Even In Battle, Blondes Get All The Attention

Independent (UK) ^ | 4-4-2003 | Deborah Orr

[sarasmom]

Dead on!
This contemptable.Does the spitefull author of this piece of slimeball writing really think we would leave Shoshona, or any of the male MIA/POW to rot if we had the kind of intell it appears we had on Jessica?
I told myself I would avoid these threads, I knew this type of BS posturing by brain dead pundits would ensue.

[UB355]

Orr, Deborah
(Humanities), Ph.D. (York (Can)),
Assistant professor
dorr@yorku.ca

RESEARCH INTEREST

Degrees: Ph.D. (York (Can))

Current Position: Assistant Professor

Home Dept. / program: Humanities (Arts)
Office address: 044 McLauglin College
Phone: 736-2100 ext. 77024
Email: dorr@yorku.ca

Teaching Areas: gender, ethics

[thepitts]

The hope seems somewhat forlorn. Because it is also recognisable that America does have a hierarchy of life, with pretty blondes at the top, black Americans and Native Americans further down and the rest of the world trailing hopelessly. Which might help explain the unseemly rush to war.

This really is just not true.

[rabidralph]

Actually, she will be a black lesbian who campaigned for Algore, befriended her captors, and weeped for the environmental damage done by the war.

don't forget that she will escape like McGyver, repair and steal a captured Blackhawk, fire a hellfire into Saddam's forehead and will cap the last two well fires, as cheering black and latino soldiers and Marines greet her as she lands at Saddam International Airport, which she liberated on her way to the oil wells.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

I have been waiting on crap like this. The world is so PC ,it has gone mad.

[xm177e2]

What a bitter, hateful witch. There's no much I can say about this.

I'm sure Mr Parsons will recognise, with the wisdom of hindsight, that his speculations unconsciously followed exactly those old racist assumptions that men of colour want nothing more than to rape white women.

Mr Parsons was probably basing his guess on the FACT that white women POWs were raped in Iraq 12 years ago. It's not racist if it's true!

[Atlas Sneezed]

Like the "heroes" of flight 93?

[sweetliberty]

"male Iraqi doctors who nursed her broken body and listened to her cries for home while she remained a prisoner of war."

While the family that sent notice of Prv. Lynch's whereabouts are true heroes in this story, I am not so quick to swallow the "compassionate" doctors line. Jessica herself told her brother that she had not eaten in 8 days. What kind of a treatment is that by compassionate doctors?

[sweetliberty]

"how long it would take the Leftist loons to get around to some sort of racists-rescue-white-blonde bull sh*t"

It was bound to happen. What makes me so mad is the implication that had we been notified that any one of our other POW's was in that same place under the same circumstances that we wouldn't have done exactly the same thing...whether male or female, black or white.

[Scothia]

Following is the email I sent to Ms. Orr concerning this (cough cough) very interesting commentary of hers:

I am outraged at your woefully wrong depiction of the Jessica Lynch story. She is an example to all women. The fact that she is young, blonde, and white in no way detracts from her heroism, nor that of her rescuers--particularly those Iraqis who risked their lives to get her out. Your unfortunate article with its implication of racism does all women and decent men a disservice. You should be ashamed.

[Billthedrill]

Deborah Orr isn't worthy to shine Lynch's boots. Another cramped little academic who sees absolutely everything in the world through the tinted lenses of her own ideological certainty, she no more understands what motivated Lynch to lay her life on the line than she does brain surgery.

Let's cut to the facts here and dispense with the superficial dismissal of a third-rate intellect. Lynch was ambushed, fought back, was captured, injured, very probably tortured, freed by a miracle and incredible bravery on the part of the Iraqi who found her and the people who risked their own lives to come to claim her, and this pinhead takes it upon herself to cast aspersion because the color of her hair and her skin make her inconvenient for Orr's pathetic, outmoded excuse for a political and cultural theory? Too damn bad.

I know quite a few people like Deborah Orr. These live pinched, sordid little lives, and are as incapable of recognizing simple virtues such as courage and self-sacrifice as a dung beetle is of appreciating the Milky Way. Those who wallow in this intellectual mud must smear anything that seems clean, wholesome, real, because they know in their hearts that they are none of these and cannot stand the thought of a world in which their own inadequacies keep them from the first rank of the deserving. "Professor" Orr is beneath contempt.

[Mr. Mojo]

Ms Lynch

Mizz? I don't think so.

[Mr. Mojo]

unseemly rush to war.

The myth that won't die. ...along with "unilateral action." ....and of course the new one: "the coalition is bogged down."

[JZoback]

This girl, who before enlisting had never travelled more than 70 miles from her birthplace, had been brought up in a community that shared a name with a country whose own non-existence is centrally implicated in the troubles that almost claimed her life.

Talk about a stretch.......

"centrally implicated" I guess it makes good copy

[John Lenin]

I got the same treatment when I posted pictures of the Pro War protesters in Atlanta on yahoo message boards, one person said, 'all the protesters are white and Atlanta is mostly black" my comeback was, 'you got something against patriotic white people ? '.

[JimSEA]

Lori Piestewa is a Hopi girl and was Lynch's roomate. Knowing many young people, I rather doubt that the three young American women thought that much about race. It is very sad that all of them, along with their male fellow soldiers could not have been rescued. They are American, they very apparently resisted capture, they belong back with their unit. Several seem to be dead, discovered in the basement of the hospital, having given their all. Our prayers to their families are needed, not this racist crap which cheapens their sacrifice.

[BOOTSTICK]

The author is an idiot. If an Iraqi handed a note to an American G.I. telling the whereabouts of Lori Piestewa, or Shoshana Johnson, and they were rescued, the story of course would be different. Another lefty Brit stirs the racial cauldren.

[Incorrigible]

Sheesh. You made it all the way through the end! I gave up and had to go back and find your quote!