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Lisa Fary's earliest influences are Princess Leia, Rainbow Bright, Astronaut Barbie, and her 6th grade teacher, Ms. Palmer. She's angry that it's 2011 and she still doesn't have a hovercraft, but will accept a jetpack as consolation. That jetpack had better be pink with a rhinestone monogram. 34 Comments
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I actually worked at a newspaper during the last presidential election, and when I started writing about my opinion in local races the old people got completely up in arms about it. When one of our representatives wrote a letter basically patting me on the head and saying that young people just don’t get it…well, he didn’t win his re-election bid the next year.
Don’t insult young people. There’s more of them and they know how to work whatever system they’re thrown at.
Oh, stop being such a “stinker.”
(But seriously, she will never go away. She’s like that girl in The Ring. She never sleeps.)
And besides, blogging in PJs is cool. Makes me feel like I’m fighting the system.
Armchair psychoanalysis: She’s still pissing you off because you want her to go away, and she just won’t. You expected her to melt in to the background again as soon as they lost the election (I did too) and it turns out that she’s actually kind of a major player in the “New” Republican Party.
I know.
I read the other day that something like 64% of polled Republicans support her running in 2012. That headline may as well have read “64% of Polled Republicans are Idiots”.
No one has yet told her that her 15 minutes are up. I
would recommend you send her a note informing her via
St.Bernard Dog up to Alaska.
Maybe Russia can put a sign out. Then she could see it from her house.
Cab Calloway was more popular than Louis Armstrong, even though Armstrong was a much better, much more important musician. Why is that?
‘Cuz he was lighter skinned and skinny enough that he didn’t intimidate white audiences. The fact that he was funnier and had straight hair didn’t hurt any either.
Neither Professor Calloway nor our President Elect accurately depict the average black man in America today: both about as assimilationist as it’s possible to be. I’m not criticizing that at all, both have done remarkable things with the hand they’ve been dealt.
My point is simply that you can’t drop LL Cool J or Flava in the white house for the same reason, they’re just too damn black for most americans – men and women alike. But you *Can* have a very light black man serve in a high position (Powell) and then have a black woman in a high position (Rice) and then have a slightly darker black man as president. Like it or not, you have to go by degrees, and that invariably means “Don’t frighten the white folk.” It’s got nothing to do with capabilities. I just always assumed the first black president would be a republican because it’s less frightening that way.
So can Hillary be president? I kind of doubt it. She comes across as a ballbreaker and her particular brand of empowerment comes across as shrill and man-hating, which is intimidating to men and some women alike. On top of this she lacks the matronly qualities of a Eleanor Roosevelt or a Margaret Thatcher. Nancy Pellosi? Doubtful. She comes across like the kind of girls who ran the high school newspaper: Never dated, kind of bitchy and mean, insulted everyone who got in their way.
I’m not saying that’s who or what these people really are, I’m just saying that’s how they come across and that “Frightens the white folk.”
Then you’ve got your Sarah Palin, who’s pretty, doesn’t seem aggressively stupid when she limits herself to short, declarative sentences, is good with a gun (Always a popular penis-surrogate. If Hillary hunted, she’d be more popular), and clearly likes men and speaks well of them. That’s a hell of a lot less intimidating to a lot of voters, both male and female.
Will she be president? Hell no. She’s a dope. I’m just saying she’s packaged herself in such a way that she’s much more attractive to the cross section of voters than either of the most viable female democrats, and it would be silly to ignore the reasons why.
@Hoobajoobah – I have a book you might like. It’s called “Hip: A History,” and goes into much of the history of the intersections of black and jewish and white popular culture, and the how’s and why’s of what became popular, when.
Send me your address at john@pinkraygun.com and I’ll send it out to you in the next couple of days. Based on your latest comment, I think it’s something you might really enjoy.
Thanks!
@Hoobajoobah: As much as it saddens me to admit it, you make some really good points. Not sad that you’re right, you understand, but that we live in such a society. Especially since, statistically speaking, whites are rapidly becoming a minority. (Population-wise, anyway. The narrowing of the prosperity divide will probably take a while longer.)
It boggles my mind that Palin is still so popular among Republican voters, even after members of the party leadership turned on her. She was clearly a meant to capitalize on the lack of a female candidate, rather than being chosen for her diplomatic skills or leadership potential. I try to respect people who hold political views different from my own, but it’s really hard to do that when they come off as ragingly uninformed as she has over the past few months. It’s really sad that conservatives have become more concerned about a candidate being likable than being intelligent and articulate. Personally, I want the people running our country to be smart.