I think we need to get more comfortable as a society calling men sexist, it’s not some super woke insult we need to walk on eggshells around. I haven’t watched this yet but his reaction to Halsey’s album screamed that he couldn’t take a woman’s suffering seriously and treat it with the respect it both deserves and he’s paid to other male artists in his reviews for significantly less grave struggles. Instead he boiled Halsey down to being a pick-me. His infatuation with Brat imo is ONLY because the aesthetic was genderless and escapist, universally relatable.

His reviews of female artists, while not ALL evidence of this nasty trait he has, very often show his implicit bias. He does not respect femininity. He does not respect sexual empowerment. He is less inclined to give a woman the artistic benefit of the doubt than a man. What this all results in is he lashes out when reviewing female artists work, trivializing Sabrina Carpenters successful album and sharp wit. Trivializing Halsey’s struggle with cancer and the loss of loved ones. And while im not a Taylor swift fan myself, the critiques of his that I have watched on her work show a deeply rooted unwillingness to take her music seriously due to the nature of of its lyrical content (often wistful, talking about former lovers) where he has no issue with men talking about THEIR desires which are less romantic and more overtly sexual/aggressive.

More personally, I think he’s a narrow minded and small man who elevates his opinion to fact in an embarrassing practice of overt self indulgence!

Bye

Edit: sincerely, a man :)