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11/09/09
It's Dan Brown syndrome. It's easier to hate on someone who seems no more talented than you are. #mireilleguiliano
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Now, it's one thing to co-opt the word "bitch" if you're describing a woman who doesn't subject herself to the patriarchal standards of what a nice girl should be. That's very different than conforming to most of society's rules (torturing yourself and others in order to stay thin is very, very conventional), and just being a bad person while doing it. If someone is only destructive to themselves, they have my sympathy. But when they start being destructive to others, and doing it proudly, there needs to be some negative reinforcement from the world at large. NOT a book deal. #mireilleguiliano
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There should be a special circle of hell for that. Maybe it's circle 5.5 (between wrath and heresy). #mireilleguiliano
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Sounds like Giuliano's got a case of the Hillary Clintons--hated for stupid reasons people would never hate a man for. #mireilleguiliano
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And I swear I'm not a smug TV non-owner.
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Not trying to say nobody would ever hate a man for being smug, but I'm saying that she faced certain criticisms that men do not.
I was going on the reasons sadie gave for people disliking her based on "smugness," etc rather than a substantial reason which is much of the criticism hillary faced and faces. So i think the comparison still stands. #mireilleguiliano
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Snark snark snark. Hate observations like this. #mireilleguiliano
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Americans don't like being unfavorably compared with the French, period. #mireilleguiliano
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There, if French women read that (translated, naturellement), they'll get fat. #mireilleguiliano
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That being said, I like her writing style, and most of what she says is sound - don't eat when you're bored, take a half-hour walk everyday, etc. - but I'm still a little baffled that she's managed to construct an empire around what strikes me as little more than common sense. #mireilleguiliano
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I'm thinking of writing a whole series of books based on the awesomesness that is Canadian women.
Hmmm. What kind of BS would sell? Canadian Women Don't Get Bored? Canadian Women Don't Wear Uggs? #mireilleguiliano
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And I don't think the "But we're French!" excuse flies anymore. It's not like France is hermetically sealed off from the rest of the world or doesn't have its own racial problems. I'm sorry to say that from my perspective, Europeans seem to be behind Americans in terms of racial sensitivity. I still clearly remember the slanty eyes pictures of the Spanish Olympic basketball team and the repeated, lame Berlusconi jokes about the Obamas being "tanned." Both of those were excused as instances of cultural ignorance, usually accompanied by a "hey, it was a joke you PC Americans. Lighten up!"
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The shoot is apparently intended to be arty, to be edgy; fine. But it feels cheap and attention-seeking, and the lack of non-white models in the rest of the issue suggests that the editors are actually the opposite of edgy - they are just lazy and conservative.
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As I mentioned in the first story about this, racism does not exist on its own. It is an intent. There is no way there was intent here. Brown paint on white skin is not in and of itself a minstrel show, and it does not inherently make the pictures racist. So by the logic of the detractors on the board, no one is ever allowed to wear white robes anymore just because the Klan does? Or is it the pointy hats that make them racists? The people involved in this are not racists. So the pics cant be either.
The most disturbing thing about this is that if they had used a black model wearing white paint in the spread, this article and these discussions would not even exist. Everyone here that is offended by this would be appeased by that simple tit for tat. And for anyone to think that actual racism could be resolved so easily is dangerous. If your resolution to "racism" can be resolved that simply, then it wasn't real in the first place. And please spare me the forth coming "I didn't say that would appease me" line. Its the truth, and if you're being honest with us and yourself you know it is.
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A: how on earth would you know what their private beliefs are?
The same way you do apparently. Your assumption that they are racists is as valid as my assumption that they aren't.
B: Racism, or any other ideological position, doesn't function overtly. Most of us are unaware of our own prejudices.
Exactly. Real racists don't go around promoting it. Much less produce multipage photo shoots in international magazines touting that racism.
C: Nobody has suggested that the editors of Vogue 'are racists'.
Ok, lets say hypothetically that's true. So then what you are saying is that the the images are racist instead. No actual person is, just the pictures. Talk about a strawman argument.
You and others on this board will never concede any of my points as it gets in the way of you politically correct agenda. No one ever actually wants to discuss race. You just want to bludgeon the other side into submission in hopes of them just going away. That does nothing to actually help resolve the race issues in the world.
I can only assume you would have made equally as forceful an arguement for Tawana Brawley, or the Duke Lacrosse "victim", up to the point where they were both proven to be liars. You much like the professors at Duke who condemned the entire team immediately, see race first and no further discussion is warranted. And god help the person that does. They are obviously (moronic, deficient, dense, witless, dim, foolish, brainless, half-witted, idiotic, shortsighted, simple, slow, sluggish, thick, imbecilic, unintelligent, insert your own...) Although I have to admit being called Tom Cruise is a new one. Kudos for that. #vogueblackface