02-13-2012, 07:52 PM
What I find sad is that so many gay men revel in that type of "cultural" garbage . . . from Paris Hilton, to Snooky, to the Kardashians, to Tila Tequila, and Nicki Minaj.
If you really don't like this sort of thing . . . change the channel, people. EMT is not so interesting that you can't do without it. Hell, turn off the T.V. pick up a book or go down to the music store and hit one of the sections outside of pop, hip-hop, and R&B. Who knows, you might discover something new and interesting in those sections, you might even discover something new about yourself.
And no, that is not all there is to American culture. Perhaps for those people who spend all there time watching the same T.V. and listening to the same music over and over again it is. But that movie illustrates the most shallow aspects of it, the crap in the toilet that floats to the surface. If you don't know your own country and culture better than that, I think that says something more about you than the culture.
Sorry, soap box moment. But I've had to put up with a ration of shit from people all my adult life for preferring Callas, Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, Dinah Washington, Johnny Cash, and John Adams to Britney Spears, Madonna, Katy Perry and Justin Bieber.
If you really don't like this sort of thing . . . change the channel, people. EMT is not so interesting that you can't do without it. Hell, turn off the T.V. pick up a book or go down to the music store and hit one of the sections outside of pop, hip-hop, and R&B. Who knows, you might discover something new and interesting in those sections, you might even discover something new about yourself.
And no, that is not all there is to American culture. Perhaps for those people who spend all there time watching the same T.V. and listening to the same music over and over again it is. But that movie illustrates the most shallow aspects of it, the crap in the toilet that floats to the surface. If you don't know your own country and culture better than that, I think that says something more about you than the culture.
Sorry, soap box moment. But I've had to put up with a ration of shit from people all my adult life for preferring Callas, Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, Dinah Washington, Johnny Cash, and John Adams to Britney Spears, Madonna, Katy Perry and Justin Bieber.