Floozy with an Uzi , Army without a cook

[Joseph Tracy]

Sexiness can be pretty dangerous,  and I think she may be disarming  
her audience while remaining fully armed herself, with a trans -am  
for a getaway. She is the underground of the lefts and right's  
imagination,dangerous or just entertaining?  The whole ninja army of  
feminists seems to me to be a one dimensional fantasy of dangerous  
opposition from the left which still reigned supreme under Reagan.    
Remember Reagan talking about the dangers posed by NIcaragua , a mere  
hop skip and a jump across Honduras Guatemala and Mexico to Invade  
Texas.  Pynchon imagines the fantasy Ninja army to show how silly the  
fear was (albeit incredibly dangerous, costly, and destructive: star  
wars el salvador, nicaragua,), while at the same time showing how  
crushing the political left and especially the small militant  
political left only rerouted the culture wars  to gender issues,  
alternative information technologies, and other areas of cultural  
warfare.    The cook thing was funny too, contrasting the actual self  
reliance and survival skills of a poor 14 year old Hippie( not  
gourmet, but food), with the coddled and fed rebellion of the upper  
middle class zen retreat set.  Its cartoonery but funny and true in  
the sense of theory being too often  more appealing to the over- 
educated than doable action.
On the other hand DL does represent the real power of consistent  
discipline.  She may not be "pure" but she resists, actively and  
aggressively.  Her restraint is a measure of her self control and her  
unwillingness to mirror the methods and bad karma of the fascists/ 
cultural totalitarians. She has helped keep intact a history she did  
not inherit with her mothers milk but which she knows the value of.   
I think P may be using her as a stand in for all the disciplined  
artists, writers, workers, inventors, political leaders etc. who keep  
on keeping on and form the foundations of an alternative culture.
On Jan 15, 2009, at 3:29 PM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> We've met DL in the powder room, and she comes across as tough,  
> intelligent and honest.  Now, superimposed on her, is the media  
> image of a tough woman, and it's all about sexiness:
>
> The Floozy with an Uzi and a Trans-Am is a media-feminist, a proto- 
> feminist because she carries a gun, AND she's a hot babe.  If we  
> can groove to the sight of a sexy chick with a gun, we must (by  
> inference) be feminist.
>
> Laura