Quotes tagged ‘Pop Culture’

(112 total)

“In 2014, making a song about shaking it off may have been alright. In 2017, it just reads as irrelevancy.”

“Whedon’s feminism is now out of date and one-note, often focusing on thin white women who are physically strong but emotionally weak.”

— Sima Shakeri, huffingtonpost.ca

“You can dress it up with talk of glamour and bunny ears and fishnets, you can talk about his contribution to gonzo journalism, you can contextualise his drive to free up sex as part of the sexual revolution. But strip it all back and he was a man who bought and sold women to other men.”

— Suzanne Moore, theguardian.com

“The fantasy that Hefner sold was not a fantasy of freedom for women, but for men.”

— Suzanne Moore, theguardian.com

“Pop culture is a lot more important than a lot of people realize.”

— Hugh Hefner, nsarchive2.gwu.edu

“Gotham's evil incarnate is a simplification of the problems that we face, and Batman is a simplification of us, of all of us, who do the good that makes the world work. In some peculiar way, we are all bat-people: not the heroes Earth needs, but the heroes Earth just happened to get.”

— Hank Green, youtube.com

“Gotham's criminals aren't a product of disenfranchisement and undervaluation by culture. "Some people", as Alfred tells Master Wayne, "just want to watch the world burn." So, Batman is a reflection of our anger and our ambition and our frustration that our powerlessness to fix that things that we se…”

— Hank Green, youtube.com

“It was an awards show. And they won! Why are we even talking about this?”

— Ryan Holiday, thoughtcatalog.com

“There is only one thing on this earth more powerful than evil. And that’s us.”

— Buffy Summers, amazon.com

“Power. I have it. They don’t. This bothers them.”

— Buffy Summers, amazon.com

“I’ve seen honest faces before. They’re usually attached to liars.”

— Willow Rosenberg, amazon.com

“I’m the thing that monsters have nightmares about. And right now, you and me are gonna show ‘em why.”

— Buffy Summers, amazon.com

“When I say ‘I love you,’ it’s not because I want you or because I can’t have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I’ve seen your kindness and your strength. I’ve seen the best and worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. Y…”

— Spike, amazon.com

“If the apocalypse comes, beep me.”

— Buffy Summers, amazon.com

“These women talk about feminism, but I feel Rihanna lives it. She doesn’t tend to speak up about gender equality and other major issues, but she embodies one of the most important acts of feminist: to be yourself and not feel you have to apologise for it. This is evident in everything she does... Wh…”

— Radhika Sanghani, telegraph.co.uk

“Rihanna is more than a superstar. She’s the ultimate icon of the digital age. She’s had more Number One singles in 10 years than Madonna has managed in three decade.”

— Peter Robinson, pocketmags.com

“Personally, I thank Good Girls Gone Bad [music artists] for giving me the blueprint for ignoring those around me who felt the need to tell me who I was. There will always be detractors, and someone will always think you are ‘faking it,’ but none of that matters if you know that this new and ever-cha…”

— Michelle Ofiwe, rookiemag.com

“The truth is this: No one stays the same forever. Girls grow up, and sometimes we do it with a bang. We can learn something from the Good Girls Gone Bad of every decade: how to claim yourself, how to rewrite your narrative, that it’s never too late to change.”

— Michelle Ofiwe, rookiemag.com

“I’ve seen many ‘good girls go bad,’ but I specifically remember when Rihanna named her fourth album after the trope, effectively putting the industry on notice: We were about to encounter an entirely new woman... Being a young woman is complex. We’re told, in some capacity, that our silence protects…”

— Michelle Ofiwe, rookiemag.com

“That Rihanna girl... She’s a beast.”

— Beyoncé Knowles, vanityfair.com