I observe this cycle with people I know: chase toxic masculinity; get burned; re-evalute attraction, specifically, what people should find attractive about themselves; chase toxic masculinity . . . .

Is that pretty standard in dating? I don’t exactly see much variance away from that in any of the dating people I know.

What?

About a year ago, there was an interview with an author here who was expressly against empowerment feminism and pro-capitalist feminism, and any support for her position was decried as a ghastly affront to decency and whatever kind of [pop] feminism Jezebel is supposed to be about.

“Wolitzer avoids overthinking the capitalistic underpinnings of Loci’s message by gesturing at it: Loci’s feminism is empowerment feminism, buffed to an expensive, soft-focus sheen. It’s the pop feminism of Men Explain Things to Me, which unwittingly spawned the rise of #mansplaining and pioneered the kind of softball…

Can we just rename pop music to “chasing toxic masculinity?”

Are you stupid?

Has it ever struck you or any of your fellow writers that your coverage of Taylor Swift shows a profound deficiency in understanding pop performers?

Soviet Russia was garbage and acted within the interests of the elite. That’s irrelevant to the widespread suffering within and exported by capitalist states whose only interests are to support the wealthy.

You are officially stupid.

You seem to be very unfamiliar with that is happening in the US and how capitalism has failed globally.

Tell us all about how well capitalism is working around the world and in the US.

Golly, another instance of vapid, generic, and poorly written lyrics becoming controversial. I wonder what drives all of this?

The concept of cultural appropriation as it is used in popular conversations (like on Jezebel or any related blogs on this website) is in need of massive development. People here don’t know how to talk about pop-culture and how it is created, absolutely refusing to touch how it works within capitalism.

Neither of them wrote those songs.

These people don’t write their own music. Neither do the performers you’re setting them against. Check the credits.

There problem with your argument is that you place the performer as the genesis of the art when they are only being directed with material sourced by a team that is often not black. You have to pretend that the cultural artifacts you are examining are anything but mass produced for maximum profit. The people creating…

Is there anything really original in either of them though? Like, how much of this isn’t done daily by people just hanging around and dorking off to kill time?

I know you all have about as deep a pulse on anything that is cool as much as a vampire has a heartbeat, but this bickering within pop culture about who originated very basic concepts is stupid. Dancing sucks. Your ideas suck. You all suck.

What dance moves in any of these awful pop music vids aren’t the same?