Category: Pop Culture
Skin Care As Art: Madonna’s Latest Campaign For MDNA Explores Sexism (Against Men), F. Scott Fitzgerald
If one was going to be cynical and think that Madonna’s foray into the skin care realm was a passing fancy in the vein of [Read More…]
The Awkwardness of Being A Feminist When Someone You’ve Worked With Turns Out to Be A Predator
The precedent for women declaring themselves as feminists yet still going ahead and working with known sexual predators was most glaringly set in recent years [Read More…]
Bryce Walker: A High School “Caricature” Made Real in Brett Kavanaugh
Samantha Jones may have said, “Who we are in bed is who we are in life,” but perhaps the more accurate assessment is, “Who we [Read More…]
Madonna’s Railing Letter Commenting on David Letterman Apprearance Up for Auction Holds Truer Than Ever
With no shortage of scandals to look back upon in her career by the mid-90s, Madonna wasn’t content to simply lie down and roll over [Read More…]
The Feud That Escalated Between Nicki Minaj and Cardi B Speaks to the “Crash” Conundrum of Blackness
Crash was, like La La Land, one of those Oscar-hyped/winning films that people instantaneously lauded before ripping it a new asshole for being “contrived” and [Read More…]
Anything Cardi Did Solange Did Better
The altercation between Cardi B and Nicki Minaj (instigated by the former) that occurred at the Harper’s Bazaar ICONS party in honor of New York Fashion [Read More…]
The Death of Robin Leach Rather Signifies the Death of Coveting Wealth
In the 1980s, there was no better example of just how much these years had earned the nickname “the decade of excess” than a certain [Read More…]
J. Lo in Capri & the Myth of Italy
People have such staunch and unshakeable ideas about Italy, especially when it comes to idealizing it. Who knows if this was always the case or [Read More…]
Thinkin’ Bout How Jack Antonoff Has Somehow Remade Lana Del Rey in Lena Dunham’s Image
It’s not feminist or whatever to talk about women’s looks in the present climate, especially when famous women already have enough scrutiny on a daily [Read More…]
Going Through Hollywood to Get to the Presidency: A Symbol of the Ever-Deteriorating Meaning of Politics
Not that Hollywood really means anything anymore–at least in terms of being held up as an impenetrable beacon of light that we should all aspire [Read More…]
