Even In Battle, Blondes Get All The Attention

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

[Cultural Jihad]

Europe continues to wallow in their all-pervasive class consciousness.

[ValerieUSA]

What hogwash... this idiot Brit made up most of this story. I think we have an aspiring Hollywood screenwriter here.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

This is a stupid point. People who raise it act like the women were in the same hospital together and our troops decided to only rescue the cute one. I wish these morons would shut up.

[blam]

Read this:

Iraqi Lawyer Saved Jessica Lynch

[blam]

Very good, thanks. If I could express myself that well, I'd post my opinions more often.

[FITZ]

Or maybe she was the only one alive.

That seems to be the most likely possibility. Obviously we don't know much yet but I wonder if certain Iraqis were keeping Lynch alive for other reasons. Luckily all Iraqis aren't evil and some apparently took mercy on her.

[Republic of Texas]

When I saw this story for the first time, I thought to myself, "self, I wonder how long it will take for some idiot to suggest we only went after her because she was the WHITE girl?" The answer? TWO HOURS. I heard a caller to a local talk show (I would say conservative talk show, but I don't want to be redundent), suggest just this thing.

I heard it again today on O'Reilly's radio show. His response was to ask, "why do you think they went after her?" The moron, sorry caller, said most eloquently, "I dunno". O'Reilly's answer contained just the right amount of incredulity and sarcasm.

"BECAUSE THEY KNEW WHERE SHE WAS! You can't rescue people until YOU KNOW WHERE THEY ARE!" Thankfully, he hung up on the idiot at that point.

I cannot imagine how stupid and/or brainwashed one has to be to intentionally overlook such an obvious truth. But millions do it everyday.

[Republic of Texas]

How can you tell which denizen's of DU are more repugnent than others?

[Republic of Texas]

I think the reason she was not listed as a POW was that some Iraqi General was intending to keep her as a private trophy. The other girl is lucky we've seen her on TV, that gives her a slightly better chance of surviving her captivity.

[ErnBatavia]

Like the "heroes" of flight 93?

Do I assume correctly that you assume that 9/11 event was bullshit?

[SeeRushToldU_So]

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

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[faithincowboys]

isn't this Tim Russert's wife?

[DaGman]

I was thinking yesterday afternoon that someone somewhere was already working on the screenplay for the movie.

[ALS]

[cyborg]

Could I pet him too?

[ALS]

daily

just drop some change in the DNC "COFFEE" cup...

[2Jedismom]

Don't you wish you were one of those kids in Post #74?

[HairOfTheDog]

Heh Heh...

[B-Chan]

E-mail to Orr:

Re your assertion 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":

You are a bigot. Your use of the epithets "pretty" (we prefer the term Persons of Regular Features) and "blonde" (an insulting street term for Americans Of Primarily European Genetic Heritage) is a sickening example of oppressive lookism at its worst. Your elitist and racist use of the slur term "pretty blonde" (a well-known code phrase used by crypto-turpocentric bigots to refer to the sterotypical "attractive heterosexual white man/woman") reveals only your own culturally / institutionally inculcated jealousy/rage complex towards those whom you perceive as a threat to the unattractive/mousy/homosexual female power structure that dominates academia in the modern world.

Well, this is one "pretty blonde" who is through riding at the back of your bus, Miss Orr. We Regular-Featured Americans of Primarily European Genetic Heritage are no longer going to sit back and accept the rampant bigotry of the entrenched turpocracy (of which you are _sui generis_) which seeks to delegitimize those whose aesthetic and chromatic characteristics are external of and flagrantly antithetical to the dominant, oppressive, and frankly fascistic purveyors of the gazeist world-categorizing epistimological _Weltanschauung_ that those outside of our Face/Color community would seek to universally immanentize throughout the nöosphere.

In other words: go back to the Isle of Lesbos, Miss Orr. The harpies miss you.

B. Chan Tarrant County, Texas