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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
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I hope no one ever ever bails you out of jail.
You need to be ignored. You a Pulitzer prize.
You always get too drunk on 7- Up and burp.
You eat Kentuckians, Floridians, and stray cat.
You consume 3- wheel bikes, and sing a ABC?
You need to be heard burping catsup backwards.
I hope you get a Toll Fee for inferior bogs awards.
"And when the Obama girls enter politics you will declare a good and noble thing. Of course you know you will. Just saying.... Now delete this post.-- Glenn Greenwald is a coward
That's sad on so many levels.
We have some individuals who are making it difficult for Glenn to do his job and police the UT comments area. I found the latest "handle" calling Glenn a coward to be the topper.
I request that those who have the time and temperament to moderate this area to e-mail Glenn and offer your volunteer services. If he saw that several people with their head on straight would be willing to moderate --- I think he might ask Salon if it were possible to give that ability for only one comment area (UT) to "outsiders".
Me? I do not have the time, nor the temperament: but many here do.
Glenn may say "hell no" to the idea or Salon might say it is not possible: but at least e-mail Glenn as offer if you would be willing to help.
(a few might be willing just to delete a few posts by me; and that would be OK by me)
Please offer to help.
away from his computer slowly.
You obviously got that star next to your name in the comments section because you know a Kennedy. Where will this madness end?
;>
Has an old loony bird
Crafted a new alias
From which to hide behind
And sqawk?
Today's young American women are brought up with a sense of entitlement, even of divinity, in my opinion, and yes Disney and all the other agents of non-sense and fantasy do play a part.
I think the sense of entitlement evinced by Americans is a cross-gender phenomenon.
Crass merchandising aside, I have to say that I actually appreciate the fact that Disney has portrayed females as actually something other than just "princesses". I just did a little digging. Here are the top Disney female characters, and a little synopsis from Wiki about each one's attributes:
Pocahontas – Pocahontas is displayed as a free spirited, noble, and highly spiritual young woman. She displays wisdom beyond her years and offers kindness and guidance to those around her. She loves adventure and nature.
Jasmine – Jasmine is the daughter of the wealthy Sultan of Agrabah. She is shown to be brave, intelligent, strong, independent, fiery, and charitable. She can also be quite cunning.Cinderella - a classic folk tale myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward.
Mulan - Disney's Mulan [is] a tomboy daughter of a respected veteran, somewhat troubled by being the "sophisticated lady" her society expects her to be.
Belle - Belle is a nonconformist for her time in many ways. The most pronounced is her love of books and knowledge, which the townspeople find odd for a woman. Gaston says to her at one point, "It's not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting ideas, and thinking...". Belle also does not care about appearances, whether they pertain to herself or anyone else.
Esmeralda - Esmeralda is a gypsy who uses her talents in dancing to earn a living. She has a strong sense of justice, and stands up for what she believes in...This same principled, strong attitude surfaces again when, rather than save herself from the pyre and consent to serve Frollo (whom she despises), she refuses and spits in his face. She is shown as being kind and non judgemental; along with having a high emotional intelligence in dealing with people.
Ariel - Ariel is the youngest of King Triton's seven daughters. She is shown as being adventurous and curious about the world of humans, a fascination which angers her father ...
As I said, the merchandising can get offensive, but if I had a daughter, I think I could do much worse than for her to take to heart the message espoused by Disney's princesses, which seems to be as far from nepotism and entitlement as one can get in a cartoon character.
I once had an Egyptian-born Princeton professor who shook the hand of Albert Einstein. Upon hearing this, I asked him to shake hands. He laughed, did, and still I have no star next to my name and rather dim prospects for political office.
It was some time before I washed that hand and, even then, only because it was damaging my dating prospects.
if I run into any guys proclaiming themselves Princess I'll be sure to tell them how absurd I think they are.
LOL!
I did a myspace people search of the term Princess and there were over 8 million examples, far too many for my taste.
I don't use myspace. I'm curious about the numbers associated with "King" and "Queen". Would you mind looking please? Thanks.
Glenn's looking at this from the wrong perspective by addressing this as some sort of "new threat" due to the media. The problem he's talking about is part of our most basic psychological/sociological tendencies, and no "professor of American Constitutional & Legal History" is needed to figure it out. Humans like what is familiar, even if the familiar is inferior. Imagine if Sylvester Stallone ran in the next CA governor election against a Nobel prize winning economist with bad teeth and a strange-sounding last name. We all no who would win. So long as the chimps we share 98% of our DNA with attack and cannibalize chimps from unfamiliar packs, I suspect our electoral behavior should be unsurprising.
Not sure I got your point. The only character therein described that will not be a beneficiary of nepotism is the gypsy. Your point is lost, these are only variant themes on the princess legend, above all things, the message sent to young girls is that the only thing that makes your life meaningful is to be a member of an important family.
Likewise to boys, that the only thing that will garner you attention and success is to be a iconoclastic usurper. Neither message is very useful to children in their school years.
And not that I want to get in a big debate about the social impact of Disney films. Please don't enable my intellectual wankery by responding to this.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
