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In her One Week One Band series on Blink, writer Rikki Reynolds pointed out that the video for "Josie"—a song about the perfect punk-rock girlfriend—fixated on male relationships, with a. A hater wrote to Blink singer/guitarist Matt Skiba on Instagram last week: “ur gay.” Skiba responded, “Thanks for taking time out of what must be a very busy schedule for little old me. Blink "I'm Gay" the song at the end always makes me laugh***1st song: stay together for the kids******The second song is "Down",AND YESS!!!!!!!!!

I'M CRA. To this end, the band has also been examined through a homosocial lens, with the band's internal drama and the friendship between DeLonge and Hoppus scrutinized in this light: "A queer reading of Blink may almost be too obvious to make," admitted Spencer Kornhaber of The Atlantic, "but playing with and panicking at the idea of being gay was. As a queer Blink fan hell yeah.

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K votes, 26 comments. M subscribers in the lgbt community. A safe space for GSRM (Gender, Sexual, and Romantic Minority) folk to discuss their. I would like to dedicate this post to my life, my love, and my happiness: the blink podcast.

Is it really that hard to understand why blink decided to do the exact same thing? Again, as David points out, blink were deliberately juvenile, routinely misogynistic, and were one of the biggest purveyors of gay panic humor. I get the same feeling listening to the most objectionable blink songs as I get from listening to the oft-misogynistic-and-homophobic debut record of the Adolescents, or from the spiky, self-pitying woe-is-me-for-I-have-been-scorned-by-the-females early work of the Descendents.

In fact, one of the most redeeming or rather, mitigating aspects of their constant shitty dudeliness is the fact that the joke is constantly, self-consciously so, more on them than it is on the Girls or the Gays. It seems that every joke about being gay is self-directed, so ever-presently as to become a sort of meta-commentary on straight male homophobia in a similar way as the Jackass ouvre the Jackass boys have gone on record a few times saying that the goal of their constant, jokey homoeroticism is both to antagonize heteronormativity and to combat homophobia.

If the goal of their humor was to demean gay people, it failed, because it was all principally about demeaning themselves. Does that make sense? Eventually, the Nice Guy archetype metastasized even further into the incel. The thing that set blink apart from this duality both sides of which are misogynist in their own unique ways is their synthesis of the two attitudes, as well as a rejection of much of the trappings of both.

In this way, they had evolved from the gross, blame-shifting attitude of their most important forbear, the Descendents. If you were on Tumblr in , you know the type: they listened to Yung Lean and DMed girls about how sad they were, hoping to get a pity-fuck or maybe even just a crumb of titty. However, I do not think it is entirely fair to blame blink for this, since the issues they expressed with their romantic endeavors always took real accountability for their shortcomings.

Long live blink And for his part, Mark is fantastic here, offering bubbly bass fills and distinctive melodies. Tom also changes up his playing style, morphing more into a big, immediately recognizable nursery-rhyme riff machine that forgoes the more technical or aggressive aspects of his earlier sound for a sticky, anthemic quality.

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