So, I wrote this defense of Lana Del Rey and at least half a dozen dudes have checked in and complained because I called male music critics who attack her “dudes”. A couple of them even went as far as saying that my “pejorative” use of dudes rendered the piece unreadable for them. Why yes, that’s my goal, to make cis dudes uncomfortable, after all.
I am, though, even more amused by how they have established that music criticism is a dude realm and pointing out its misogyny is somewhat unthinkable for them.
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