Sarcasm?

What pray tell are you "saying" here?

I thought it was funny and realistic. I got the sense Grandpa will talk for hours on end about his latest creation, and the son was admitting that he isn't as interested in it as his dad is. That's just being a normal person, imo.

No, they weren't—they were sort of roommates after college. Here's a 2009 interview with Wiener where he describes it in a very unclear manner. It's also interesting (and by "interesting" I mean petty; he's also clearly missing the point of the Daily Show and the Colbert Report) to read his rationale for why he brands…

BECAUSE TAXPAYERS! Duh.

Cheers. :)

I pretty much agree with everything you've said. I didn't expect to get so many replies, and I'm sorry if my comment derailed your thread.

I don't disagree with you.

Your issue with everything I've said seems to be that because whiteness is considered the dominant experience, it doesn't have to be labeled. I cannot disagree with that. It seems like you are engaging with me with the express purpose of having a fight, and I'm not at all interested in that. I'd rather have a…

I would say the same to you. Nothing I said was a defense of the woman in the video—I wasn't talking about her at all, or her interaction with the woman of color. And I think it's pretty unfair to take a general statement (which is in no way a fiction—there is tons of literature written by men and women about the…

I don't think we disagree at all. I agree, all women have the capacity to be labeled "crazy," and women of color (especially Black women) are often labeled as "angry" even if a white woman behaves similarly. But I would say that an angry white women is pretty much relegated to "crazy" status, for not conforming to…

Yeah, no. I'm not defending this lady, at all. Why is it impossible to talk about both? It is most definitely a trope that exists—it's in countless literature going back to at least the 18th century, in England and America—and I'm not sure why bringing it up is so inherently offensive to you.

I loathe Dunham, but you're seriously misreading her comments (or you're just seeing what you'd like to see in them). Please pinpoint exactly how what she said supports an "infantilization" of women? She isn't claiming that this woman engaged with Wiener against her will, or that she was in some way powerless to his…

But...31 is not old, and long hair is not necessarily "young."

Thanks, you made the point I was trying to make in a much more eloquent fashion. Your last paragraph is specifically what I'm talking about.

Huh. I'm kind of surprised by this analysis, considering this is a feminist blog. I mean, white women I would argue are most definitely marginalized in all of those areas if they are too loud, too opinionated, too "masculine"—and the dominant criticism and means of invalidating those women is through the "crazy"…

It might be a "crazy woman" trope, but if you're talking about it from a racial lens, we're most definitely talking about "crazy white women," just like the bulk of "Western" thought is by and large white and male. I wasn't discounting the poster's point about angry women of color, I was just disagreeing that white…

There might not be an "angry white woman" trope, but there is most definitely a "crazy white woman" trope that goes back hundreds of years and is represented all over the place, from literature to film to popular culture.

Sounds like a more delicious version of the egg salad, yes. :)