IVIV (12): Yakkin' Broads
rich
richard.romeo at gmail.com
Sun Nov 1 23:44:43 CST 2009
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 11:50 AM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Layer two: an accurate portrayal of a misogynist viewpoint of the day. Here's the problem, though. There's nothing historical about the comment. Bill Maher, whose viewpoints are often worth listening to, has a standard misogynist riff running through his routines -- being driven crazy by yakking females is a big part of this.
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I got tired of Maher's self-important bluster pretty quick--he forgot
he's a comedian--another millionaire, pot smoking, banging playboy
bunnies, voice of the people who he not too secretly despises. maybe a
sign of doing too much coke, who knows
He's mostly a progressive, and it only gets worse as you move
rightward. The image of women in films, TV and the news is as bad or
even worse than it's ever been.
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just a note in the news about how the portrayal of violence against
women on TV is practically at its worst
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> Layer three: Pynchon's depiction of women in IV.
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on the whole its downright awful. that alice thinks IV is Pynchon's
most feminist work must be a joke--what because of more women getting
head than giving--is that the criteria we're using--strictly the
sexual?--that's gotta be another joke.
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> The endless parade of mini-skirted bimbos starts to get really boring after a while. There's really zero even knee-jerk social commentary to be gleaned from it about "(sob) the oppression of women." For those of you who've seen the TV show Madmen, about the advertising business in the early '60s, the show does a helluva better job of showing us the roots of the rebirth of feminism in the 70s.
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All of Madmen's writers are women.
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