The Off Topic Topic

[Josquius]

Male singers also try to fit into some female mold of a desirable man.

[crazy canuck]

Alternately, most pop culture fits into the patriarchal model privileging the male perspective. Male singers tend to portray what it's like to be a man yearning for a some chick, while female singers tend to model objects of male desire and mentioning some guy's name will burst the bubble for male listener that the female singer really wants to fuck them.

Alternatively, analyzing the world through Yi's warped sexual lens ends in error.

[Jacob]

Alternately, most pop culture fits into the patriarchal model privileging the male perspective. Male singers tend to portray what it's like to be a man yearning for a some chick, while female singers tend to model objects of male desire and mentioning some guy's name will burst the bubble for male listener that the female singer really wants to fuck them.

Alternatively, analyzing the world through Yi's warped sexual lens ends in error.

Agreed... except I don't think it's so much his a sexual lens as his tendency to see every interaction in econ-101-supply-and-demand terms.

[Jacob]

Are you implying that love songs sung by female artists are marketed and designed to be popular to heterosexual men? Because that seems ridiculous.

Uh... yes? Some of them anyways. And many others are designed and marketed to appeal to women's concept of what it takes to be pleasing to a man.

In any case there are very few love pop songs period, and especially in the past 30 years, that mention somebody by name by either gender so we are working with a pretty small sample size.

This whole conversation premise is pretty spurious. Great for shooting the shit, but probably not worth taking too serious

[CountDeMoney]

Alternatively, analyzing the world through Yi's warped sexual lens ends in error.

Agreed... except I don't think it's so much his a sexual lens as his tendency to see every interaction in econ-101-supply-and-demand terms.

Erections have consequences.

[Admiral Yi]

Agreed... except I don't think it's so much his a sexual lens as his tendency to see every interaction in econ-101-supply-and-demand terms.

What in the world does "men look for individuals and women look for types" have to do with economics?

[Savonarola]

I saw a billboard which read: 

PEACE
LOVE
TRUTH

WWW.WHYISLAM.ORG

And I immediately thought, "Ugh, what an awful thing to revive and why are poets always so full of themselves?"  Then realized it was supposed to be WHY-ISLAM not WHY-I-SLAM.

[CountDeMoney]

Mary had a little moose lamb

[Ed Anger]

Best sign I've seen recently is at the Sakura Japanese steakhouse in Springfield Ohio.

"Join us for Runch"

Amusing and racist.

[The Minsky Moment]

181 years ago today Anne Boleyn was arrested for capital inconvenience.

Couple hundred years here is there is just an eyeblink for g.

[Malthus]

Best sign I've seen recently is at the Sakura Japanese steakhouse in Springfield Ohio.

"Join us for Runch"

Amusing and racist.

Did the billboard use a pic of the "Tokyo Kid" ?

If not, there is room for improvement!

Just take this poster and replace the writing on the card the Kid is holding with "Join us for Runch - Sakura Japanese steakhouse". Instant ad! 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TOKYO_KID_SAY_-_NARA_-_515860.jpg

[Ed Anger]

I love american racist war posters.

[HVC]

Best sign I've seen recently is at the Sakura Japanese steakhouse in Springfield Ohio.

"Join us for Runch"

Amusing and racist.

Does that count as a racist caricature or cultural appropriation of a speech impediment. it's so hard to tell these days.

[Jacob]

What in the world does "men look for individuals and women look for types" have to do with economics?

Nothing.

Not sure where I got that from. Got my wires crossed, I blame browsing on my phone....

[Caliga]

I love american racist war posters.

I own an original copy of this one: