I agree. I don't even really like Taylor, but I honestly don't even see how anyone could interpret a fun pop song about moving to New York as gentrification in music form. NYC has always been known as the "city of dreams". This is not new? I mean she wasnt talking about moving to Brooklyn or the Bronx????? The only…

I don't get the Jez hatred for this woman. Here's a young woman making a successful career for herself in the cutthroat music industry, with her own music and largely on her own terms. She doesn't pander to male sexual fantasies, she seems to be a good person (having done several things for people less fortunate). I…

Even her shout out to gay couples—"you can want who you want/boys and boys and girls and girls"—is pat and sort of tacitly privileged, though it will no doubt be lauded for its progressivism. (And, to be fair, 12-year-olds in conservative households need to hear that shit from her, truly—I will definitely give her…

Jesus Murphy, NY is not the center of the damn universe. It has its charms but is not the most captivating place on earth. Can we sing about other cities now? Seattle is beautiful. Fucking amazing donuts. Woodstock, Vermont is another gorgeous place with a great restaurant in a converted mill. NY is like your…

"Someone should tell Taylor Swift about stop-and-frisk, or poverty levels, or the effects of school budget cuts, or people of color being pushed out of the neighborhoods they have populated for decades because of condos and Ted Talks."

You're demanding an awful lot from a bubblegum pop singer.

"one of the most important rock bands in America" You can't be serious. Please tell me how/when/where Sleater-Kinney influenced other bands or the genre(s) as awhole. If you're looking for influential bands fronted by and/or a complete personnel of women I'd consider Neneh Cherry, Exene Cervanka, Nona Hendryx, Laurie…

Awwww... Thanks, Uber, I needed some warm fuzzies today!

I never understand why people hate it!

Don't mess with Angela and her Project Runway. She and Heidi are like this.

Eyyy Mark- I appreciate the "warning" within the article prior to quoting the horrible things people online are saying about Mack. That shows a kind of awareness that such content (verbal abuse, bullying) may be triggering for the reader and is not to be exploited…

Never understood men who you know watch porn, and would totally fuck a porn star thinking that being in porn is somehow disgusting.

"most vitriolic case of unexamined privilege"

I really wish this preemptive "cue X in 3...2.." meme would die. It's so worn out.

As a longtime bleeding heart liberal, this article is so unbelivably self-serving and disingenuous.

Seriously. These images of children and dying and medical interventions and "invisible suffering" are not convenient metaphors for some writer, comfortable in her desk chair, to craft some moralistic allegory: they are the realities of this disease, of how it is handled in the US/Europe vs. Africa, of how medicine has…

A co-worker and i were just talking about this. about how this somehow be tied into race. needless to say, just as predicted its being painted as a "brown people problem." Race: the most destructive and decisive imaginary belief.

Jesus Fucking Christ. Leave it to Gawker media to find a racist lining in the Ebola outbreak. Kudos, you morally relativistic fuckfaces!

I'm sorry, but the gloves piss me off. I get so annoyed by collectors. For example, every time I see a game sealed in its original box and sealed another 2-3 times with a card rating its quality, I want to buy it just so I can break it open and PLAY it. And record it. And post it on YouTube just for the lulz and…

The "real" Egyptians weren't one color. The 25th dynasty was Nubian, but the dynasties that preceded it and the dynasties to follow were different ethnicities. The earlier Egyptian ruling class were what we would consider middle eastern, and the later ruling classes were more Mediterranean with the Ptolemys being…