"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. 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....
  2. 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...
  3. 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,...
  4. likeapairofbottlerockets reblogged this from hardcorefornerds and added:
    Also don’t really get the androgynous thing. She wears pink frilly stuff onstage. Sigh.
  5. hardcorefornerds reblogged this from marathonpacks and added:
    I dunno, it might help to include the surrounding paragraph:...It’s fairly clear that he...
  6. consumergradevideo reblogged this from douglasmartini
  7. liquidiousfleshbag reblogged this from douglasmartini and added:
    I’m confused, what the hell does asexuality have to do with a lack of gendered pronouns on their wiki page? (when...
  8. douglasmartini reblogged this from marathonpacks and added:
    me eyeroll-worthy, but there are tons...vague undertones of sexism here. I usually like...
  9. cdienel said: asexual is never a word that comes to mind when i think of her music! it’s resolutely sensual, down to the lyrics. I’m glad to see more people rejecting the assumption that for women to write music they must also be conventional objects of desire.
  10. jsmooth995 said: So bad. WTF.
  11. katiechow reblogged this from marathonpacks
  12. teenageart said: Sorry - I’m guessing by “asexual,” he means, “not sexually attractive to me.” Her sexuality is very complex!
  13. tomewing said: I actually misread this as “sexuality” first time and thought hmm OK well at least he didn’t use “primal”
  14. marathonpacks posted this