Category: Observation
Mocking People Who Have Had Plastic Surgery and Other Cosmetic Procedures is a Form of Body Shaming
It seems every time that Madonna appears without the very filters she’s mocked for using, she ends up subsequently being mocked tenfold for not using [Read More…]
Madonna’s Face as Andy Warhol’s Philosophy
Andy Warhol, of course, had many philosophies. On fame, love, work, time. A large bulk of them being placed in 1975’s The Philosophy of Andy [Read More…]
Cold War Stereotypes Renewed: GLOW and the Russian Supervillain
American pop culture has always had a “ready-made” villain in the form of Russians (“those dirty Russians,” “fucking Russians,” etc.). Even as freshly as 2018’s [Read More…]
Anna Delvey: Another Bane for Millennial Representation That Reminds People How Much They Still Think Said Generation is “Worse” (Read: More Entitled) Than Gen Z
Because one of the most emblematic things of the millennial generation is pop culture-oriented retromania, it’s no wonder that the story of Anna Delvey, not [Read More…]
Lieutenant Dan: New Year’s Eve Mascot Extraordinaire
Over the course of recent years (namely 2020), Lieutenant Dan (Gary Sinise) from Robert Zemeckis’ Forrest Gump has become something of a cult hero, a [Read More…]
Betty Broderick and Patrizia Reggiani: Two Similarly Motivated Women When It Came to Killing Their Husbands, With the Former Being Portrayed as More Empathetic
As everyone continues to praise Lady Gaga for her horrendous accent in House of Gucci, there’s something else in her performance that audiences have unwittingly [Read More…]
American “Independence”: The Laughable-On-Many-Levels Theme of the Met Gala
Maybe because when one is rich/a celebrity and independence feels inherently natural, it might prove something of a challenge to imagine a world in which [Read More…]
Bennifer and Netflix’s Dark: A Time Loop Correlation
Not that anyone needed further proof that the current form of existence is some kind of conspiracy/matrix-oriented operation, but Bennifer 2.0 seems to want to [Read More…]
On Being An OG and Trying to Make “Fun” Happen in New York
Madonna, a bona fide OG of the era in New York that people still most romanticize—the 80s—has been unable to avoid trying to recapture the [Read More…]
Billie Eilish Is A Jobist
Despite the increasingly worn-down veneer of what “work” is supposed to “mean” in a post-COVID world, Billie Eilish, that ever-increasingly normie Gen Zer/goy toy, has [Read More…]
