Worst Songs of 2020

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But that's my point.

This does not help stop slut shaming.
It's not trying to stop it. These ideas of propriety are so deeply ingrained in society that it is impossible to stop it altogether, although it is possible to challenge certain societal taboos is a bid to change public perception gradually over time. There will always be the hangers on who steadfastly refuse to change and usually they are the ones who are the loudest. Gay rights activists didn't start using the term faggot to stop other people from being homophobic, they did it to flip the script - to say 'fuck you, you don't get to tell us how to live, you're the problem'. The effectiveness of the strategy is open to debate, for sure.....but I think all in all, slut shaming is decreasing as society shifts away from taboos about the sex lives of women.
 

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It just shows that you don't have to have talent these days, just out-do the latest whore and try to claim the title of the dirtiest slut in music.
Cardi B, a talentless stripper who would drug men and rob them and brag about it because she "had to support herself, because she had no other options" somehow manages to get a recored deal and become the face of female empowerment.

She is not someone I want my young and impressionable daughter looking up to. Unfortunately these are the types that seem to influence the younger girls these days.
 

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It's been debunked that violent video games make people violent, just like listening to heavy metal makes you a Satanist devil worshipper.
Yep I don't play video games but my brother does. He's been playing GTA since it first came out and so far he has killed zero prostitutes and stolen zero cars. I listen to metal and I'm an atheist. I have no plans to worship Satan any time soon
 

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It's been debunked that violent video games make people violent, just like listening to heavy metal makes you a Satanist devil worshipper.
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Every few years some US or Australian senator tries to ban video games and every time they are faced with tons of research showing no link between video game violence and real life violence.
 

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It's been debunked that violent video games make people violent, just like listening to heavy metal makes you a Satanist devil worshipper.
I personally can't tally that with reality.

Some are affected by porn and some poor upbringing, some life experiences etc so I can't see violent video games being any different. Didn't say everyone generally is affected to the extent that they go out and practice on their neighbours :grinning: but I do think that generally the violence in the games, the skanky behaviour and the sexualisation of women, the pressure to act like alpha males/sporting gods for men...does lead to less genuine concern and manners towards others and a now heightened acceptance that its all about me, me, me and what I can aggressively take if I have to.

Just my thoughts that all of these things stimulate the brain and lead to other consequences. Not all participants are affected equally yet some part of their brain gets the artificial stimulant that fulfills the craving.
 

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It's not trying to stop it. These ideas of propriety are so deeply ingrained in society that it is impossible to stop it altogether, although it is possible to challenge certain societal taboos is a bid to change public perception gradually over time. There will always be the hangers on who steadfastly refuse to change and usually they are the ones who are the loudest. Gay rights activists didn't start using the term faggot to stop other people from being homophobic, they did it to flip the script - to say 'fuck you, you don't get to tell us how to live, you're the problem'. The effectiveness of the strategy is open to debate, for sure.....but I think all in all, slut shaming is decreasing as society shifts away from taboos about the sex lives of women.
".....but I think all in all, slut shaming is decreasing as society shifts away from taboos about the sex lives of women".

I still can't see that Cardi B acting like a totally vulgar exhibitionist is helping the protest cause but I agree with your general hypothesis :grinning:
 

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".....but I think all in all, slut shaming is decreasing as society shifts away from taboos about the sex lives of women".

I still can't see that Cardi B acting like a totally vulgar exhibitionist is helping the protest cause but I agree with your general hypothesis :grinning:
I think she's a modern day pioneer. Her birthday should be an international holiday!
 

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Yep I don't play video games but my brother does. He's been playing GTA since it first came out and so far he has killed zero prostitutes and stolen zero cars. I listen to metal and I'm an atheist. I have no plans to worship Satan any time soon
No need to worship satan when you can worship lemmy
 

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Did someone on here say they really dig Bieber?

 

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Occasionally a song comes along that's so bad that it could result in the end of society as we know it. A song so devastatingly terrible that the only hope for humanity is if we all hear it so we can all suffer together. This is that song.

Don't get me wrong. I still love Shakira and plan to marry her one day. My wife is fully aware of this. But this is just horrible.

Has there been a worse song this year?

Who fucking cares ... we just signed JAC!!!!
 
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