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Ann Coulter on Nancy Pelosi

By ~LS~ On November 16, 2006 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Politics and tagged Tagged With: Ann Coulter, Gender, Politics, Race, Sexism

This Ann Coulter article really pissed me off. I really don’t like Ann Coulter — now there’s a surprise! In any event, in this article she is being critical of how people around the country are gushing because Nancy Pelosi will be the first woman speaker of the house. Her main point is that we should be past these politically correct milestones. Her secondary point, which is to show how ridiculous all the uproar is, demonstrates that Bush has appointed the most diverse cabinet ever. She calls it the Benetton-ad presidency. *eyeroll*

Now what exactly pisses me off about this article is really hard to articulate, so that’s why I’m blogging about it. For me, it goes back to Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas politics. Clarence Thomas was appointed by the right wing administration precisely because he was black, but his politics were neo_con as the authors in Race-ing Justice, [...]

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The Skeleton Key

By ~LS~ On August 17, 2005 · Add Comment · In Pop Culture, Race and Racism and tagged Tagged With: Gender, Louisiana, Movies, Pop Culture, Race

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Mira Nair

By ~LS~ On September 6, 2004 · Add Comment · In Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Gender, Movies, Pop Culture, Race

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Awful Plastic Surgery

By ~LS~ On August 5, 2004 · Add Comment · In Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Consumption, Gender, Pop Culture, Sexism

Watching: Hidalgo (DVD); The Village
Listening:> Audioslave (yes, again, dammit)

Steve has been surfing Awful Plastic Surgery for some time now. He told me about it because we just got the Rolling Stone with Lindsay Lohan and apparently she has fake boobs.

What’s frustrating about this site is that they make fun of people who have had plastic surgery to defy age, but then they make fun of the characteristics of aging as well. Example: Robert Redford – the “un-natural” who needs “more” plastic surgery. Also, they make fun of women who are presumably ugly who “need” plastic surgery but then they make fun of women who get too much plastic surgery. For example: Jennifer Coolidge (from Legally Blonde and American Pie) — She has had a “great boob job” but she needs more liposuction. It’s highly annoying. Some of the pics are heartbreaking too.

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Women See This One Color Differently

By ~LS~ On July 29, 2004 · Add Comment · In Feminism and tagged Tagged With: Gender, Science, Sexism

I’m blogging Netscape foo again. I don’t even no what to call this trivial crap but I find myself reading it over and over again. It’s like crackerjacks. I hate crackerjacks. I hate peanuts. I like the caramel pop corn, but it sticks in my teeth and irritates my gums, so it’s just not worth the hassle, right? And, here I go, popping another bit of crackerjacks in my mouth again. *crunch*

Anyway, according to this CNN/Netscape bit, women can see variations on red better than man can because women have double hits of a red-seeing gene. It amazes me how casually everyone is about genetics. This article reports this red-seeing gene as a fait accomplis and never once questions the causal, teleological relationship between gene and manifestation. It even goes so far as to attribute this gene’s presence to CAVEWOMAN days when women foraged for berries.

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Catwoman (2004)

By ~LS~ On July 29, 2004 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Gender, Movies, Pop Culture, Sexism

The upshot of Cynthia Fuchs’ review of Catwoman:

The women on either side of the imaginary moral divide are both gorgeous and potent, both capable of cruel violence, and both dedicated to their own desires. And both understand themselves as victims of masculine oppression. The stakes of their conflict have to do with a derivative, Joker-style gimmick in the toxic makeup (as the deadmeat doctor who cooks up the cream puts it, “I can’t live with turning people into monsters”). Even the final showdown between Laurel and Catwoman is staged so they throw each other through giant images of beautiful models. Got it: the beauty industry is bad. But if it can help you look like Berry or Stone, or even better, pay you like it pays them, well, its faults might be intermittently overlooked.

Nice point, huh.

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