Colonialism and the World Cup (via Feministing).
Lady Gaga and femin(ism)/(ity) (via my friend Catherine).
Sociological Images on hyper-sexualized hyper-masculinity in the 'net comedy world.
New Stars album comes out tomorrow! I am excited (this is unrelated to the rest of the post).
However...new book coming out tomorrow that I want to read!
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Took my sweet time getting to this, but here goes:
ReplyDelete1. As interesting as the Stone article on Gaga turned out to be, it was interesting in spite of its original subject, rather than because of it. Gaga remains a totally worthless musician in my mind and I am actually kind of furious that she has in the last year managed to convince pretty much every music/cultural critic I trust that there is more to her than meets the eye. As far as I can tell, she has a hugely contradictory and incoherent aesthetic that has allowed people to read into her far more than they should, and she combines it with boring, tinny pop songs.
2. Internet comedy is totally, totally, totally the realm of men. It's beyond me to explain why, but virtually every semi-successful youtube comedy troupe is composed of 4+ men, collegehumour and cracked are just fhm, and most viral memes that bled off the internet in the last few years prominently feature dudes and penises (chatroulette, brosicingbros). The best example I can think of, which you could originally read as a critique of hypermasculinity in advertising, is the powerthirst video. The guys who wrote it made a second, and then a bunch of other unrelated videos after that, but they carried the same approach to every single subject, which was to have a bunch of violent, non-sequitur interludes and yelling. Weak tea, and it weakens even the original product upon rewatching.