B-Fed
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
cerealkiller [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to El Chisme@hexbear.netEnglish · 5 days ago

Sabrina Carpenter Album Controversy: Women’s Organization Slams ‘Regressive’ Cover As Fans Defend It As Satire

www.forbes.com

external-link
message-square
108
link
fedilink
34
external-link

Sabrina Carpenter Album Controversy: Women’s Organization Slams ‘Regressive’ Cover As Fans Defend It As Satire

www.forbes.com

cerealkiller [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to El Chisme@hexbear.netEnglish · 5 days ago
message-square
108
link
fedilink
Sabrina Carpenter Album Cover Controversy, Explained
www.forbes.com
external-link
A Scottish women’s charity said Carpenter’s new album cover evokes “tired tropes” of women being “possessions,” while fans have defended her cover as satirical commentary on sexism.
  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    5 days ago

    Do you have examples of useful satire?

    I am willing to debate this and reconsider my view but I never see anyone materially demonstrate its usefulness.

    • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      5 days ago

      did “hey let’s eat irish babies” do anything over there or is swift’s only legacy being used as a school lesson? they skipped the part where they should’ve told us if it made a difference.

      • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        5 days ago

        Honestly have no idea, not one I’m an expert on. Perhaps? I wonder if the efficacy of this style of critique changes depending on society and media literacy rate. Probably? This would also be different historically I assume.

        • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          5 days ago

          yeah there are several sibling chains about riding the line of subtlety and i think that’s mostly a literacy issue.

      • pisstoria [he/him]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        4 days ago

        The name “Vanessa” comes from a poem of his, but I don’t think that’s too relevant to his satire.

        • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          4 days ago

          i also forgot about a bunch of stuff from gulliver’s travels, but byte-order conventions are probably not relevant either

    • WizardOfLoneliness [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      5 days ago

      Do you have examples of useful satire

      can’t believe we’re forgetting shrek

      • SovietBeerTruckOperator [none/use name]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        5 days ago

        Some… BODY!!!

        • 9to5 [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          5 days ago

          Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me I ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed

          She was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb In the shape of an “L” on her forehead

          • SovietBeerTruckOperator [none/use name]@hexbear.net
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            5 days ago

            Well, the years start comin’ and they don’t stop comin’

            Fed to the rules and I hit the ground runnin’

    • SchillMenaker [he/him]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      5 days ago

      I just watched a crash analysis video of Air France flight 447 and right before it slams into the ocean the first officer says “This can’t be true!”

      That’s how this post makes me feel

    • SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      4 days ago

      Blazing Saddles single handedly killed an entire (racist as fuck) film genre

    • BanSwitch2Buyers [none/use name]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      5 days ago

      Pixar’s Sodas.

      • TreadOnMe [none/use name]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        5 days ago

        Dogcatcher Inataro?

      • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        5 days ago

        Not sure what this means?

    • BanSwitch2Buyers [none/use name]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      5 days ago

      Aamon Animations’ stuff.

      • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        5 days ago

        Is this satire? Or full on lampooning? Depicting the other side as giant fucking alien biblical monsters doesn’t seem satirical but a rather direct and clear attack.

        • BanSwitch2Buyers [none/use name]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          6
          ·
          5 days ago

          the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

          • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            edit-2
            5 days ago

            Right ok but that’s not really the kind of satire we’re talking about is it? I mean, we can get technical about word definitions or we can talk about what we’re actually criticising which is a specific strain of content that depicts something that is only understood to be humour/critique when looking at the subtext of the content using some sort of media literacy.

            My point here is that if you don’t need to analyse or read subtext to understand it’s satire, it’s not what we’re talking about when we say satire doesn’t work.

      • Lyudmila [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        5 days ago

        This is not an example of satire, it’s surrealism.

    • hollowmines [he/him]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      5 days ago

      I don’t think I even like the initial premise that it’s art’s job to be “materially useful”

      • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        5 days ago

        That’s fair. But art still falls into politically useful, politically useless, and politically harmful categories. I’m going to prefer the useful and I’m going to tell people to make more of the useful and less of the useless, while actively trying to prevent the harmful.

        With that said. I’m not going to say something useless but entirely unrelated to politics should stop. Just that people making political art could do so in a different and more useful way.

      • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        5 days ago

        L’art pour l’art arose out of 19th century France when the French bourgeoisie finally controlled the entirety of French society. Art being done for its own sake or being done as a form of self expression arose out of capitalist society. This was 100% not true in feudal society where artists weren’t expected to even credit themselves. Various socialist art movements like socialist realism also eschews l’art pour l’art for its literal bourgeois origins.

        The idea of some dirt-poor artist channeling their mental illness to produce sublime art is just some stereotype that arose out of capitalist society.

        • hollowmines [he/him]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          4 days ago

          I thought this instrumental funk album I put on was neat, dismayed to learn it’s actually bourgeois decadence.

        • Thallo [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          5 days ago

          So we’re not allowed to do art for art’s sake?

          When I make paintings that nobody but me will see or write poems that nobody will read because I enjoy the process and creating art, I’m doing a liberalism? Lol

          • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]@hexbear.net
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            5 days ago

            I think there are many ways to approach art, but “art for art’s sake” shouldn’t be seen as a model. If anything, it should be treated somewhat dismissively.

    • BanSwitch2Buyers [none/use name]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      4 days ago

      https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertarian-police-department

El Chisme@hexbear.net

gossip@hexbear.net

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !gossip@hexbear.net

Place for posting about the dumb shit public figures say.

Rules:

Rule 1: The subject of a post must be a public person.

Rule 2: All posts must include links to the subject matter, and no identifying information should be redacted.

Rule 3: If your source is a reactionary website, please use archive.is instead of linking directly.

Rule 4: No sectarianism.

Rule 5: TERF/SWERFs Not Welcome

Rule 6: No ableism of any kind (that includes stuff like libt*rd)

Rule 7: Do not post fellow hexbears.

Rule 8: Do not individually target other instances’ admins or moderators.

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 87 users / day
  • 602 users / week
  • 1.18K users / month
  • 1.21K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 429 subscribers
  • 169 Posts
  • 1.84K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • sweet_pecan [love/loves, they/them]@hexbear.net
  • CARCOSA [mirror/your pronouns]@hexbear.net
  • gaystyleJoker [she/her]@hexbear.net
  • replaceable [he/him]@hexbear.net
  • ZoomeristLeninist [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
  • SexUnderSocialism [she/her]@hexbear.net
  • a_little_red_rat [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
  • BE: 0.19.11
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org