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Showing posts with label Argues. Show all posts
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George Lucas Argues with Autograph Seekers About Making an Honest Living
George Lucas has some harsh advice for autograph seekers and compared the ones he saw Friday in NYC to beggars on a street corner. The “Star Wars” creator was immediately peeved when a few people looking for his John Hancock — not true fans in his…
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Little Girl Argues with Dad, Doesn"t Believe in the Number 4
It can be difficult to be a parent.
On one hand, you want your child to possess a strong belief in herself. You want her to be confident and self-assured and to not back down when her values are called in to question.
On the other hand… you want her to understand that the number four does, in fact, exist.
In a Facebook video that has gone crazy bananas viral (over 37 million views!), a little girl name Aaliyah is engaged in an argument with her father.
She is insisting that one counts to five by saying "one, two, three, five."
Her dad is taking a different approaching, trying to explain that there"s a missing digit in there.
With Aaliyah"s mother behind the camera, the adorable girl and the hilarious dad keep going back and forth.
There"s not a lot of substance to the argument; it"s basically just each side stating his or her case over and over and over again.
"You"re skipping four! You can"t just leave four out," the father says. "No, no, that"s not right. … Aaliyah, I"m not going to keep going back and forth with you."
But he does keep going back and forth, of course.
Finally, the genius wife and mother steps in and tries to make a convincing case regarding the number four to Aaliyah.
Does it work? Sort of. See for yourself:
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Kim Kardashian: You"re Not a Feminist If You Support Kanye, Piers Morgan Argues
As you’ve no doubt heard by now, Kanye West is once again stirring the pot with the release of his “Famous” music video.
The clip features nude wax statues of several celebs lying naked in bed next to West.
Despite the deliberate provocation and further cries for attention from Kanye in the form of “somebody sue me!” tweets, most of the famous figured in the clip (who range from Rihanna to George W. Bush) have simply shrugged off West’s latest “performance art” or failed to acknowledge it at all.
The women whose lifeless figures are lying on either side of Kanye in the video, his wifr Kim Kardashian and his longtime rival Taylor Swift, have received the most scrutiny in the wake of the video’s release, which was no doubt West’s intention.
Swift was the subject of a misogynistic tirade in the lyrics of West’s song, and in a recent piece for the Daily Mail journalist Piers Morgan argues that West should face criminal prosecution for using her likeness in what basically amounts to revenge porn:
“This is abuse, pure and simple; an older man exposing a younger woman to public sexual humiliation,” Morgan writes.
“Taylor’s said to be ‘hurt and angry’ by the video, and who can blame her?
“If it was my daughter Kanye was violating in this disgraceful way, I’d be round his house now with the L.A.P.D
“(Perhaps Taylor’s new boyfriend Tom Hiddleston will have his own way of dealing with such a revolting slur?)”
Furthemore, he argues, Kim Kardashian should have her feminist card revoked for blindly supporting her controversial husband.
“‘She’s talented at being beautiful,’ you recently claimed about Kim,” Morgan writes.
“Only none of this is beautiful. It’s ugly; very, very ugly. And it makes further mockery of Kim’s claim to be some sort of feminist icon.”
Kanye is obviously not concerned about being sued by other artists.
But by hitting him where it hurts – he and his wife’s roles as important cultural icons – Morgan may have just delivered a crushing blow to the rapper’s ego.
Kim Kardashian: You"re Not a Feminist If You Support Kanye, Piers Morgan Argues
As you’ve no doubt heard by now, Kanye West is once again stirring the pot with the release of his “Famous” music video.
The clip features nude wax statues of several celebs lying naked in bed next to West.
Despite the deliberate provocation and further cries for attention from Kanye in the form of “somebody sue me!” tweets, most of the famous figured in the clip (who range from Rihanna to George W. Bush) have simply shrugged off West’s latest “performance art” or failed to acknowledge it at all.
The women whose lifeless figures are lying on either side of Kanye in the video, his wifr Kim Kardashian and his longtime rival Taylor Swift, have received the most scrutiny in the wake of the video’s release, which was no doubt West’s intention.
Swift was the subject of a misogynistic tirade in the lyrics of West’s song, and in a recent piece for the Daily Mail journalist Piers Morgan argues that West should face criminal prosecution for using her likeness in what basically amounts to revenge porn:
“This is abuse, pure and simple; an older man exposing a younger woman to public sexual humiliation,” Morgan writes.
“Taylor’s said to be ‘hurt and angry’ by the video, and who can blame her?
“If it was my daughter Kanye was violating in this disgraceful way, I’d be round his house now with the L.A.P.D
“(Perhaps Taylor’s new boyfriend Tom Hiddleston will have his own way of dealing with such a revolting slur?)”
Furthemore, he argues, Kim Kardashian should have her feminist card revoked for blindly supporting her controversial husband.
“‘She’s talented at being beautiful,’ you recently claimed about Kim,” Morgan writes.
“Only none of this is beautiful. It’s ugly; very, very ugly. And it makes further mockery of Kim’s claim to be some sort of feminist icon.”
Kanye is obviously not concerned about being sued by other artists.
But by hitting him where it hurts – he and his wife’s roles as important cultural icons – Morgan may have just delivered a crushing blow to the rapper’s ego.
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Taylor Swift is "The Living Embodiment of White Privilege," Journalist Argues
Over the years, many have questioned the spoon-fed narrative that Taylor Swift is just a simple country girl whose dreams of big-time stardom came true thanks to a combination of hard work, perseverance, and remarkable talent.
Last year, Swift’s first guitar teacher exposed a number of lies about the singer’s past that were most likely created by talent agents and record label execs, but have been repeatedly regurgitated by Taylor and the most public members of her inner circle.
Last week, Kanye West attacked Taylor in a song with a disturbingly misogynistic bent, and the usual cast of family members and celebrity friends rushed to her defense.
Even supporters who usually steer clear of the spotlight, such as Taylor’s brother, got involved by publicly reprimanding West.
Was Kanye out of line? Absolutely. But now, Swift’s camp is experiencing some backlash, as some have argued that Team Taylor is taking a bit too much pleasure in publicly bashing a man who seems to be in the midst of an emotional breakdown.
Regardless of whether or not that’s true, the feud is inarguably more complex than it initially seemed.
There is not, as many once thought, a clear winner here, even if a recent survey by Nielsen reflects that Taylor is far more popular than West amongst music fans.
In an opinion piece published by The Daily Beast yesterday, writer Marlow Stern argues that the results of the survey should surprise no one.
Despite what we’ve been told about Swift beating the odds as the ultimate underdog, Stern writes, she is the product of incredible wealth and privilege, a fact that should maybe make us think twice before we applaud her takedown of a self-made black man from Chicago’s Southside:
“According to the Swift fairy tale, she is the consummate underdog, an outsider who grew up on a Christmas tree farm and was mercilessly bullied and rejected, but never gave up on her dream of music superstardom.
“That Christmas tree farm Swift grew up on in Pennsylvania was actually purchased from one of Swift’s father’s clients (and the family summered at their oceanfront mansion in Stone Harbor, New Jersey).
“You see, Swift’s father is a very wealthy senior vice president at Merrill Lynch—and the descendant of three generations of bank presidents—while her mother worked at a mutual fund and is the daughter of a rich oilman.”
Stern goes on to argue that Taylor has spent years perfecting her persona as “the unpopular geek who deserves your sympathy…while modeling for Abercrombie & Fitch in the eighth grade.“
According to Stern and several others who have studied Swift’s career, positioning herself as the victim is a strategy that Taylor has used in everything from her feud with Katy Perry to her indignant response to jokes made by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler at the 2013 Golden Globes.
Obviously, Taylor has a right to defend herself when she feels she’s being attacked, and Kanye’s remarks were incredibly offensive.
Still, it’s not hard to see why some believe that the feud-happy singer has reached a point in her career where she should be left to fight her own battles – and should perhaps be more selective when choosing said battles.
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