"I get the sense that asexuality is part of her hippie aesthetic."

marathonpacks:

About one of the most resolutely sexual albums of the last few years. A shame that Grantland’s huge audience is exposed to this level of crude misrepresentation masquerading as coy/self-effacing insight.

This is the quote that stood out most to me eyeroll-worthy, but there are tons of vague undertones of sexism here. I usually like Klosterman more than most people, but this article is one step away from being completely indefensible.

Notes

  1. blood0pressuremonitorreviews reblogged this from hardcorefornerds and added:
    ‘asexual’...(‘sex’)
  2. fly-agaric reblogged this from marathonpacks
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  5. popquizkid reblogged this from douglasmartini and added:
    See, maybe I only like this piece because I hate Tune-Yards so much, but honestly, whatever, I don’t care, it’s great....
  6. katbeee reblogged this from douglasmartini and added:
    The only reason I can get behind Klosterman’s piece is because I find ~~*~TunE-YaRdZZ*~*~~ to be agonizingly...
  7. goodbyemisery reblogged this from likeapairofbottlerockets and added:
    Fuck, ignoring the fact that if you find her or her music asexual OR androgynous you’ve missed almost the entire point,...
  8. likeapairofbottlerockets reblogged this from hardcorefornerds and added:
    Also don’t really get the androgynous thing. She wears pink frilly stuff onstage. Sigh.
  9. hardcorefornerds reblogged this from marathonpacks and added:
    I dunno, it might help to include the surrounding paragraph:...It’s fairly clear that he...
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