She has spoken. Calm down already and stop spreading rumors.
For whoever made the story up in the first place shame on you.
Specifically not saying anything about the 1D drama going down tonight because I have too much to worry about to get as angry as I can see myself getting about it.
Which means I’m not saying anything about how idiotic and horrible it is for someone to make this up (Which, let’s face it, it was most likely fabricated).
Or anything about how ridiculous and infuriating it is that someone would slander a part of the band in order to get a chance to meet them.
So frustrated.
(via mustbefrombrooklyn)
Just FYI: A “hoax” like this is called “libel.” It’s a crime. Since it looks like two or more people collaborated in the libel, that makes it conspiracy defamation. Which is a felony in New York.
Way to go. I hope the odds of a ten-minute radio contest are worth it…
I hate everything right now.
Just, seriously - the more and more clear this becomes that THIS IS A HOAX DELIBERATELY STAGED TO GET TRAFFIC FOR A RADIO STATION CONTEST - this shit is NOT OKAY, THE WORLD.
NOT.
OKAY.
Do you understand that you are potentially RUINING SOMEONE’S LIFE AND REPUTATION (someone who by many accounts already goes through a WHOLE LOT OF TERRIBLE SHIT ON A DAILY BASIS FOR A MYRIAD OF OTHER REASONS) for the SAKE OF A FUCKING RADIO CONTEST???
This being revealed (most likely, hopefully) to be a hoax in the next few minutes/hours/days DOES NOT CHANGE THE FACT THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE MAKING “I WISH HARRY WOULD PUNCH ME IN THE FACE” JOKES.
IT DOES NOT CHANGE THE FACT THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE MAKING PRISON RAPE JOKES HEAVILY BASED ON NEGATIVE STEREOTYPICAL CONNOTATIONS ABOUT HIS SPECULATED SEXUALITY.’
IT DOES NOT CHANGE THE FACT THAT THERE ARE NOW PARENTS WHO WILL NOT ALLOW THEIR CHILDREN TO LISTEN TO/BE FANS OF 1D IF THEY HEAR ABOUT THIS “SCANDAL.”
IT DOES NOT CHANGE THE FACT THAT, LESS THAN A DAY AFTER ZAYN HAD TO READ/HEAR ABOUT THAT FIC, HARRY NOW HAS TO HEAR THAT HE GOT DRUNK AND PUNCHED SOMEONE.
Again, if this is revealed to be true, that’s another issue - that is probably a LOT MORE COMPLICATED THAN WE WILL EVER KNOW, and that still worries and upsets me for a lot of reasons - but the FACTS DO NOT ADD UP HERE, AT ALL.
BUT THE DAMAGE DOES, TO PEOPLE WHO AT THIS RATE STILL DO NOT FUCKING DESERVE ONE BIT OF IT.
(via youshouldletmalikyou)
Also, no, you fucking would not “fangirl if Harry punched you in the face.” You’re a fucking moron and you need to learn both self-respect and general human decency. If Harry punched you in the face, you’d better hope you’d head straight to the police station to report him for battery-assault.
Harry doesn’t get a pass for being ‘hot.’
Can people stop making prison rape jokes? Because they’re really not funny or okay. At all.
(Source: aimmyarrowshigh)
Call it like it is: that wasn’t fanfiction, it was instructional child-rape pornography.
(Source: seducedbystyles, via piratesoul)
(Source: mustbefrombrooklyn)
nice-shrubbery asked: I find that One Direction's lyrics contain subtle misogyny. 'What Makes You Beautiful', for instance, talks about a girl who is compelling primarily because she has no understanding of her attractive qualities. Then, it goes on to conflate make-up and the desire to conceal one's personality. To me, these are really uncomfortable ideas. I was wondering how you reconcile a musician being feminist while performing and profiting from songs like this.
decisions-and-revisions asked:
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this OpEd: bostonglobe(.)com/ opinion/ 2012/05/21/ one-wrong-direction-for-boy-bands-and-their-girl-fans/ qXVCEE6H8DmwRa0n9POBVM/ story(.)html
I’ve actually been asked about that sentiment in WMYB before, and while I see the validity of the argument, I feel like people who consider WMYB all that harmful in the grand scheme of what lyrics to popular music — especially for 1D’s core audience — are out there, have a trifling complaint.
Especially considering the OpEd writer brings up Lady Gaga as a positive alternative for “Born This Way”… I’d rather, personally, be misguidedly told that I don’t need makeup (which I don’t wear anyway) than be told that it’s okay to be a “Chola” or “Orient-made” by someone who makes fun of the audience she pretends to embody and who rolls her eyes when critiqued for the way she co-opts negative terminology for OTHER PEOPLE’s races/sexualities/lifestyles.
…I don’t like Lady Gaga.
But anyway, I feel like it’s definitely valid to say that a good heft of the tween/teen media market is predicated on girls’ socially-reinforced insecurity. But I also feel like, and this is my personal view on it, WMYB isn’t saying “mmmmm insecurityyyyyy; so easy to prey onnn” (the way 80% of Taylor Swift, and yes, Gaga songs, do) insomuch as it’s saying, “hey, I get that society and other guys tell you to be insecure and so you are, and I’m not happy about that, because I like you anyway.”
And that, I don’t think, is a bad message. It’d’ve been nice to hear when I was in high school, instead of being told by boy bands that they wanted “a digital get-down” because they “want it that way.”
(Speaking of, how creepy are the lyrics to “Gonna Be Me”? Or, for a more timely relative comparison of what girls who like boy bands could be listening to… how Ode to Date Rape is “Glad You Came”? Pop music will ALWAYS have problematic lyrics in the majority of its popular core.
If I had a daughter, or if I were 14 now and talking to myself through some kind of time ripple, I’d rather listen to WMYB than be told that other girls are whores and YOU BETTER NOT BE ONE IF YOU WANT TO BE LOVED by Taylor Swift, that using slurs is okay if you’re using them as “endearment” like Gaga, or that boys get to make the decisions about how well you hold your liquor [and what happens after you can’t] like The Wanted.)
Again, these are just my personal views on it from my own understanding of feminism — there are a lot of different schools of feminist thought and all are valid, and not everyone will agree with everyone else’s. I do see pop music as a relativity question, though, and that relatively, WMYB is less problematic than the majority of what’s being marketed/made available now.
(Now, “I Want”? THAT 1D song sucks. THAT song bothers me FOREVER. I try to tell myself that it only got on the album since it was one of the celebrity-written songs, but ugh, god, fuck you “I Want.”)
* I also don’t see where you’re saying WMYB asks her to conceal her personality — can you point it out? I’m trying to think of the lyrics but unless you mean Zayn’s verse, I’m not sure I see it?
