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24th January 2012

Link reblogged from Hardcore for Nerds with 42 notes

"I get the sense that asexuality is part of her hippie aesthetic." →

hardcorefornerds:

marathonpacks:

About one of the most resolutely sexual albums of the last few years. A shame that Grantland’s huge audience is exposed to this level of crude misrepresentation masquerading as coy/self-effacing insight.

I dunno, it might help to include the surrounding paragraph:

“tUnE-yArDs is essentially one person, a somewhat androgynous American woman named Merrill Garbus. This is her second album. I get the sense that asexuality is part of her hippie aesthetic, because I just looked at the tUnE-yArDs Wikipedia page and noticed that the wiki writer put a lot of effort into never using gender-specific pronouns.”

It’s fairly clear that he means ‘asexual’ in the associated meaning of androgynous, or neither one gender (‘sex’) or the other. Of course, unfortunately asexual doesn’t mean quite that, rather implying the absence of sexuality altogether. I’m not trying to save Klosterman’s thesis here (save for objecting to the crude dismissal of it altogether) but the response points up the equally unfortunate fact that sexuality is generally seen in an exclusively gendered form. Really, if you’re talking about tUnE-yArDs being androgynous*, that is in no way sufficient to assume she is asexual (or to assume that is the inference on the author’s part); it’s simply a commentary on gender, not sexuality. Bad choice of words, not a bad idea.

I don’t know if I like tUnE-yArDs at all, but I find Klosterman’s** article a bit more interesting than the panties-twisting/chest-thumping going on around it.

*if anything, she’s acameral

** incidentally, how come people don’t make more of the (probable) fact that ‘Klosterman’ means “man in the monastery (cloister)” in German?

Also don’t really get the androgynous thing. She wears pink frilly stuff onstage. Sigh.

Tagged: sextune-yards

Source: marathonpacks

  1. popquizkid reblogged this from douglasmartini and added:
    See, maybe I only like this piece because I hate Tune-Yards so much, but honestly, whatever, I don’t care, it’s great....
  2. katbeee reblogged this from douglasmartini and added:
    The only reason I can get behind Klosterman’s piece is because I find ~~*~TunE-YaRdZZ*~*~~ to be agonizingly...
  3. goodbyemisery reblogged this from likeapairofbottlerockets and added:
    Fuck, ignoring the fact that if you find her or her music asexual OR androgynous you’ve missed almost the entire point,...
  4. likeapairofbottlerockets reblogged this from hardcorefornerds and added:
    Also don’t really get the androgynous thing. She wears pink frilly stuff onstage. Sigh.
  5. hardcorefornerds reblogged this from marathonpacks and added:
    I dunno, it might help to include the surrounding paragraph:...It’s fairly clear that he...
  6. consumergradevideo reblogged this from douglasmartini
  7. liquidiousfleshbag reblogged this from douglasmartini and added:
    I’m confused, what the hell does asexuality have to do with a lack of gendered pronouns on their wiki page? (when...
  8. douglasmartini reblogged this from marathonpacks and added:
    me eyeroll-worthy, but there are tons...vague undertones of sexism here. I usually like...
  9. cdienel said: asexual is never a word that comes to mind when i think of her music! it’s resolutely sensual, down to the lyrics. I’m glad to see more people rejecting the assumption that for women to write music they must also be conventional objects of desire.
  10. jsmooth995 said: So bad. WTF.
  11. katiechow reblogged this from marathonpacks
  12. teenageart said: Sorry - I’m guessing by “asexual,” he means, “not sexually attractive to me.” Her sexuality is very complex!
  13. tomewing said: I actually misread this as “sexuality” first time and thought hmm OK well at least he didn’t use “primal”
  14. marathonpacks posted this