Recently, I had a friend tell me she was interested in listening to Phoebe Bridgers. If you haven’t been living under a rock, chances are that you’ve at least heard of her before. However, if you’ve never gotten around to listening, that’s okay, because I’m here to help.
So many female celebrities get hate from other women for similarly arbitrary reasons, and it all comes from internalized misogyny. It is time to stop this ugly behavior of women tearing down other women and leave it behind in middle school.
In second grade, I asked a girl in my class if she liked my new haircut. I was insecure and nervous about how I looked, so I needed the approval of a peer. But if desperately diving for compliments wasn’t...
I’d argue that the ‘90s was the golden age of Black culture for years, if ever someone was silly enough to disagree. The ‘90s brought the origin of the oversized, colorful, arguably ugly, patched clothing that people were smart enough to donate to thrift stores and kids are falsely nostalgic enough to pick up and wear proudly now. The ‘90s gave us very famous or infamous (depending on how one views it) East Coast versus West Coast rap beef that was heated, and deadly, unfortunately. People who are most resistant to change often refer to this era as the time of “real rap.”
