Here’s another example of why you shouldn’t mess with Neko Case. The official Playboy Dot Com Twitter page mentioned Case to Tim Grierson’s album review. The tweet referred Case “is breaking the mold of what women in the music industry should be.”
Thanks to Carly G Marie, here’s a screen grab of their conversation:
Unfortunately, the review wasn’t any better:
For women, it’s more bankable to be alluring—whether that comes in the form of the confident straight shooter (Beyoncé), the girlie pinup (Katy Perry) or the coquettish ingenue (Taylor Swift)—or to reject outright such conventions and be a hell-hath-no-fury flamethrower (Fiona Apple).
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Wash her mouth out with anti-bacterial soap. She’s useless. How’s the world going to procreate if this is woman?
Neko Case is amazing. If we only had more of her fearlessness, instead of the typical attitudes (such as previous post) which propagate subjectification.
The same way that the world has procreated for millennia, Mammey. Not everyone is as devoted to the idea of the woman-as-shrinking-violet as you appear to be.