Sloppy NYTimes review of Sleater-Kinney

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Taken from the review of Wednesday's Webster Hall show...

Ms. Tucker and Ms. Brownstein, who write the songs, are openly gay and sometimes write politically charged lyrics.

Corin Tucker's married with a kid.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 4 August 2006 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

so write a letter to the editor

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 4 August 2006 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

carrie's shacked up with a man now too, i believe.

xpost - who wrote it?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 August 2006 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

Corin Tucker's married with a kid.

i would have regarded this as potentially worthy of mention, but I also don't see how it makes the article wrong

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

they're called "lesbians until graduation"

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

I suppose the "Ms." is inaccurate

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

http://themave.com/bijou/cvrs/taywyckcvr.jpg

― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

Umm, gabbneb, "Ms." is not inaccurate. "Miss" would be inaccurate. The whole point of "Ms." is to make women's titles not conditional on their marital status.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

uh, oh yeah, or something

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

that was like, other kids

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

robert taylor, you PIMP

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

Those darned bisexuals.

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Friday, 4 August 2006 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

These damn fly-by-night lipstick lesbians... it's a fact-checker's nightmare.

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 4 August 2006 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

It's silly, but it's also kind of shocking for the Times to get it so wrong for a pretty high-profile band. Ms. Tucker has never been "openly gay", and I think she has been openly straight for 8-9 years. Ms. Brownstein was pretty openly gay. Neither one ever talked about it much, though. I think what happened was that they were outed by an early press story that mentioned that they had been involved briefly, and they would confirm it if asked but not talk about it much (except that Tucker once said it was embarassing when her parents read the original story and hadn't known about the relationship).

― Vornado (Vornado), Friday, 4 August 2006 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

so write a letter to the editor

Thanks for the tip, you've very helpful.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 4 August 2006 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

well what do you expect us to do about it?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 4 August 2006 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

i sometimes begin to wonder if internet backlash has reached the point where there's a backlash against backlashing. "ohhhhh, hyper-nitpicking the times is sooooo late july!!!"

um.... um.

― marc h. (marc h.), Friday, 4 August 2006 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

i guess "backlash" probably isn't the right word, sorry

― marc h. (marc h.), Friday, 4 August 2006 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

This snafu will change the face of music writing forever...

― Anthony Lombardi (CCPO), Saturday, 5 August 2006 03:51 (eighteen years ago)

Mr. Tankian and Mr. Malakian, who write the songs, are openly gay and sometimes write politically charged lyrics.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Saturday, 5 August 2006 03:59 (eighteen years ago)

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