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Comment on Adam’s Return by Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:23:04 +0000

Get your facts straight. Lambert doesn’t just play dress up. He also designed all costumes for his AMA performance.

Comment on Adam’s Return by StinkyLulu (aka BrianH)

StinkyLulu (aka BrianH) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:44:21 +0000

nicely done, sir.

Comment on Adam’s Return by Ernest Hardy

Ernest Hardy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:40:55 +0000

Good stuff. I especially liked this part:

“And then I had to hand it to him, not for showing me something that was particularly edgy or radical (it wasn’t), but for reminding me how intimidated we’ve all become by our reactionary culture. His simple throw-back image shows us how we need to liberate ourselves, not from our own particular hang ups, but from the self-censoring positions we take whenever we defer to the broader society’s hang-ups.”

And I really dug the dig at gay marriage.

Comment on Match Points? by Masculine Femininities Issue 3 « Masculine Femininities Zine

Masculine Femininities Issue 3 « Masculine Femininities Zine — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:21:37 +0000

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Comment on The Unforgivable Transgression of Being Caster Semenya by Masculine Femininities Issue 3 « Masculine Femininities Zine

Masculine Femininities Issue 3 « Masculine Femininities Zine — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:20:53 +0000

[...] need to add their two cents to the fray. An article I read wanted to claim Semenya in the realm of queer and trans identity and even went so far as to say that the comparison made by the South African Government between [...]

Comment on On Becoming Alien – District 9 by Ben Seeman

Ben Seeman — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:42:58 +0000

You may want to watch it a second time and consider that Wikus while being Afrikaans is also a mid level employee caught up in events beyond his control and understanding. I think it was rather brave of the director to portray him betraying Christopher Johnson twice.

Sure the buddy cop thing is there but also Kafka and Brazil. There are actually alot of simalarities with Brazil mainly a socially connected promotion leads to an easy assignment going snafu and ruining the life of the hapless individual whose friends and family melt away.

I think it is a narrow view to consider this hetero normative when the significant other could have been any kind of person. The message of love and dedication translates across race and gender.

I also don’t understand how portraying a criminal gang somehow becomes a racist statement on all Africans. We see plenty of normal Africans. No where in this movie does it imply that all Nigerians are blood thirsty scum. Woye Solinka and Ken Saro-Wiwa are not manning the cat food counter. The criminals are criminals. They are bad guys because of their actions not tier national origin.

This film is about becoming the other. Watch it again and see what the director and the actors are trying to do. There are alot of subtleties in this film that are not readily apparent.

Good luck and enjoy.

Comment on A Note from the Unicorns: A Cultural Studies PhD Program responds to Michael Berube by The Death of the University, Cultural Studies and Unicorns (not necessarily in that order) « Kevin Karpiak’s Blog

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:34:27 +0000

[...] “… you might as well be asking about the carbon footprint of unicorns.” A group of cultural studies graduate students at UC Davis have actually taken this one up. [...]

Comment on The Unforgivable Transgression of Being Caster Semenya by Soheila Ghaussy

Soheila Ghaussy — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:08:01 +0000

Gender and sex are not as simple as often made out to be, with sex being the physical, “natural” and immutable condition of the body and “gender” the social role that may (or may not) be associated with the sexed body in a correlative way — one the biological; the other the cultural definition of how we divide humans into the two categories of men and women. Sex is, in itself, a “condition” of culture, ad as malleable as gender roles. Who, for example, gets to define which hormones are “male” and which “female”? And what percentage of them in which body defines the appropriate sex? Surely, a cultural decision… Semenya’s case reminds me of the Olympic controversy around Maria Patino’s unruly body 20 years ago, and our bullying, binary categories of gender, still well-alive and kicking `til it hurts. Patino was, despite a “clearly” female-sexed body, deemed a “man” after chromosomal tests showed that she had XY chromosomes. She neither “looked like a man” nor felt herself to be anything other than a woman, but the decision to test her (a compulsory test performed on all athletes) ruined her career. It didn’t matter that she had all the “primary markers” of the female body. Her chromosomes told us the supposedly True tale: She was a “man”. Again, is this not a cultural decision? It’s time we let “nature” be and start looking at sexes as plural and diverse. We were able to do so with gender (once thought to “naturally” correlate with sex). Can we not conceive of a world with many sexes, learn to see them and accept them outside of the narrow “male” and “female” binary?

Comment on On Becoming Alien – District 9 by Silly me

Silly me — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:08:55 +0000

I haven’t seen this movie, but I do have to say that if you are looking for non-humans to support, then True Blood sounds like more fun.

God hates fangs.

Comment on Rx for Death Panels by unconvinced

unconvinced — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:51:29 +0000

“Obama (sadly) doesn’t want to make the U.S. more socialist.”

That seems a silly statement. Working to create socialized medicine is a very socialist act, be that a good or bad thing–how can one say otherwise?

Also, this article is misleading in that it addresses the Obama-cum-Joker as an image designed for a political agenda; in truth, it wasn’t (1). One person, the man you cited, created the image for kicks, and then someone appropriated it for his/her own political reasons by throwing “Socialism” at the bottom if it. To attribute this political meme to one person oversimplifies the issue of the semiotic analysis and also the case for authorship. If it helps your cause to reduce this to a simple act of accidental terrorism, borne of boredom, created by an “ignoramus,” then fine, I guess. But I feel that this only shows how trigger-happy the left has become at identifying any criticism of the president as racist. When the Democrats bitched for eight years (rightfully) because of the abuse the nation took from the Dubya regime, it was “patriotic” and a responsible use of the freedom of speech; when people tear down The One, it’s racial and it’s blasphemy. It’s also painfully essentialistic.

1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/18/obama-joker-image-creator