Posts in: Pop culture
- On being fat and likability
- Still, participants didn’t merely exhibit a preference for thin figures and indifference to obese ones — they showed active dislike toward these theoretically obese. That finding, while regrettable, is enlightening. From A Fatter Phobia at Miller-McCune. It’s not clear from the Miller-McCune piece whether or how this varies by race and gender. For example, previous studies (I’m [...] [9 Feb 2010]
- Qusai’s “The Job”: A sample of Saudi hip-hop
- Lyrics are in English and Arabic. His English verse is kind of wack, but interesting for its look at contemporary Saudi culture and economy. I can’t judge his Arabic verse, because I’m monolingual like that. But that beat? Lovin’ it. Learn more about Qusai on his MySpace page. [Via Saudi Jeans.] [4 Feb 2010]
- On surviving — even profiting — in a magazine downturn
- People were getting tired of seeing things they loved go away. A lot of people felt powerless to change that, and all of a sudden we were presenting them with an opportunity to help fix it, and our readers literally helped save Paste. Paste magazine co-owner Josh Jackson in Back in Black in Audience Development. Paste, [...] [13 Jan 2010]
- Avatar in China
- Across the Chinese blogosphere, debate has focused on the parallels between the movie’s story and recent incidents in China, prompting some to wonder if Cameron’s film might be intended as an attack on the Chinese government. Others have rallied behind the film, arguing that it has raised public awareness of the unfairness of China’s eminent [...] [12 Jan 2010]
- Africa(n movie roles) for Africans
- Now, let’s start by saying that Jennifer Hudson is a capable actress. She blew Beyoncé out the water in Dreamgirls and by all accounts she did her thing in The Secret Life of Bees. But like all outfits aren’t for all weather conditions, all parts aren’t for all people. It was an outright shock to [...] [21 Dec 2009]
- On internalized racism
- I did not see myself as an African in those books. I took sides with the white men against the savages. In other words, I went through my first level of schooling thinking I was of the party of the white man in his hair-raising adventures and narrow escapes. The white man was good and [...] [15 Dec 2009]
- On black men loving black women
- I love black women always Disrespect ain’t the way Let’s start our family today Hip-hop hooray! — Treach from Naughty By Nature’s “Hip-Hop Hooray.” Naughty By Nature is performing at Atlanta’s Luckie Lounge tonight. V-103 played this song this morning. Aside: We sure wore some ugly sh*t in the 1990s. [11 Dec 2009]
- Elin Nordegren: Angry White Woman?
- With just one swing of a golf club, Tiger Woods’s wife, Elin, has shattered, or at least cracked, the stereotype of the angry and uncontrollable black woman. I, along with what I suspect to be countless other black women, would like to thank her. Not that I condone violence against anyone, but for far too [...] [8 Dec 2009]
- On Gabby Sidibe and Hollywood
- Jezebel engages in some original journalism asks After Precious: Does Hollywood Have A Place For Gabby Sidibe? Eyde Belasco, who cast Sidibe in Yelling To The Sky and has worked on movies like (500) Days of Summer and Half Nelson, writes in an email that her own choice had “very little to do with her look [...] [4 Dec 2009]
- Post-Katrina New Orleans as a video game setting?
- Although a prominent setting in other creative mediums, the South is frequently neglected as a location for games. The industry has yet to find its Faulkner, but Johnson and his team chose the same noir setting that animates HBO’s True Blood. “The geography, the plant life and the look of that part of the country [...] [4 Dec 2009]