RE: Colext: Vanity Fair

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[PANG] No te afanes, Fernando, si te cuento que  "Dame Edna" es un "man,"
un comediante, mediohumorista, que se viste con ropas de señora gobernadora
y le echa insultos y cacharrerías a quien se le ponga por delante en su
programa (es como un Don Rickles, versión australiana) . Mejor no meneallo,
como decía Sancho Panza, que a quienes lo tomen en serio, él les está
metiendo un gooo gooooo goooool! de película.  (;O)=


PANGosaurusBacatensis==========
========CyberCogito ergo CyberSum


> [Original Message]
> From: Fernando Guzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: ColExt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2/7/2003 10:57:11 AM
> Subject: Colext: Vanity Fair
>
> Colext/Macondo
> Cantina virtual de los COLombianos en el EXTerior
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> Acabo de recibir el siguiente mensaje de alguien que lee Vanity Fair.
> Yo ni la leo, ni la miro ni la huelo :-)  De todas maneras, la
> protesta est=E1 interesante.
>
> --=20
> Fernando Guzman
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
> # To whom it may concern;
> #=20
> # This petition is to request a formal apology from
> # Vanity Fair and Dame Edna
> # for
> # the offensive article regarding Latinos and the
> # Spanish language which
> # appears
> # in the February 2003 issue of Vanity Fair.  In the
> # meantime, please boycott
> # Vanity Fair magazine, and urge others to do the same.
> # If you are offended
> # by the
> # word-for-word transcription below, please copy (rather
> # than forward) this
> # email
> # in a new message, sign it at the end of the list, and
> # send it to all of the
> # people whom you know. If you receive this list with
> # 100 names signed,
> # please
> # send it to the Editor at: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> #=20
> # And copy me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> # Thank you!
> # Wendy Maldonado
> #=20
> # ___________________________
> #=20
> # Excerpt, Vanity Fair (February 2003), p. 116, Ask Dame
> # Edna:
> #=20
> # Dear Dame Edna,
> #=20
> # I would very much like to learn a foreign language,
> # preferably French or
> # Italian, but every time I mention this, people tell me
> # to learn Spanish
> # instead.
> # They say, "Everyone is going to be speaking Spanish in
> # 10 years.  George W.
> # Bush
> # speaks Spanish." Could this be true? Are we all going
> # to have to speak
> # Spanish?
> #=20
> # Torn Romantic,
> # Palm Beach
> #=20
> # ---------------------------------------------------------------------=
> -
> #=20
> # Dear Torn:
> #=20
> # Forget Spanish. There's nothing in that language worth
> # reading except Don
> # Quixote, and a quick listen to the CD of Man of La
> # Mancha will take care of
> # that. There was a poet named Garcia Lorca, but I'd
> # leave him on the
> # intellectual
> # back burner if I were you. As for everyone's speaking
> # it, what twaddle!
> # Who
> # speaks it that you are really desperate to talk to?
> # The  help? Your leaf
> # blower?
> # Study French or German, where there are at least a few
> # books worth reading,
> # or,
> # if you're American, try English.
> #=20
> # Dame Edna
> #=20
> # ---------------------------------------------------------------------=
> -
> #=20
> # Dear Editor,
> #=20
> # I was infuriated at Dame Edna's response to Torn
> # Romantic, Palm Beach
> # (Vanity Fair, February 2003). Dame Edna could have
> # chosen any number of
> # amusing responses; however, she responded using cheap,
> # two-dimensional
> # stereotypes of Latinos and Latin Americans, revealing
> # not only her racism
> # but
> # also her profound ignorance of who we are. We are not
> # just 'the help' and
> # the
> # 'leaf blowers'. We are architects and activists,
> # journalists and doctors,
> # governors and athletes, scientists and business
> # people. We are Nobel Prize
> # Winners and Rhodes Scholars. We speak Spanish, but we
> # also speak fluent
> # English,
> # and many of us speak other languages as well. As of
> # last week, we are
> # officially
> # the largest minority population in the United States
> # at 37 million and
> # 13%of the
> # population. Without us, the economy of this nation and
> # the Americas, and
> # consequently the world, would come to a complete
> # standstill. If Dame Edna
> # were
> # even remotely cultured or educated, she would have
> # read and lost herself in
> # the
> # exquisite writings of Nobel prize winners Octavio Paz,
> # Gabriel
> # Garcia-Marquez,
> # and Pablo Neruda. She would know that Sor Juana Inez
> # de la Cruz was one of
> # the
> # first feminists and
> # poets in the Americas. She would admire Isabel Allende
> # and Sandra Cisneros
> # for
> # their passionate prose and vibrant spirits. And of
> # course, if it had not
> # been
> # for us, the world would not know chocolate! And
> # everyone knows life would
> # not be
> # worth living without chocolate. Finally, I would like
> # to point out that
> # Dame
> # Edna would have NEVER written such blatantly offensive
> # material about
> # African-Americans or Jews, for obvious reasons. It
> # seems that Dame Edna AND
> # the
> # Editors of Vanity  Fair believe that Latinos and Latin
> # Americans cannot
> # read,
> # and even if we  could, we would never be Vanity Fair
> # readers. For the life
> # of
> # me,  I still cannot figure out why you chose to
> # feature Salma Hayek on the
> # cover
> # and in an article celebrating her success immediately
> # following such an
> # offensive piece. I demand an apology in print
> # in the next issue of Vanity Fair from the Editors and
> # from Dame Edna. In
> # the
> # meantime, I will be mobilizing everyone I know to
> # boycott and protest
> # Vanity
> # Fair. By the way, I am a 31-year old Mexican-American
> # woman, with three Ivy
> # League  degrees, working in New York City at a major
> # firm.  I sure as hell
> # am
> # NOT the leaf blower or the help, and I think all of
> # you need to go to
> # college.
> #=20
> # Wendy Maldonado
>
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