This. Let’s not forget that in addition to valid, harmless criticism, a lot of these people also get lots of misogynistic abuse and all kinds of violating, vile shot thrown their way, on top of any mental health issues they have to deal with. There should be room for sensitivity.

Yep I was just reading about Munn & expected it to be mentioned here as well.

“It is an absurd take to think that only musicians can critique music.”

ATTN: PEOPLE IN THE PUBLIC REALM FROM ME, A PLEB,

If the press calls you out on genuinely bad behavior, the negativity isn’t coming from the people that call you out on your shit, it started with you! Be the change you claim to desire: own your own mistakes, learn from them, and move on with your life!

For musicians to complain that only those who write and perform music should be “allowed” to review it is ridiculous. For whom are they writing their music? Other musicians? No, they write and perform for an audience. To suggest that no one but their peers have a right to criticize them misses the entire point of…

Lizzo’s trajectory on this makes the most sense to me. First of all, she’s been around for a while but this level of national attention is new to her. She isn’t as nuanced as someone like Ariana or Justin should be, having grown up navigating mega fame and the media machine.

Aside from that, though, and honestly my…

Yeah I wrote several novels twenty yrs ago...sadly some still listed on Amazon, iffy reviews and all lol. Not that there were many reviews :) but I never look at them anymore. I always review books on Amazon honestly...and so far, no deletions :)

Add Olivia Munn coming for the Fug Girls to the list. Sure, Olivia, having some fashion bloggers write that your outfit is ugly is the same thing as being a high school student and having your male classmates rank your looks.

Only dead people should write obituaries.

I couldn’t agree more. My husband is a beardo and when he shaves (VERY RARELY b/c of my reaction, lol) to me, he just looks like an infant head on a man’s body. Not sexy.

This weirds me out in the same way as when my dad shaved his off (once) when I was a teen. It had been there my whole life, so its absence was jarring. Same with Momoa, he’s had one for as long as I’ve been paying attention (Stargate Atlantis). I’m sure it will be less jarring after a while. My personal preference was…

My husband has had a full, luscious beard for over twenty years. It was one of the things about him that first caught my attention. aka “Wow, look at that hunky guy and that fucking incredible beard!” It’s gone through various phases, sometimes on the shorter side, sometimes long, but always remarkably full. Strangers…

Alex Trebek very briefly had a beard recently, and when he shaved it he broke my heart.

Men, if Nature gives you the wherewithal to grow a magnificent beard, who are you to argue?

What rhetoric? Are you fucking kidding? She’s pointing out basic objective facts and people are threatening to kill her. Who the fuck ungreyed you?

YES. I’m am so ready for this, it’s not even funny. Beychella was amazing and growing up around a well-known HBCU (FAMU) made me appreciate it even more. 

As someone who went to an HBCU, I really did lose my shit re: Beyonce’s Coachella performance. It was just so so good.

YASSSSS GIVE US THE NEW ALBUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’d point out that you’re misreading parts of the review (and, it appears, whatever aspect of my politics I’ve brought to it), but I can’t get over the fact that you think Octavia Spencer is in this movie.

I’m pretty sure Dems have never undermined our Democracy like the current GOP has. At least in modern history.