Les Meufs sont chics.
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When they came out as “ashamed,” that W was from Texas, I wanted a T-shirt that said “Proud to be Ashamed.”
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I’ve always loved the Dixie Chicks, and the name change—as silly as it is—makes me love them all the more.
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I think they shoulda gone with “The WONABees”*
*War of Northern Aggression
plus bees, cuz bees are cool
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I think they should have stayed “The Dixie Chicks.”
It says they’re women from the South.
And nothing else.
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ANd tHis. EraSing amerIca culture. NexT aUnt JemimA in a fuscia PanT suiT
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They could just go go see the president.
Then keep their name, change the spelling
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Um, in the sense used in the song “Not Ready to Make Nice,” which still gives me shivers to this day in sheer enormity of the gigantic middle finger fuck you they sent to their entire former fan base when they put it out, this is the exact opposite of being ready to make nice.
This is going to trigger yet another round of death threats and stalking and true to form, they’re there for it.
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Yay! They dropped the racist part of their band name and kept the sexist part.
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‘The Swelter States’
‘The Lower Third Lard Users’
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We might be standing in this photo but we SURE AS HELL AREN’T STANDING FOR THIS. I’m embarrassed. I’m heartbroken. I’m DISGUSTED. @ScrapYardFP I will never be associated with your organization again. BLACK LIVES MATTER. The tone deafness on this is UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/5jSNipTFLd
— Haylie McCleney (@hayliemac8) June 23, 2020
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I gotta boogie, but they could have explained the Dixie Chicks name origin (its from a Little Feat song) and got a ‘hall pass’.
However, they likely said ‘f it’ and that’s that.
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Yeah, the Mason-Dixon line (whence “Dixie”) predated the Civil War by nearly a century. The connotations re slavery came later, as did the anti-slavery connotation of “yankee.”
Lady Antebellum, on the other hand, I’ve always thought was an incredibly offensive name.
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It was so cool and they weathered that storm with such style and class.
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Seems like women are entitled to reclaim and own the word, as other oppressed groups have reclaimed and owned words that had been used by others to degrade them. Judging them for their autonomous choice of how to describe themselves is sexist itself, no?
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Antebellum is a Latin word meaning before war.
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The persistent rumor that “The South will rise again” seems to be somewhat overrated.
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Yeah, but in context, it was always pretty clear that it meant “Before the War (of Yankee Aggression, when everything that was good and right went gone with the wind).”
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It’s often used to mean the pre-Civil War South, but that is a shorthand way to refer to an era that encompasses more than half of America’s existence.
How is that offensive?
Yeah, in my mind “Dixie” refers generally to the southern part of the US, whereas “antebellum” specifically refers to the pre-Civil War south (i.e., the era of slavery).
Your milage may vary, of course.
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