Looks like the liberation of Indian women from stultifying cultural and religious traditions will be fought, not with outdated boring translated feminist texts from the West, but in colorful bikinis on the shapely. Models VS militants. Speaking of Indian women struggling against the oppressively maddening paradigms of traditions you might want to check out a 2009 documentary Love in India or, for example, the novel Miss India. Also India Becoming.
A few cynical and depressing tidbits to jumpstart your Monday
Posted: May 7, 2012 in Current eventsTags: Bai Ling, Blacklist, Prisons
Please tell me this isn’t China’s secret ingredient for its continuing rise to Super Power status (and I thought Bai Ling’s movie Dumplings was fictional). (Oh, btw, it’s still too early to tell how this will affect my Asian fetish). Note: here’s an update on this gruesome story.
The good old American prison system: ugly to the bone (as in that song by George Thorogood, Bad to the Bone).
Yes, it’s happened (and of course you knew it would): Britain bans list names, as in blacklist, whitelist. Could the astronomers’ black hole list be next? Hell, could the very names black and white be banned next?
Though evidently he’s been through an ordeal with Chinese officials dissident Chen Guancheng might want to think twice about trying to get into the U.S. Just look at another Chinese student, Daniel Chong–left in a DEA detention room with no food or water for five days and forced to drink his own urine. Well, Chen, if you do manage to get here Welcome to the Grand Banana Republic (and be sure to bring a fresh water bottle).
Something I don’t understand about that hooker payment fiasco in Columbia. Why was the agent arguing with the woman about payment? Doesn’t the government bill the taxpayers for prostitution services? Isn’t that what they did in that $800,000 party recently in Las Vegas?
Tired of Angry Birds? Why not play a word/phrase news opinion political social link game instead, something a little more thought provoking. So you’ve read the news, been to all your favorite sites and and not so favorite sites (known as the opposition) and now are ready to play. All you have to do is squeeze your head and identify the latest or at least not too old headlines or opinion pieces that best clarify the the following word or phrase (don’t worry, I’ve included hints).
Stupidity with gall Hint: Think in Afghanistan Here.
Tools Hint: Involves MSM (OK, another hint, think movie title with drag racing) Here.
Anti-education measure Hint: again, think Afghanistan (another hint: picture conservative religious men with long flea-beards) Here (wait, another hint: think of a movie title, er, maybe like Arsenic and Old Lace)
Isn’t this fun?
Everyman debauchery Hint: first think dotgov then think sure wish I could do that. Here
Japanese lesson Hint: think Tokyo Vice. Here (OK, this isn’t really a headline but the book was fantastic).
Sexy Hint: spray on dress and, er, The Three Stooges revisited (or The new Three Stooges on the Shore). Here
Discrimination Hint: think reverse discrimination, or discrimination by any other name would still be… Here
Open internet killer Hint: Facebook, etc. as jailer Here (Ah, shucks, before you click here’s another hint: think book/movie The Secret Garden).
Human flies on a wall Hint: ‘welcome back to the human race’ (another hint: try this: LOL is no substitute for real laughter; and here’s another hint: tweets are nothing more than 140 character digital bullshit) Here
…Well, boys and girls, time for recess…
OK, one more:
Peace walls Hint: ‘white girl bleed a lot’ Here
Is the USA the poorest “rich” country in the world? Yes, it is. It is truly the land of the one-percenters and their victims. Check this eye-opening article in the UK’s Daily Mail. Here.By the way, you can find out more about American poverty at the aptly titled site American Poverty.
