Category: Politics
Flashdance Repackaged the American Dream to Women of Color at a Time When It Was Particularly Antithetical To Do So
With Joe Biden transcending into the “working man done good,” attention has been turned once again to the blue collar nature of Pennsylvania. A state [Read More…]
“OK Boomer” Becomes “You’re A-OK, Boomer”
It’s an irony in keeping with the incongruities of 2020. That after a particularly fiendish four years of the public bemoaning the fact that the [Read More…]
Lourdes Leon Makes The Most Gen Z Ad Yet–Which Is A Dichotomy Because Much of It Is Pulled From the Madonna (A Baby Boomer) Playbook
While “Lola” might be on the borderline of the generation we’ve come to call Z, her birth year of 1996 makes her amply attuned to [Read More…]
“The Junk Mail” Shows Why Everyone Suddenly So Concerned About USPS Now Shouldn’t Have Been A Dick To It Before
How ironic, looking back, that the founding of the Post Office (the only governmental agency specifically mentioned within the U.S. Constitution) should stem from the [Read More…]
Black Is King: A Consummation of Beyoncé’s Previous Visual Albums
As someone who invented the concept of the surprise album drop (sorry Taylor) and the visual accompaniment that goes with it, Beyoncé altered music history [Read More…]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez & Catalyzing Not Only the End of the “Wife and Daughter” But Also “Mad Woman in the Attic” Defense for Men
“He called me ‘crazy,’ he called me ‘out of my mind.’ And he called me ‘dangerous’,” says New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as she proceeds [Read More…]
#FindSomethingNew: Better If Imagined As A Sexual Exploration Campaign Called #TrySomethingNew
As Ivanka Trump continues to shill Goya products for no benefit other than to 1) assure us we’re in an endless episode of Twin Peaks [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #23: People Losing The Same Sense of Outrage They Had in 2017 When Kim Kardashian West Was Deemed America’s New First Lady
Continuing to experience outrage at this point is almost a herculean effort. For how does one keep up anymore with all the myriad facets of [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #22: The Reagans Feigning Friendship With Rock Hudson & Then Distancing Themselves When He Was Dying of AIDS
While freedom might just be another word for nothing left to lose (like Janis said), Republican, of course, is often just another word for money-grubbing [Read More…]
Y’all Couldn’t Have Just Taken The Teddy Roosevelt Statue Down BEFORE Night at the Museum Could Be Made?
For every great movie set in New York, there are at least five shitty ones to counteract it (consider the likes of Just My Luck, [Read More…]
