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Male rappers wearing a dress in one of their clips

Does anyone know any more examples of male rappers who wore a dress in one of their videos though they do not normally wear dresses? Mr. Key wore one in Future Posse Cut One Thousand and Promoe wore a dress in the videoclip for Don´t Hate The Player but I don't know any other examples. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 07:07, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Snoop Dogg (although this may be more of a kilt), Young Thug, Kanye West, Pitbull, and P-Diddy, ASAP Rocky, Cee-Lo (although Cee-Lo is more of a singer than a rapper). This article discusses the recent trend of males wearing clothing traditionally tagged for women, and also specifically cites Kanye and Young Thug. This article specifically names 11 rappers known to wear dresses or skirts in public. --Jayron32 16:24, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

@Jayron32: Awesome, thank you, there were many more than I expected! Interesting stuff. I especially like this picture of Mos Def. Cee-Lo is a singer, but he raps too (albeit badly), for example here on the Wake Up Show, so I would consider him both a singer and a rapper. Some of them seem to be making fashion statements, but with others the only explanation why they wore a dress is because they simply wanted to. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 20:28, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

(I must have messed something up but I found this gallery of (mostly) men proving theorems while wearing sarongs [1] :) SemanticMantis (talk) 14:27, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

I think Google has been tracking your browsing habits, and is trying to give results that are relevant to you. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 12:13, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

Honestly that was a blatant lie in the service of humor - I've known about the proofs-in-sarongs thing since way back in my undergrad days, and somehow the rappers in dresses question reminded me of it :) SemanticMantis (talk) 17:43, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

Doctor Who - Rose's frustration of the TARDIS translation circuit

In the Doctor Who episode The End of the World, why was Rose Tyler angry about the TARDIS translation circuit? When she says that the aliens speak English, the 9th Doctor explains that the TARDIS puts a telepathic field into her head and translates languages. However, she got furious and asks why he didn't ask? What did she mean? Ask what? I thought she'd be happy or pleased. Because it makes her understand what they're saying. Then she ask questions that he refused to answer, making him defensive and very angry. How very surprising. 86.169.72.176 (talk) 15:57, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Because the TARDIS changed her body without asking for her permission. Many people would feel that this would be an intrusion when they have not given explicit permission. Dismas|^(talk) 16:50, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

[EC] One possible explanation is that this particular (fictional) character regarded direct manipulation of her brain/mind without warning or permission to be an intrusion into her privacy and/or physical integrity.

However, on a broader note, questions like this betray a misunderstanding about the nature of art. A piece of fiction (like this) is a work of art, which means it may not have a definite cut-and-dried explanation for everything: rather, it may present deliberately ambiguous or inconclusive ideas so that the viewer can, by contributing their own interpretations, in effect collaborate with the artists (the scriptwriters, etc.) to produce a unique piece of art that may be different from the one in any other viewers' heads. In short, art is not passive, the viewer (reader, listener, etc.) needs to do some work as well, so you, 86.169.72.176, should be deciding the answer to questions like this for yourself. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 185.74.232.130 (talk) 17:00, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

I doubt if this was the reason, but any translation should absolutely be identified as such, because all translations are subject to error. For example, if you said you just ate a burrito, and it was translated as "I just ate a baby burro", you could see why that might cause some anger. StuRat (talk) 17:22, 11 May 2016 (UTC)