Posted on 04/25/2005 2:47:00 PM PDT by swilhelm73
In appearance Cameron Diaz is someone lovely enough to make me believe if only for a second in intelligent design - but even those most inclined to give her the benefit of every doubt have to contend with the sneaky, troubling, suspicion that she is as dumb as a particularly stupid rock. First there were those rape comments during the election, and now there is this:
The 32-year-old Diaz, who earns a reported $20-million a movie, boasted that the cow-dung slathered walls of a Nepalese village hut were "beautiful" and "inspiring," and she called the primitive practice of "pounding mud" with sticks to construct a building foundation "the coolest thing."
There is something rather disgusting about the richest of the rich world rejoicing in the primitive squalor from which mankind is all too slowly emerging. There is also something profoundly condescending and, at its root, maybe even racist, in the way that Diaz (and, read the terrific article on all this nonsense here, Drew Barrymore too) appear to imagine that the third worlders trapped in desperate poverty do not share in the material aspirations of the more fortunate portions of humanity.
And as, for those spiritual values that Diaz purports to find in picturesque hellholes such as Bhutan, I suspect that, given the chance, most of those bowers, scrapers and chanters would be pleased to junk their shamans, temples and priests in favour of running water, electricity and decent education.
And they would be right to.
Via Radley
How about some breast with those nipples...?
Guess my neck is too red to be so-pis-ticated, but what is that thing in post 36??
No, I just have good taste. :)
LOL
Bartender asks yeah, whatcha celebrating?
Blondes say, well we put together a puzzle in record time.
Bartender: how fast?
Blondes: well, it said 2-4 years on the side of the box, but we did it in 90 days!
Ball gag. Guess I overestimated the number of Pulp Fiction fans on this thread. :-)
See Pulp Fiction?
As human beings, those people, just like any people, strive everyday to have more resources, and to have more convenience. Maybe they'd have no use for a new Benz, but they damn sure would like an easier way to build a nicer house, or to get their crops in the ground. It's the height of foolishness, in other words, to assume these poeple live this way because they choose to, not because circumstances have forced it upon them.
Could poke an eye out with those sweetie!
Woof, Woof.
Nope...please tell me....but carefully, so Jim Robinson doesn't boot us.
Who just happens to be Hispanic, too!
LOL
It had better be a size XXXL for that enormous mouth of her's.
I don't know, but I'll guess.
Unlike racist jokes, jokes based on hair color don't refer to an unchangeable human attribute. The dumb blonde stereotype applies more to dyed (e.g. Marilyn Monroe) than to natural blondes. Precisely because becoming a blonde is a choice (Blondes have more fun!), the blonde is an acceptable subject for guilt-free stereotyping. Marilyn and her successor Hollywood dumb blondes have intentionally perpetuated the stereotype.
Random House has a brief history of dumb Hollywood blondes.
While the dumb blonde stereotype does not usually extend to males, I think it does apply to peroxide-blond male surfers. Again, this is partly because their hair color is often chosen, not natural. Remember Sean Penns character Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High? The quintessential dumb blond surfer.
Of course, males with natural blond hair and blue eyes are, by definition, Nazis.
Finally, a real answer! I've been asking this question for years, mostly in jest, and all I've ever got back was more blond jokes.
..and it even makes sense.
..except for your final comment - poor choice of phrasing. Blond & Blue is not Nazi by definition any more than dark hair and swarthy skin are terrorists by definition.
Anyway, I'm a Swede :)
I didn't even notice it in "The Karate Kid" until I read an article about just that. Since I have noticed it over and over. Of course not 100% but more often than not, the villains are blond which is odd considering the population has to be less than 50% blond.
Probably the real percentage is less than 5%.
"Look at my nipples! Don't ask me any questions!"
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