Posted on 09/09/2012 6:17:29 AM PDT by blam
Are you Colonel Kurtz?
“...Are you Colonel Kurtz?...”
No...J. Peterman, without the Urban Sombrero....”the horror....the horror...the horror...” hahah!!
Get outta my face, you ARE Colonel Kurtz!
Or, are you the caretaker?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5dQA4xbOHg
I call it, "The Hunger Games Syndrome"....You can't have movies anymore with only male heroes.
“...Or, are you the caretaker?...”
No....an errand boy...
“Mogumbomajabbaa!!”
“You speak Burmese?”
“No, Elaine, that was gibberish..”
“Elaine”
From “Airplane”, right???
You SOB, I was racking my brain wondering where that came from! :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WXVaChA3Q0
Nah, brother...Seinfeld!!
Stressed out J. Peterman ran away to Burma and made Elaine the President of the company, and of course she f***ed it all up...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnrX5sn4CtU
and the Urban Sombrero “The Horror...the horror...”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7mr9F7kHMM
What you posted was interesting enought that I did some reading about the Navajo society. They are traditionally matrilineal, in that descent and inheritance goes by the mother's line, and children belong to the mother's tribe.
I don't see evidence that women gave orders to men, with the men being obliged to obey, which is the classic definition of matriarchal. The war chiefs were men, and the councils were men (who represented their mothers' clans). In modern day Navajo government, the council members seem to be mostly men.
However, there is a problem. Matriarchal organizations are unable to interface with hierarchical organizations, so the tribe created a hierarchical tribal council of men just to interface with other governments.
Can you supply evidence that the male council members obey the consensus of the women?
I’ve never watched 1 second of that show.
I didn’t either when it was on prime time, but my son got the DVD set a while back, and we started watching it.
It’s frigging hilarious, if nothing more than to see how libs react under stress.
The Kramer character is insane. When I need a good belly laugh, I put on Seinfeld.
yeah, I know they’re all Libs... but it’s still funny.
That’s a tricky one. Often the families are in contention with each other, and the ascension of a family often means that those working in patronage jobs (like teaching) by other families get fired and replaced by individuals with no training. Which is why tribal schools are often terrible.
And the tribal council is smack in the middle of this, so have to do a huge amount of juggling, trying not to offend the larger families, doing lots of payoffs and paybacks.
I doubt I could cite any case of the council meekly obeying the orders of the grandmothers. That would cost them too much face, and the infighting in the council is bad enough already.
Hmmm...interesting. Very interesting.
In summary, matriarchal societies, whether Navajo or ghetto underclass, tend to be dysfunctional, which is why they get supplanted by patriarchal societies
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