oh, for crying out loud. dame edna is a FICTIONAL character. she's actually a man in drag. if you're not familiar with her material, she does tend to say some stuff that is off-color. she's meant to play a whacky old lady. she spouts nonsense like that. it's a S A T I R I C A L piece. i'm sure everyone has a right to be offended, but does that mean that it justifies the right to suppress the freedom of the press ? vanity fair's editors chose what they do and do not publish. you choose to read or not to read. it's simple as that.
there are plenty of neo-nazi web pages on there. some, i'm sure, of worse content than what was published in vanity fair. does that mean that we should actively go and harass their ISPs to take down their pages ? no, of course not ! because that's freedom of the press, freedom of the speech. take it away, and you're left with dictatorial governments like china. you may not agree with what is written, that's fine. write a letter; that is your right to do so, just as it is their right to choose to read it. but boycotting ? that's a bit fanatical, imho. what happened to all those asians who were 'boycotting' abercrombie and fitch for those slurring t-shirts ? i still see them shopping in hordes. and, honestly, i think political correctness has gone WAY overboard lately. it's a little one- sided and ppl have way too many branches up their arses. i guess it's the drama du jour. -nat 'i'm not boycotting vanity fair because, hell, i don't read it anyways' ___________________________________________________________________ The D mailing list http://www.djdenise.com/ Check out the new forum! http://www.djdenise.com/forum/
