I agree. I think that this doesn't bother me because it was included as a part of dance styles in general - she recognized that hip-hop is a legitimate dance style and gave it no more disdain than any of the other ones. And if the point was that she doesn't fit in there, then is she really appropriating?

Oh, and this video has quite a few POC in it. Like I said earlier I'm a POC myself so I think I always notice when pop music videos are all/99% white (almost all the time unless the artist isn't white) and this one has much more racial inclusion in ALL the styles of dancing. I'm the first to admit I'm a biased TSwift…

I am pretty certain there were white women in the mix anyway. I thought it was a cute song, throwaway pop, sure, but still cute. She represented all kinds of dance, didn't seem to be "appropriating" any of it, but rather was just having fun traveling through all the styles. She clearly wasn't in earnest as a hip hop…

I'm all for pointing out cultural appropriation and calling out those who perpetrate it, but I fail to feel outrage over this video. I mean at least Taylor thinks that it's a dance equivalent to ballet and interpretive instead of going, "eww black girls shaking their asses, yuck". And if all the dancers were white,…

When will you be posting the illustrations of what Disney princess pussies look like?

If he's colored

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Get it girls!

She can be equally confident in her talent and in her looks. Letting the world see her breasts doesn't mean she doesn't respect herself or her talent. That's very old-fashioned and I want to say rooted in misogyny. Besides, her talent is well-established. It's not like she's a rising star, she already has her place in…

Oh god.

Did Marky Mark seem desperate for attention when he dropped trou on stage? Or was he just hot and empowered and into himself? How about, as I mentioned on another comment, shirtless Mick Jaggar with his tight, low-slung pants? Why is it only "desperate" when women do it?

Seeing the slip under her dress in that gif, now I'm wondering how see-through that dress was up close? Maybe it was designed to only be see-through with stage light/flashbulbs? Which is even more genius.

I dunno. Since when has "talent" mattered in pop culture? Older folk like to forget that Mick Jagger can't sing worth shit, yet they love to get on Miley's case for her supposed lack of talent. Heck, I grew up listening to the Sex Pistols and it was a point of pride that Johnny Rotten had no singing talent.

But Mike Peters, a Brooklyn father of a young daughter, spoke for dads and moms everywhere when he told me, "I think she looked slutty.''

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And as parents in the early 90's feared for the children raised in the anything-goes culture of Madonna and Murphy Brown.