Holy shit this article is fucked up beyond recognition.
Here's the songs Wikipedia article:
I really resent all this jumping down Macklemore's throat for a song that's addressing intolerance done by straight people, pointing out how wrong it is, to that very audience. Let's face it, plenty of rappers have spoken about gay rights, but I can guarantee a Top 40 station has never played their songs.
I'm an adult, and I'm all nuanced about the songs I listen to, but I know a lot of teenagers. I know about 10 teenage boys who LOVE Macklemore, and are now championing LGBTQ rights as a result. In fact, one teen boy I know came out to his friends after watching them change their anti-gay views as a result of that…
The message I get from this is that if you're a fairly privileged straight white dude, you aren't allowed to champion any causes ever, because "you just don't get it!" This is so dumb, and is pretty much the problem with the world, that we assume people should only care about things that hurt them directly, because…
You know why I like this song? Because it's popular. Because the other day, I heard my 8 year old girl singing Mary Lambert's part without bothering to ask why a woman would be singing romantically about another woman. That's why I like this song and it's why I changed my mind about Macklemore. I saw the video on this…
When I first heard about the backlash against Macklemore for writing an explicitly pro-LGBT anthem my eyes rolled so hard they almost fell out of their sockets.
"Big is beautiful" is not an exclusionary phrase. "Real women have curves" is an exclusionary phrase. One celebrates being big (good, accurate), the other implies that only those with curves are real women (bad, inaccurate). The latter puts down others by excluding them from being seen as "real women" and is merely…
I think that "thin-shaming" isn't quite in the same box as misandry and reverse-racism, because it's still a situation where women's bodies are turned into objects to be judged and mocked. And all women have to deal with some flavour of this shit, some sort of attack on their size, shape, femininity, desirability,…
I have the same reactions when one of my guy friends says this to me. "I didn't really believe in feminism until I had a daughter!"
You people are treading dangerous ground. People have the right to know that if the babies are startled beforehand it makes the meat taste gamey because of the hormones released. Especially with ugly babies: they are by nature wary and paranoid. Also, all the celebrity chefs on the baby-toddler cooking networks will…
She needs to check her hair privilege.
It's all fun and games until there's another Ice Town disaster.
I don't think his jokes about vaginas (at least none that I've heard) shame the body part or the person attached. They're more of just an acknowledgment that genitals are inherently funny.
Don't vagina-shame those of us with two or more vaginas! I call for an end to this single-vagina hate speech. Shame on you!