Lollapa-losers snub the ladies
THE LOLLAPALOOZA music festival hit a sour note with some fans Wednesday after posting a 2018 artist lineup sorely lacking female headliners.
The Chicago festival’s announcement for this year’s fourday event in August boasted Bruno Mars, The Weeknd, Jack White and Arctic Monkeys as its top acts. It wasn’t until the fourth line on the official poster that any female artists were mentioned — CHVRCHES, St. Vincent and Dua Lipa.
Fans took to Twitter to bash what they said was the fest’s underrepresentation of women — of the more than 80 artists on the poster only 18 are female.
“Wow, it’s like they didn’t know any female musicians big enough in the world to headline...” one user wrote. WOMEN are no longer being treated like possessions at a popular Disney attraction.
Magic Kingdom Park in Orlando reopened its “Pirates of the Caribbean” ride without one of its animatronic characters — a redheaded woman — being auctioned off to a band of pirates.
The character, Redd, was previously featured with a sign reading “Auction: take a wench for a bride.”
But Redd’s now one of the boys — she’s been changed to a pirate who just pillaged the town’s rum supply, according to the Disney parks blog.