Thank you for your eloquent and thoughtful response, and for risking it in the first place. Others here have tried to express similar sentiments and been called hateful, ignorant, and racist. Thank you for understanding that this is a more complex and nuanced discussion than "love is colorblind". The vitriol this…
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Thank god its not just me. I think these pictures are heinous. It's like someone's mistaken idea of a 70's Europorn shoot. I expect to hear someone breathily cooing "Emmanuelle" while Serge Gainsbourg slurs something French in the background. Normally I run to buy the Hollywood issue of VF, but this shit? …
He's a gifted, evocative writer, which is no surprise. But he needed a judicious and firm editor, which clearly did not happen.
That was my thought as well. I don't know enough specifics about what documentation immigrants would have completed at that time, but I'm not familiar with a "Brown" designation, and histories on the construction of whiteness in the US certainly suggest the inclusion process for most Mediterranean peoples would have…
I agree with you to some extent, and I'm not interested in Oppression Olympics. But despite the very real prejudice and discrimination faced by those European ethnic groups (and the language aimed at them sounds alarming like the language used against Mexican immigrants today, for example, about over-reproduction,…
That's alright, and sorry if I sounded snappish. It just bugs me that so few people know that Poles, Italians, Greeks and other European ethnic groups weren't always considered white and fought very hard for inclusion because they saw very clearly the benefits of white privilege. These are the same people who often…
I didn't say anything about the 1850's; you might want to direct your response to someone who did.
I'm sure Italian Americans would be really surprised to learn they aren't white, especially when they fought so hard to become so. You might want to read WOP: A Documentary History of Anti-Italian Discrimination by Salvatore J. LaGumina, to find out a bit more on this. And by the way, Carlos Leon is not Rocco's…
I suffer from this as well. I find him both insufferable and irresistible. I'm reading his autobiography and every other stream-of-consciousness paragraph I'm like, "Da fuck are you talking about?" yet I can't put it down. I'm a black woman who has had to reconcile my love for him and the Godlike presence of the…
I love J Law, but I thought she was basically doing a variation on her role in SLP, a film in which she was much more effective. Her character in AH seemed tacked on to give her something to do, not necessary to the storyline, and I found myself annoyed whenever she was onscreen. That said, I loved the film, but I…
No, I don't think you meant that at all. I was just making a larger point, especially since a lot of the conservative commentary on this incident has focused on petty jabs at her lisp.
She has always had a lisp. And her critics LOVE to trash her for it. It's exacerbated by emotion, but I love the fact that as an academic and public intellectual, every week she contradicts the notion that people with speech or language impairments are stupid or ignorant and that a pleasant speaking voice…
Romney's no longer a candidate for anything. He's no longer an elected official. So what was even the point of releasing this photo, not just privately to friends and family, but to the world through social media? It's not criticism of the child or his parents to question the motives of the paterfamilias in…
Our pug had booties that make him act like he's paralyzed. He refuses to wear them, then we keep having to stop and massage and wipe his pads because he starts limping. That balm sounds like a great idea for him.
Thank you! I'm proud of my ability to recognize even seemingly obscure SYTYCD alums, like Season 6 Top 20 finalist Phillip Attmore tap dancing up a storm on Broadway as we speak in After Midnight. Dominic is considerably better-known and has had plenty of exposure on TV and in film as well as online since his…
I hate to be "that person", but Pinky starred the very white Jeanne Crain. Ava Gardner played Julie Laverne, a role that would have been more appropriate for Lena Horne, who wanted it, in MGM's remake of Showboat. I am an old with a degree in media and film history (because I can't decide what I want to be when I…
The front legs look a bit uncomfortable, but I did see the other pics where he looks a little less, "Aw, Mom!" But the pic of him sleeping after taking the costume off was the best, because he looked so peaceful.
Oh, Bean! He makes my life daily with his sweet face. But he doesn't look too thrilled about his costume...
You are lazy. THERE ARE LINKS ALL OVER THIS PAGE. Call me a bully if you like. If you think someone is a bully for expecting you to be intelligent enough to read for yourself and conduct your own searches, that says a lot more about you than it does about me. You sound like a child who complains that he can't find…
I wasn't familiar with this book, and for an Anglophile still a bit mired in her Britpop/shoegaze past, this sounds like must reading. It wasn't meant for me, but thanks for the suggestion!