No. Just no. There is nothing subjective about "slut." It's antagonistic and unnecessarily so. If that's not a hostile work environment I don't know what is. (Psst. I know what is).

I totally had a thing for the bad boy, the too cool kid, in high school. The guy who never amounted to anything. Jordan Catalano.

Taylor Swift says, "Rainbows, rainbows kittens. Old sweaters. My terms. Kittens rainbows old soft leather jacket. Give me your money now, I don't need it!"

What a time to be alive

I wonder if the album will be called 'The Conscious Uncoupling of the Elusive Chanteuse in the House of the Ethereal Butterflies'?

Taylor's new video would have been better if she had talked to this lady about bad dancing

He's basically Jordan from "My So-Called Life." If anything, he's a throwback to the hearthrobs of the mid-90s.

Did you really just attempt to teach a Jamaican about Jamaica?!

Those are wild questions when the person you're speaking to is American, and those things are a part of American, or western culture (not to mention international at this point). Why don't white people in America with Dutch ancestry wear those wooden shoes, why don't white men in America with Scottish ancestry wear…

"western African heritage"? Um, no. I'm a black American, born and raised, of Jamaican descent. None of your questions prove that cultural appropriation is not real. "Blue jeans" is not part of one culture. Neither are weaves/hair extensions and marriage...

Agreed. And the twerking bits wer pretty obviously aimed as mockery of Cyrus.

I didn't need to acknowledge that question (without a question mark) because there is no culture that "tailored dresses and shoes" belongs to. And no I wouldn't want Miley's opinion because she's an idiot, but if she showed interest in Ferguson, I would gain a little respect for her.

I disagree with everything you just said. Cultural appropriation isn't simply "borrowing" from other cultures. When people talk about Miley Cyrus and her instances of cultural appropriation, they're talking about the fact that she uses aspects of black culture for her monetary gain. She may supposedly enjoy being…

Agreed, I think they tried pretty hard to find people of all colors to represent each genre/style. I could have done without the scene of the black woman's ass twerking, though. Seemed gratuitous.

Oh, and this video has quite a few POC in it. Like I said earlier I'm a POC myself so I think I always notice when pop music videos are all/99% white (almost all the time unless the artist isn't white) and this one has much more racial inclusion in ALL the styles of dancing. I'm the first to admit I'm a biased TSwift…

Thank you for this! I think this music video was terrible because it was cheesy and just after school-special-y, but I didn't get the 'appropriation' outrage either, which I knew Jez and some other sites would jump on ASAP. And I'm a POC as well, FWIW.

No white dancers!

I am pretty certain there were white women in the mix anyway. I thought it was a cute song, throwaway pop, sure, but still cute. She represented all kinds of dance, didn't seem to be "appropriating" any of it, but rather was just having fun traveling through all the styles. She clearly wasn't in earnest as a hip hop…

I'm all for pointing out cultural appropriation and calling out those who perpetrate it, but I fail to feel outrage over this video. I mean at least Taylor thinks that it's a dance equivalent to ballet and interpretive instead of going, "eww black girls shaking their asses, yuck". And if all the dancers were white,…

I mean, nobody other than someone's doctor should be telling anyone what to do RE his/her meds, and if they do so because of a movie, not only are they assholes but they're also stupid. I personally appreciated this because it reminded me of how I felt on my meds (though I also didn't "just stop" taking them, that was…