of nonfiction, intended for popular consumption (versus intended for the academic community) and they’ve all had extensive citations regarding source material and quoted authors/interviews.

Ya’ know *come closer*...it’s not always about YOU!

LOL, ok champ 👍🏼

There’s a difference between a conversation and a quote. The irresponsibility here is mind-boggling - not just from an ethical standpoint but a CYA standpoint. I always record people whenever possible if I’m getting a quote. If I want a quote based on a conversation we had, I email them and specifically get it in…

Hocus had a sheaf of insights on this last night.

Are you really arguing that white women have it harder than women of color? Let me go get you that participation trophy from the oppression olympics.

Why is the word “exploitation” in quotes in this post’s title? That implies that Aminatou was not exploited as the Angry Black Woman stereotype … which implication also contradicts the rest of your title. However – as we discussed last night at some length — she was exploited as that stereotype (not…

did you see that vulture article on like the guide to soundcloud rappers? chrissle and fury were talking about it on the latest ep of the read. they’re all like 17 and making questionable choices. i’m not so sure about the tone of this article but it’s there: http://www.vulture.com/2018/04/2018-soundcloud-rappers-guide…

I just want to add: fuck Micheal Bewblay.

Since I was 7 years old and discovered TLC/Left Eye, I have been dying for more female rappers and while over the last year or so I have noticed an uptick in female rap songs, it still is very rare for any of them to break out and get the airplay that these male rappers are getting. I don’t get it. This is literally…

This right here. The documentary 20 Feet from Stardom talks about all the amazing back up singers from the 50s, 60s, and 70s who worked on major hits. All of them, black women, tried to break out on their own but were told that they couldn’t do a solo album or solo promotions because of Aretha Franklin’s success.

Its lazy rap. The same tired ass trap beat the same bored af sounding voice, played out on every single song.

See this part of her appeal. I call her wise. She’s telling herself that she needs to enjoy all the good things about being pregnant, to cherish this moment. She’s saying that she doesn’t need to waste time on beefing with different women rappers, she’s not engaging in the process that women rappers have to play to…

More so than any other time I can think of, SO MANY (male) rappers sound the EXACT same. They all have a Travis Scott-type sound, they all have that Gucci Mane flow. Cardi is correct, though it’s hilarious that she’s sort of unintentionally subtweeting her fiance.

Dead on, she doesn’t look or sound like any other female rapper that gets press. Every male rapper coming out these days has a name that starts with lil and has the same rhythm to their lyrics as everybody else.