@ApeSmith I agree that it’s innocuous, but prior to current usage “chicks” are a cute baby animal & “dudes” are well-dressed men. It fits the pattern of objectifying/infantalizing language when talking about women while maintaining language about men that preserves dignity 🤷🏼♂️
The longest-running chart topper in pop music history is by a queer black rapper cribbing country style for funsies. This is what America looks most like when it looks its best. Nobody can front like there’s a “real America” that isn’t 💯% represented by @LilNasX
@mikalkhill I read Garfield collections religiously as a child, perhaps unto completion, and loved them deeply. But I grew up I realized that Jim Davis just wasn’t that clever. Nor funny. Perhaps he was onto something to begin with, but a few years in he was barely outpacing Family Circus.