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We're not allowed to laugh at this? Really? I thought it was hilarious and cathartic. This girl is not "a little dumb" or "if not stupid, very ignorant," or whatever. This girl redefines ignorance -- and her appearance on Today wasn't much better. And her confidence that the gibberish she's uttering is satisfactory makes her positively Dubyan.
Is there really a prevalent misogynistic stereotype that women -- especially pretty women -- don't know how to say "Iraq?" Or speak intelligibly in their native tongue? Surely not.
The brain-dead youth culture of "My Super Sweet Sixteen" and "The Real World" is a fucking poison that we've all been breathing for an impossibly long time. When is it going to be okay for us to stigmatize stupidity and ignorance again?
I'm sorry, but after six years of Bush -- all of this oppressive anti-intellectualism -- I'm ready to laugh my bitter ass off at the stupid and ignorant (as they laugh their way to the bank). In the battle for America's brain, the good guys* lost the war a long way back; leave us our gallows humor, at least.
* (I'm sure I'll get called out for "good guys," but what's the alternative? "Good women?" Is that colloquial?)
