The vast majority of Beiber haterz would be bigger a-holes than him if they were 20yo millionaires with millions of adoring women at their beckoning. I can't recall a single song of his, but I can recall a bunch of grown-ass adults behaving like jealous whiny babies every time he gets mentioned in the news

However, I'd sooner swerve to avoid hitting a dog on the road than a child.

I should clarify my OP to say that my main issue is with relying on tv/radio for exposure to music. It's a passive mode of commercial delivery that conflates 'preferences' via formulaic song structure reinforced through repetition. It's the high-fructose of music...

Agreed, listening to local bands is a fantastic avenue for music exploration.

I agree. Your comment expresses a key point: if you explore a wide variety of music and it's various distribution channels (rather than just be fed via TV/radio), you can find the best of what all music has to offer, not just what is battered into your head via exposure and repetition. Also, pitchfork is pretty…

I listen to Drake and Kanye sometimes. It's not necessarily about the music, but the programmatic nature of its delivery systems.

radios are great...for NPR and other independent news radio!

because being a receptive audience that has its 'preferences' created through repetition is far worse than being a proactive curator of the music and culture and talent that is rampant in this digital era, the majority of which will never see/hear on radio/tv because it lacks a certain formulaic pop structure that…

honestly, if you listen to commercial rap (or any of the rubbish they push on radio or tv), you deserve what you get.

well I think that's just fantastic. my preferences have only deepened and expanded during my 20s, becoming inclusive of so much beauty. glad you've found your beauty!

seriously, it's about the shoes.

Oh absolutely. I see that bullshit all day long.

That's a fantastically progressive and evolved position. Go get you some!

Sure, but many of the other characters certainly do. And the genre at large definitely perpetuates the preference for violence-prone alpha-males.

I find that many women recant this preference when given the caveats of fat and bald men, or short and bald men, or the combination thereof.

Nothing like fantasy television to perpetuate the adoration for violent, oversized, aggressive warrior men. I mean, War Machines. But hey, preferences is preferences, particularly when it comes to the confounding and counterintuitive preference for big muscle-bound Neanderthals.

my point exactly. rape culture would still exist, but with a corresponding culture of prosecution.

Schools cannot and will not curb sexual assaults, but they do have the power and responsibility to install systems of accountability and prosecution.

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I'm not the right person to ask, as I think that a well planned suicide is a reasonable option.