{"id":91693,"date":"2023-08-06T21:17:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T04:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91693"},"modified":"2023-08-06T21:17:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T04:17:46","slug":"lizzo-goes-bananas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/08\/06\/lizzo-goes-bananas\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizzo Goes Bananas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then there\u2019s <strong>Lizzo<\/strong>.&nbsp; And, yes, I do know who Lizzo is.&nbsp; Anyone who can play the flute while twerking in a bathing suit onstage is my kinda gal.&nbsp; Alas, Lizzo is in the news for all the wrong reasons.&nbsp; It\u2019s no surprise that she\u2019s a big girl.&nbsp; Hell, she called her reality show <strong><em>Watch Out for the Big Grrrls<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Three of her backup dancers (two of whom were vets of the reality show) are suing her for sexual harassment, assault, discrimination and fostering what is called a \u201chostile work environment\u201d.&nbsp; The part that grabbed me was the accusation that the dancers were forced to attend and participate in sex shows in Amsterdam.&nbsp; Allegedly, Lizzo pressured them to go with her \u2013 I guess saying \u201cThanks, but no thanks\u201d was not an option.&nbsp; Let me quote some of the suit\u2019s more colorful prose: \u201cLizzo began inviting cast members to take turns touching the nude performers, catching dildos launched from the performers\u2019 vaginas, and eating bananas protruding from the performers\u2019 vaginas.\u201d&nbsp; Not only does this sound unappetizing, it also sounds unhygienic.&nbsp; The suit claims that Lizzo was \u201crobbing them of the choice not to participate.\u201d&nbsp; Robbed?&nbsp; At banana point?&nbsp; So, the dancers didn\u2019t feel comfortable saying no, but now feel comfortable suing?&nbsp; Could it be that they didn\u2019t want to rock the boat while on the payroll, but now that they\u2019ve cashed the checks, they\u2019re looking to cash in?&nbsp; I\u2019m just asking\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then there\u2019s Lizzo.&nbsp; And, yes, I do know who Lizzo is.&nbsp; Anyone who can play the flute while twerking in a bathing suit onstage is my kinda gal.&nbsp; Alas, Lizzo is in the news for all the wrong reasons.&nbsp; It\u2019s no surprise that she\u2019s a big girl.&nbsp; Hell, she called her reality show Watch Out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91694,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91693\/revisions\/91694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}