Comments on: Ben Stiller and More Merde

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:21:54 +0000

serpentine, I believe that lots of people felt like you do…they couldn’t find much difference between the pix. My conclusion was that Rachel Zoe should eat more, in order to look like a woman instead of a gaunt would-be pre-teen.

Yes, Laura Brown may start looking for other work, since she’s useless as a journalist.

By: serpentine

serpentine — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:44:18 +0000

Am I the only person who had to look hard to see the difference between those Rachel Zoe photos? It looks like one or two sizes difference, plus a bit of boobage, not four. And what conclusion are we supposed to draw. That size doesn’t matter? Then that was a really shit illustration of the point. The interview is the most muddled collection of nothing ever. Can we get Laura Brown (the author) canned too please.

By: Thomas D. Taylor

Thomas D. Taylor — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:24:31 +0000

The cure for ignorance and prejudice is information. People can educate themselves about autism by listening to the free Midnight In Chicago audio podcasts at http://www.mic.mypodcast.com. By understanding what autism is and how it works, they will be less likely to call people with autism “retards” and be more likely to respect them.

By: emma

emma — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:51:46 +0000

thanks for your response sister wolf – i think i’ll reserve my judgement until I watch the movie. perhaps i’m naive in not even thinking they would hope for this sort of publicity – what a shame!

i wait with anticipation for your next post 🙂

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:07:28 +0000

Nick, I’m here for you. Feel free to rant or just speak your mind any time here. xo

Juri, we are such soulmates. Of course, Adam Sandler must be gone and his little friend Tom as well. I can’t even tell the difference between Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler, to tell you the truth.

annemarie, well. words are political, aren’t they, whether we like it or not. When I was a kid, a person with Down’s Syndrome was still called a mongolid idiot.

By: Nick McGivney

Nick McGivney — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:42:40 +0000

I don’t believe you should try to ban anything unless you want to make it fierce popular. It didn’t work with the Sex Pistols, it didn’t work with Frankie Goes To Hollywood, it didn’t work with A Clockwork Orange or Last Tango in Paris (the original runaway giant turd). It won’t work with Tropic Thunder or retard either. But when people get insulted (the least of it) or murdered because of their difference (http://thefamilyvoyage.blogspot.com/2008/01/remember-brent-martin.html)
I just can’t not speak. Because I’m their Dad, and they can’t fucking well defend themselves. This is the first time I am actually close to fucking cracking since this row broke out and I AM TIRED of this giant runaway shit. Whatsyourproblemman itsajokeman chillthefuckoutman NO NO NO! Ben Stiller (Giant runaway little BS) can get as clever as he fucking well likes versus ‘Hollywood execs and the system’ as if he dropped in from planet fucking Karma but he is the system, he is the money, and I am not and the idiots whose vocabulary he is contracting are not and our worlds will collide more ofeten now thanks to his ‘hilarious sending up of actors’ Hardy har fucking fuck. It is probably an entire coincidence that his sidekick writer Etan Coen (no typo there) has just about one other credit to his name, the what-are-the-chances titled ‘My Wife is a Retard’. Think I made it up? feh. Ban it? No way. Slay them for unnecessary cruelty? Yes.But dontcha know we’re just wiring the fucking explosives for Dreamworks here.

I’ll go. I don’t get to talk like this often enough. Sister Wolf I do so love your writing.

By: Juri

Juri — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:25:56 +0000

I missed the turd and my electricity is still quite all right, thank you very much, but I do support retirement benefits and want to join you in getting a retirement/disappearance package to Ben Stiller.

One humble question, though:

Would it be totally inappropriate to ask that Tom Cruise and Adam Sandler fly on the same ticket to oblivion, and take along with them all the tapes/discs/evidence that they ever existed?

By: enc

enc — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:14:52 +0000

Wow, look at all this discussion!

I caught about 20 minutes of Rachel Zoe’s tv show the other day, and couldn’t believe the cavalcade of clowns. It was pretty pathetic.

By: hammie

hammie — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:32:30 +0000

ah, yuh huh.
xx

By: annemarie

annemarie — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:41:24 +0000

the other day i was scolded for using the word “dwarf” to describe someone who had, well, dwarfism. i was told that the correct term for a such a person is “little person.” this was the first i heard that the word “dwarf” had been blacklisted, and it struck me as totally bizarre not least because “dwarfism” appears to be permissable yet “dwarf” is not, but also because (like Hammie) i’m from Ireland and over there the phrase “little people” is a euphemism for fairies.

why “dwarf” is considered a “bad word” a mystery to me, but i do understand the problem with “retard.” that people use “retard” as an insult and that’s why there’s a problem with this film.

BUT…..

i just find it difficult to chime in with everyone else and say that any word is “bad.” how can a WORD be bad? i think if a word has the ability to inflict grievous emotional damage to a person then there is obviously something much bigger (ie. grievous ignorance) going on. why don’t people, calmly, use this as an opportunity to talk about that and take the discussion to a more meaningful, intelligent level?

or is it that as long as people use nice, clean language they can be as prejudiced as they like? focusing on a WORD and how BAD it is is such a bullshit white-wash and this whole discussion just seems really myopic.

(i might be wrong about this but someone told me that the term “politically correct” was coined by a Republican think-tank in the eighties who were trying to find ways in which they could market themselves by paying lip-service to everyone and alienate no-one. the whole idea of black-listing words is rooted in hypocrisy.)