Oh Well, Whatever, Never Mind: On Misogyny, Courtney Love, and the Guitar Hero 5 Controversy by Sady Doyle.
A good read.
The legend of Kurt Cobain is that he killed himself because he’d gone too mainstream, because he’d succeeded too well, because he’d failed to uphold some gold standard of indie purity. And, in that respect, animating him so that he can sing a Bon Jovi song in Guitar Hero 5 is a slap in the face. Everything he never wanted. But here’s an another, more realistic take: he killed himself because he was a deeply troubled man.
I’ll Show You Indecency, Sir: A Rant by Michelle Dean
This one gets better with every paragraph.
Back in the day when the Super Bowl event happened we could sort of brush all this off as the craziness of living in Bush America: the inmates were running the asylum, what can one do when sanity is unrepresented in government, etc etc.
And at the end of the day, it’s my respect for pop culture as a liberatory practice, in television as a medium in which one does learn things, that suggests to me we all have a stake in better rearranging it to promote certain public goods. Like, you know, civic responsibility.
-CJ
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