Category: Politics
Monica Lewinsky Is Right to Shoot Her Shot at Asking Beyoncé for a Re-Record of “Partition”
Not long ago in some ways, 2013 was still a cultural moment when a person like Monica Lewinsky could continue to be mocked despite a [Read More…]
Okay But…Jennifer Aniston Has A Point
In another recent example of celebrity tone deafness (see also: “Get your fuckin’ ass up and work”), Jennifer Aniston—formerly “America’s sweetheart” material—has come under fire [Read More…]
Morrissey Should Have Been at the Jubilee to Sing “The Queen Is Dead”
While Morrissey has, over the years, often become a greater source of polarization than the monarchy itself, he is perhaps more “unapologetically British” than said [Read More…]
Kim Said: First the Decimation of Jackie, Now Marilyn
In retrospect, Kim Kardashian going to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner just before the Met Gala, where she would don the “Marilyn dress” (of which [Read More…]
Elizabeth Holmes As White Feminist Emblem
Easily comparable to Anna Delvey in many ways, what Elizabeth Holmes managed to do with her own scam was obviously much worse. For it put [Read More…]
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…]
Kim Kardashian Remakes Herself Into a Conservative Darling by Richsplaining: “Get Your Fuckin’ Ass Up and Work”
Considering Variety’s feature article on the Kardashian-Jenners’ latest reality TV foray on Hulu uses the pull quote, “Money Always Matters” in it, maybe it should [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…]
Social Media in the Time of Full-Scale War
Being that the U.S. in particular has always been sheltered from the sight of war—having never seen it on their soil save for rare occasions [Read More…]
“Girls Just Want to Have Fun” Presents a Woman’s Persistent “At War” Nature of Wanting to Be Taken Seriously Versus Wanting to Fuck Around
Because women’s “liberation,” as a rule, is really not all that “old” or “time-honored,” the gender, unlike the male one, has had to deal with [Read More…]
