“Laid” by James just came on Spotify so I’m going to start a thread of songs about folks who “mess around with gender roles.” I’m white, and these are songs that white-dominant culture sang along and celebrated for decades, but which white-dominant would throw a shitfit about today. I mean a week of Fox programming, a segment on Bill Maher, and three NYT Opinion pieces.
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For starters: Laid, by James, about a man in a relationship w/a terrifying woman: Maher’s down with kinky lyrics, but says it’s pathetic to see a man bullied by his #woke partner. Fox takes the mention of a therapist to argue “even Hollyweird liberals admit: mental disorders follow from transgenderism” despite the fact that the band’s English, the lyrics don’t deal with trans people, and the term “transgenderism” is some trolling bullshit. David Brooks would misquote the song as “James” by Laid.
Dan Froomkin/presswatchers.org"Any serious reporter should spit at the mention of @axios," writes @CharlesPPierce, "a creepy little band of Beltway-drunk dilettantes who don't have the courage God gave the average assistant night city editor at a 30,000-circulation daily." https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a43337271/axios-ben-montgomery-desantis/
@jayrosen_nyu what do you make of Axios Tampa firing its reporter for sending a pushback email to a DeSantis press release? Seems like a sign that Axios wants its Locals to be toothless
The NY Times opinion page has some brilliant folks but they can’t overcome the damage the morons do. Shut the whole thing down and invest the money on reporting or some new dumb idea, but shut it down
With the death of the magazine I think journalists in Generation X or younger are bereft of any influential writing to call our own. Because of the flexibility of the internet, we just spend our careers experimenting with forms. Podcasts, explainers, YouTube essays, Semaforms, blog screeds, Buzzfeed quizzes, tiktoks, data interactives, whatever’s next. We’re more like people trying to stay relevant in Hollywood than people honing a craft.
Dan GillmorThe birdsite's former management resisted censorship by foreign dictators, but under Musk India's right-wing regime gets yessir-yessir cooperation: https://theintercept.com/2023/01/24/twitter-elon-musk-modi-india-bbc/
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Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride, but it’s about him discovering guns of a steadily increasing capacity for destruction