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Yes, sister, choose what you want (The Stepford Wives: Lame attempt to pillory conservatives)
Sydney Morning Herald ^ | July 1, 2004 | By Miranda Devine

Posted on 06/30/2004 7:09:11 AM PDT by dead

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To: Ribeye

Don't forget that he's also a permanent teenager who refuses to grow up. Hollywood and TeeVee have told him that sort of behavior is perfectly normal.

Words cannot express how grateful I am that I didn't get stuck in that boat with a great number of my generation.

Example: Just had my high school's 10 year reunion. Now, just considering the males that I graduated with (about 25 of them), 3 are bartenders, 2 work as nightclub bouncers, 4 still live at home, and 3 are unemployed.

Of those 12, none are married, nor have had any type of serious relationship.

Just...sad.


21 posted on 06/30/2004 8:33:58 AM PDT by ItsOurTimeNow ("Forth now! And fear no Darkness!!")
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To: GraniteStateConservative
Must...cease cackling...like a chicken...with no head.

Can't suppress...uncontrollable laughter.

Must not...urinate in pants.

Uh-oh!

It's too late.

22 posted on 06/30/2004 10:08:57 AM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid ("You either ride with us, or collide with us!" (The Secrets of War.)
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To: dead; qam1

Xer Ping


23 posted on 06/30/2004 10:22:23 AM PDT by CyberCowboy777 (Veritas vos liberabit)
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To: GraniteStateConservative
That was a hilarious bit.
24 posted on 06/30/2004 10:24:28 AM PDT by CyberCowboy777 (Veritas vos liberabit)
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To: Mamzelle
I am 26, married 6 years with 4 kids.

While there is no doubt my generation has its problems, the "new" man & women was an invention of the baby boomer's.

If my generation is following in their footsteps, do be it, but lets place the blame where it belongs.

Damn hippies.
25 posted on 06/30/2004 10:28:34 AM PDT by CyberCowboy777 (Veritas vos liberabit)
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To: CyberCowboy777
Christopher Walken:

You're darn tootin' dat was an hilarious bit! I worked my ass off for that audience. I'll have you know that Will Ferell p**** his pants when we wrapped up that shoot! I mean, c'mon. If you ain't diggin' Cowbell, you ain't diggin' life man!

26 posted on 06/30/2004 10:37:42 AM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid ("You either ride with us, or collide with us!" (The Secrets of War.)
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To: CyberCowboy777; qam1; ItsOurTimeNow; PresbyRev; tortoise; Fraulein; StoneColdGOP; Clemenza; ...
Xer Ping

Ping list for the discussion of the politics and social aspects that directly effects Gen-Reagan/Generation-X (Those born from 1965-1981) including all the spending previous generations (i.e. The Baby Boomers) are doing that Gen-X and Y will end up paying for.

Freep mail me to be added or dropped. See my home page for details and previous articles.

27 posted on 06/30/2004 10:44:30 AM PDT by qam1 (Tommy Thompson is a Fat-tubby, Fascist)
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To: dead
Targeted for special malice are conservatives, suburbanites, stay-at-home mothers, attractive women, blondes, women who bake, rural folk, men who are faithful to their wives, and conservative gays: a gay with a bad haircut.

Translation. The writers are ugly as hell.

28 posted on 06/30/2004 11:03:05 AM PDT by Dan from Michigan ("With the Great White Buffalo, he's gonna make a final stand" - Ted Nugent)
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To: qam1; afraidfortherepublic; Monitor; GoLightly; meeps; Ronaldus Magnus; myself6; republicandiva; ...
Oh no you didn'?(!)

Dissin' my boy Tommy Thompson?(!)

Ya' best check yourself before ya' wreck yourself.

Besides, dat ain't fat G.

The firmer the cushion, the harder the pushin'. Or sumpin' like dat.

29 posted on 06/30/2004 11:03:38 AM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid ("You either ride with us, or collide with us!" (The Secrets of War.)
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To: The Scourge of Yazid

LOL


30 posted on 06/30/2004 11:04:40 AM PDT by cyborg
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To: dead

Nancy Pelosi reminds me of the Stepford Wives. I think its the unblinking stare, and the canned, preprogramed droning that locks it in for me.


31 posted on 06/30/2004 11:11:27 AM PDT by Badeye ("The day you stop learning, is the day you begin dying")
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To: Badeye; cyborg
Oh no!

You know what this means, don't you?

The guy with the photo-shopped "Nancy Pelosi as dominatrix" pictures is heading our way.

God help us all.

32 posted on 06/30/2004 11:15:23 AM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid ("You either ride with us, or collide with us!" (The Secrets of War.)
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To: The Scourge of Yazid

Plastic bobble head Pelosi.


33 posted on 06/30/2004 11:16:12 AM PDT by cyborg
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To: cyborg
Not as good as the plastic bobble head G.W.

There's actually a cool store in Manhattan that sells "action figures" of the prez, Giuliani, etc.

One of the best toy stores in NYC, in my humble opinion.

34 posted on 06/30/2004 11:22:01 AM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid ("You either ride with us, or collide with us!" (The Secrets of War.)
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To: Badeye

Pelosi reminds me of the mom in "Brazil" who is constantly getting face-lifts. I think the actress who plays that character was also on the 1970s series "Soap". I forget her name.

Katherine Helmond maybe?
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001340/


35 posted on 06/30/2004 11:22:41 AM PDT by Betis70
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To: Ribeye
Unfortunately I married one of those "new men"....

What's interesting is now that we're separated, I can actually enjoy being a mom in the traditional sense. I read another article here about how there is a shift among the young to more traditional values, there is hope...

36 posted on 06/30/2004 11:29:43 AM PDT by momfirst
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To: Betis70
Well, she does look familiar.

Then again, I've been fooled by these black shadow, cut-outs in place of real photos before, so I wouldn't be willing to place money on it.

I think I'll wait for the

Internet Movie Data Base

to upgrade its picture files.

Maybe they could use some of those paper effigies you always see at those cool "Mothers Of The Disappeared" protests down in Latin America.

37 posted on 06/30/2004 11:36:38 AM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid ("You either ride with us, or collide with us!" (The Secrets of War.)
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To: The Scourge of Yazid

Well I was going by circumstantial evidence--being in both Brazil and Soap which is listed in the IMDB.

Here is a photo, but you need to have seen the movie Brazil to understand what I am talking about.

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/PersonDetail/personid-5383


38 posted on 06/30/2004 11:39:12 AM PDT by Betis70
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To: Mamzelle
The movie is based on a false assumption. The new man doesn't want to be the breadwinner and doesn't care much about a home-cooked meal--and I don't think he wants kids, either.

You raise good points in your post. I think the reason the remake misses the mark as to what men want is because the screenplay was written by a gay man.

39 posted on 06/30/2004 11:58:14 AM PDT by NYCVirago
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To: CyberCowboy777

The "new man" & new woman" were inherited by boomers, not created by them.

Check the bios of some of the founders of the movement.

Betty Friedan was born in 1921.
Bella Abzug was born in 1920.
Gloria Steinem (the young "pretty" one) was born in 1934.


40 posted on 06/30/2004 12:04:48 PM PDT by GoLightly
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