LOL the entire original post is about how this is, very explicitly, her opinion. And recognizes that the committee clearly doesn’t have to reflect that, because it didn’t.

Dude, it’s fine if you didn’t interpret his words the way other people did, but don’t flip this around into everybody “ignoring what you said.”

See also: sexists, racists, homophobes...basically anybody most other people agree are thinking/doing/saying things that aren’t OK.

Guys don’t get to decide whether or not the results of holding themselves to obscenely low standards are offensive or contribute to broader cultural attitudes about sexual assault. Him thinking it’s a joke isn’t the most important factor in whether or not it’s received as one by the people he’s joking about.

That still has nothing to do with being “inferior,” in the context it was clearly intended in this article.

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As were the majority of the English kids I studied with in London, just with different accents. Is this one of those situations where the fact that we were “Europe” magically renders them sophisticated and morally superior anyway?

Eh, I understand that people often *feel* this way, but it’s kind of like a wealthy person complaining about how high their rent is in a neighborhood nobody else can afford, as if it’s simply choosing different options from an equal beginning that landed everyone where they are.

Something being extremely popular isn’t the only reason to pay attention to it. Nobody who is more measurably successful than Solange has released an album like this one, so if we didn’t talk about hers, we wouldn’t talk about music with this particular message at all. That message is clearly insignificant to you, but…

And I get it, too—you’re racist. The fact that you repeatedly refuse to acknowledge that what Kara wrote in this article is sociologically significant, and therefore relevant in and of itself (and a terrible place to whine about whoever’s on top of the Billboard pop charts this week), speaks volumes.

That’s nice. It’s not right, in that there are plenty of artists who like her and have said so, and that whether vast swaths of the public like something isn’t the only kind of “musical relevance” (and could be argued, especially in the context of an album with a controversial subject, to be an obviously problematic…

What gives you the impression that “black culture” isn’t PART of America? And what about wanting to improve America (by making it a better place for more of its people to exsit in) is a rejection of it?

She’s not “musically irrelevant” just because she’s irrelevant to you.

And of course this is the day Cavani scores a brace.