Constantly traveling alone in car for work, I crave Top 40 music to help get me from point A to point B. Yes, it is overplayed and the lyrics are over-simplified, but their catchiness allows me to mentally check out and make my drive home much quicker. However, lately I choose driving in silence since…
By now, the “Shit Girls Say” meme trend is old news to avid bloggers, Tumblr users and Internet addicts everywhere. I remember coming across the viral “Shit Girls Say” video on my Tumblr dashboard on a morning during Winter break and responding with instantaneous laughter. I chuckled at a few of the jokes and loved…
I love Tom Haverford, the nasally-voiced government employee on “Parks and Recreation” whose R&B-esque musical outbursts and slang-laden vocabulary are constant sources of jokes and my adoration. But this is a blog about gender stereotypes in the media, so let’s momentarily forget about the comedic stylings of Aziz Ansari, and instead analyze his character sociologically.…