Yes, yes, I agree that “Taylor Swift is just invoking feminism here to advance her own interests” is very boring and cliched and often advanced in bad faith; I’m so aware of it I almost didn’t say anything and regret doing so!

After sitting in many board meetings personally (part of my job), and after the garbage that was done to people like Ke$sha, Kelly Clarkson, JoJo, and countless others, I am never on the side of the record label, and am never inclined to believe whatever they put out. It doesn’t matter if you don’t like Taylor…

I think it’s time for Taylor Swift to change her name to TAFKATS which would be amazing appropriate if she also used this as a symbol:

I assumed the other was Scott Borchetta, who will continue to run Big Machine and who is part of the reason Swift didn’t want to re-sign with them.

I’m sure this situation sucks for her and the music industry has long been exploitive in this way, but most artists don’t own their masters and she had a chance to negotiate for them (and probably frankly could have gotten involved with some other people to buy Big Machine). That’s more than most artists get. Her…

Revenge porn is a prosecutable offense but Kanye’s Famous video isn’t revenge porn. All of the bodies in that video are synthetic (I believe they were wax?) approximations of the people they were meant to represent.

It isn’t really revenge porn by any legal definition. Kanye used look-alikes in the music video for “Famous.” One of Taylor’s fans called it revenge porn and she saw the post.

It has been interesting and somewhat telling to me, how many prominent female artists unfollowed Scooter Braun on Instagram after Taylor's Tumblr post dropped. 

I was a kid when this aired, but my brother, who is 5 years older, watched the show. I watched it with him because I was 9 and he was 14 and bossy. Little did I know at the time that he was closeted and probably getting something different out of the show than I was. I still remember Pedro and Sean’s commitment…

Yeah, I watched this series as a sophomore in college. And yeah, Pedro Zamora blew all of my Baptist conditioning apart. He made me want to meet more people who weren’t like me. I dunno. It’s maybe silly to give it so much weight, but maybe that show and especially that person helped to change me at a time I needed to…

I knew they edited that shit with Puck. A couple of my friends who I bummed around with in LA and I watched that shit and every time there was crap on Puck we all agreed “There is soooo much more.”

I was an actual toddler when this came out, but I read Judd Winick’s Pedro and Me in middle school. It was an incredible and crucial reading experience at the time; in a way, Pedro in the comic had the same impact on me that he did on viewers of the show. He was the first gay person I’d ever encounter in media who was…

Dated my ass. Needing to keep one's fingers out of the communal peanut butter is timeless. Puck.

I just caught my 3 year old sticking her finger in the peanut butter the other day and I yelled “Who do you think you are? Puck!!?” My husband rolled his eyes and told me that was a really dated reference, so I am especially happy to see this article today :)

Haha!  Yes!  And he hated Judd because Judd got cast in his place.

The effect that Pedro had on this 14 year old gay kid from Appalachia, and really importantly, the effect he had on my group of friends, can’t be overstated. He started conversations I'd never have had, period. 

You know, I know folks talk about Pedro and the presentation of his sexuality in the mainstream was huge - and it is - but as a Latino, who graduated HS that summer getting ready to attend Harvard that fall, he was the first real representation that no matter all the racism I faced, the nastiness of people telling me…

Another weirdly 90s thing about this show is that the author Dave Eggers auditioned for Real World San Francisco and didn’t make the cut.

This season of Real World was probably the last time I watched a Reality TV show and actually cared about the people in it and it’s probably the last season of any Reality TV show that I saw through to the end.

That was a great season. I’d say the first three were great... New York, SF and LA. It was drama but it was also a learning opportunity. Then it was down hill.