Posted on 04/22/2024 11:48:40 AM PDT by Angelino97
Taking up a discourse of idealised whiteness in conjunction with star theory, Sean Redmond frames white female stardom as a privileged yet restrictive state.
Locating Johansson within such a construction of stardom, Redmond looks to how her idealised white star image as resolved through her roles in Her, Under the Skin and Ghost in the Shell is simultaneously recognisable and alienating within these texts. As idealised white star, Johansson traverses the cinematic universe, moving with privileged access into roles, spaces and intimacies laid open for her. Yet as an unobtainable and non-reproductive idol, Johansson is also alienating, an embodiment of the loneliness, fragmentation and isolation that plagues contemporary (white) social existence...
In science fiction film one can see how the whitely markers of Heaven and Angel are transposed to the impressive vastness of utopian Space, and the figure of the Alien Messiah who descends to earth and is given symbolic transformative powers, such as the ability to heal, resurrect and, if wronged, seek vengeance. The Alien Messiah confuses and upsets binary reproductive structures, and is implicated in the non-reproductive framework of idealised whiteness since they are beyond reproduction and see it as a lesser form of evolution.
In Arrival, the Heptapods communicate in circular cryptograms which render time and space anti-chrononormative: they are beyond reproduction but allow Louise Banks, the whitely linguist in the film, to give birth again to the daughter that has already died...
Elizabeth Ellsworth calls this essential paradox the “double binds of whiteness,” whereby rationalised purity necessarily brings privileged white people closer to their own negation since they lack empathy and deny the sex drive that in the end would result in the eradication of the species.
In a great many science fiction films, the figure of the hyper-white scientist is presented as dangerous...
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“Jost was dormmates with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg while the two lived in Leverett House at Harvard.”
Eeeeewwwwwww!
All should see her in last year’s movie “Asteroid City”. Jeff Goldblum plays the alien and that’s one of the lest weird parts of the movie.
I meant “least”.
But if the author doesn't understand Arrival, it is hard to take it seriously.
Not that Arrival got the paradoxes of time time travel manipulation right either.
Lol!
“Why can’t I have her for a few weeks?”
That’s a good question. I have no doubt you’d be a heck of a lot more fun for her than the Hollywood ‘men’ who eschew masculinity.
She had implants. Well done implants, but implants none the less. Implants she did not need to begin with.
Geez, pretentious intellectualism elevated to dizzying heights.
I’d be embarrassed to have my name on that by line.
The jealosy is strong in this one. But not nearly as strong as the stupidity. So goes the the joke of the lib arts crowd in academia. AI could do the work of that clown with a few lines of simple code.
I don’t care about any law but the Law.
The closet ancestors genetically to Ashkenazi Jews are Sephardic Jews who never left the Levant, followed by the Samaritans who never left the Levant , followed by Arabs in and around Israel.
It’s well studied and no mystery.
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My mother used to say the ones you really notice had “it “……Like the old time actress Clara Bow .
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You mean the Law of Moses?
I don't recall anything in the Pentateuch that says a Jew is someone born of a Jewish mother. (In fact, they were called Israelites rather than Jews back then.)
The Old Testament is fairly patriarchal, whereas the rule you cite is matriarchal. I suspect it originated long after the Mosaic law.
Where does this rule come from? The Talmud? Some other Jewish tradition? When does this rule first appear in writing? The medieval period? Later still?
“You mean the Law of Moses? I don’t recall anything in the Pentateuch that says a Jew is someone born of a Jewish mother.”
Then apparently you missed Deuteronomy. Or the entire Book of Ezra and the problem with Samaritans. And goodly parts Genesis.
If you recall, the Book of Ezra tells the story of the Jews who returned from Babylonia to finish rebuilding the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Upon their arrival they found that many of the Jews who inhabited the land had taken non-Jewish wives.
Ezra was heartbroken, tearing his garments in mourning and prayer to God. A large crowd gathered, and joined with Ezra as he prayed and wept. Then:
“And Shechaniah, the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, raised his voice and said to Ezra, “We have betrayed our God, and we have taken in foreign wives of the peoples of the land, but there is still hope for Israel concerning this.”
“Now then, let us make a covenant with our God to expel all these women and those who have been born to them, in accordance with the bidding of the Lord and of all who are concerned over the commandment of our God, and let the Torah be obeyed.” (Ezra 10:2-3.)
So what part of the Torah was being referred to?
Deuteronomy 7:4:
“You shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughter to his son, and you shall not take his daughter for your son. For he will turn away your son from following Me, and they will worship the gods of others, and the wrath of God will be kindled against you, and He will quickly destroy you.”
You can carefully parse this and figure out that, while both are bad, sons marrying foreign daughters is really bad and the descendants are not Jewish. (”Son” is limited to Jewish descendants in the Bible.) Plenty of explanations for you, one Bing search away.
BTW: the descendants of the expelled women (and the Jewish men who didn’t leave them) are the Samaritans, notably still not Jewish hundreds of years later, in the times of Jesus.
Or if you want to go older:
Abraham fathered children with three wives or concubines: Sarah, Hagar, and Keturah. Sarah affirmatively chose God, so her descendants were Jewish. Hagar (Ishmael) and Keturah’s descendants were not. In fact, in Genesis 21:13, God refers to Hagar’s son Ismael as “the son of the maidservant” rather than “your [Avraham’s] son” (while also referring to Hagar’s son as Abraham’s seed);
I don’t think anyway argues that the Ishmaelites (aka Arabs) are Jewish.
Isaac had one wife Rebecca and two sons, Jacob and Esau. Jacob’s wives converted (or were already Jewish; not clear) and their descendants became Jewish. Esau’s descendants, in contrast, were non-Jewish: this was a result of his wives being Hittite and Ishmaelite.
Moses married Zipporah, a Midianite woman. They had two sons, Gershom and Eliezer, both born before the Exodus. The sons of Moses—with an Israelite father and Midianite mother—are absent from the genealogies of Levites, which do include the sons of Moses’ brother Aaron (whose wife was Israelite).
Now in the opposite direction — non-Jewish father and Jewish mother — several notable persons were accepted as Jewish, despite having a non-Jewish father:
Hiram the craftsman was Jewish, and, in fact, employed to build Solomon’s Temple despite having a Phoenician father (and Israelite mother).
Amasa was entrusted with control of an Israelite army, despite having a non-Israelite father (and Israelite mother).
And so on. All of these follow the same pattern.
Now, there are plenty of women converts: Sarah, Ruth, etc whose descendants are Jewish (notably King David in Ruth’s case).
In sum, it’s plain in the text of Deuteronomy, crystal clear in Ezra, and pretty darn obvious everywhere else.
Yes, but not because of DNA, but because they worshiped foreign gods.
and the descendants are not Jewish.
That's a non sequitur.
To say that descendants of Jewish mothers and gentile fathers are Jewish, but not visa versa ... I don't see that. It's merely some rabbi's interpretation. Or parsing, as you call it.
Nor do I see that the reason Esau was not chosen was because he took a gentile wife. So did Jacob. Issac's family were the only people of the promise at that time. Although they were Jacob's cousins, neither Leah nor Rachel were daughters of Jewish mothers or fathers.
Moses took at least two gentile wives. A Midianite, as I recall. And a Cushite.
Sure, Ezra was just “some rabbi” doing an “interpretation” when he kicked out the (now) Samaritans.
I think I’ll defer to the 3500 years of Judaism rejecting your nonsense as to how to interpret their laws.
I'm rejecting your interpretation of Ezra's interpretation of God's law.
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