What happened is still a true story, one that is indicative of the pervasiveness of racism, and how no part of your life is ever truly free from it. Privilege only reaches so far. I suppose I am grateful, in a twisted way, that this pathetic man was in the Dallas Forth Worth airport to remind me.
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Darmirra Brunson, not currently on SNL. Okay, did you watch the Kerry Washington cold open? What did you think?
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Nancy Wake, BAMF:
“It was well-acted but in parts it was extremely stupid,” she said. “At one stage they had me cooking eggs and bacon to feed the men. For goodness’ sake, did the Allies parachute me into France to fry eggs and bacon for the men? There wasn’t an egg to be had for love nor money. Even if there had been, why would I be frying it? I had men to do that sort of thing.”
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Lord knows, it would be the first time.
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The thing that those The Hills Have Eyes movies are about.
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Oh, what? Planes with skydivers in them collided? Everyone was fine? Makes sense.
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Some people are still pulling for Rob Ford, and they’re on Twitter.
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I have nothing intelligent to say about the SNL cold open because I’m too distracted by Kerry Washington’s beauty, which I assume was their goal.
I just watched her monologue … how adorable is she? She wins everything.
i read about Sawney Bean in the Hamlyn Book of Horror (which has the best dustjacket ever: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mZ7HuwmmAPQ/T_IbLvhNW5I… ) when I was probably far too young to be reading such things, and the story scarred me for life. Still gives me the creeps now.
PSA: beware of the comments on Roxane’s post. I mean, it’s about racism and it’s on Salon, but still. just a heads up.
Ughhh WHAT is the DEAL with Salon commenters? They’re nearly worse than my local news channel’s site. I love Roxane’s writing, and always hope for thoughtful discussion of her pieces… I always have to remind myself not to scroll down (well, I do that on a lot of websites these days, but still)
i got to the one where someone just outright decided she made the whole thing up, and called it a day.
I think the discussion of Nancy Wake’s feelings about how she was portrayed in filmic* biography is the most perfect illustration of sexism in modern cinema that I have ever encountered.
*Is filmic a word? I typed it and then I liked it so much I had to leave it there even though I don’t think it is.
“She was too busy killing Nazis for amorous entanglements, she said.”
Like how in every movie ever, the conventionally-attractive protagonists take a break for sexytimes in the midst of fighting monsters/aliens/enemy soldiers/whatever? I’ve never really been in a life-or-death situation myself, but I imagine that would be pretty low on my priority list too…
Seriously. My grandfather fought in the Pacific during WWII, and always said they were too scared to even curse (his main problem with movies like Saving Private Ryan). If you’re too scared/busy to swear (and I swear worse than he did, and he was a sailor), you’re probably too scared/busy for sexytimes. Just a thought.
“I had men to do that sort of thing” !!!!!!!!! Just once I’d like an occasion to say this and have it be true and then I can die a happy misandrist.
I think I’m going to make it my new mission to get to a place where I can say this. I want to be Nancy Wake when I grow up – what a woman.
This was pretty great too:
“Nancy recalled later in life that her parachute had snagged in a tree. The French resistance fighter who freed her said he wished all trees bore ‘such beautiful fruit’. Nancy retorted: ‘Don’t give me that French shit.'”
melodramatic infomercial fuckups <3 <3 <3
“Nancy recalled later in life that her parachute had snagged in a tree. The French resistance fighter who freed her said he wished all trees bore “such beautiful fruit”. Nancy retorted: “Don’t give me that French shit.””
Sweet, sweet misandry/resistance to bad pickup lines no matter the occasion.
Personally my favorite infomercial music video is this one.
Yeah, but the one in the post gets total props for including the World’s Most Incompetent Car-Washer at :35.
“Okay, did you watch the Kerry Washington cold open? What did you think?”
Acknowledging the problem is not FIXING the problem, but nice try SNL. 😛
HOLD UP that skydiving thing actually happened? I thought Mallory was just tweeting some fun stream-of-consciousness stuff of her own invention!
Yeah, but the one in the post gets total props for including the World's Most Incompetent Car-Washer at :35.
Re: killer clans, see also the American version, the Bloody Benders, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Benders.