John Mayer and other overrated white guys

Yes, John Mayer can play the guitar. He’s also a smug, self-satisfied pseudointellectual. Why do we still over men who are buying into their own bullshit?

Me at age 16 in 2002, unimpressed by the pretentiousness of John Mayer’s hit song “No such thing.”

I was 16 years old in the spring of 2002. It was a rough time to be alive, with 9/11 blindsiding us during my sophomore year of high school. But more importantly for the topic of this post, it was a rough time to be a girl. After the…