Anthony Fantano posted a "reacting to the Halsey review" video yesterday and boy, I forgot how bad it was... I didn't remember the details of it exactly, I just had a vague recollection it was evil and that it took me about a year and a half to recover from it traumatizing me for some reason I couldn't really remember... but I remember what it was now, he didn't just single out one questionable lyric from one of the best songs on the album, he quoted it in this sing song voice people do when they're trying to mock women and femininity, and he did it loudly... I didn't sleep much at all last night because I couldn't stop thinking about it, because that's what my youngest sister would do... she would just watch me and follow me around and imitate anything I would say in a voice like that... and I mean that wasn't the only bad part, it's more that was the kicking off for this crescendo of deeply, cleverly cutthroat attacks... like damn he really went for the throat. I'm kind of reliving the trauma all over again but I've done a lot of inner work so I do still feel detached from it in a way I couldn't once be... I definitely am glad her fans brought it back to light though, like I generally find fandoms toxic and silly but he really doesn't deserve to ever know peace for that
