This followup to a followup is just for fun, because we all know that Judy is out there somewhere, chomping at the bit to come running back to FFL and call me a LIAR for saying the things below. Let's compare my characterization of her freakout over "unkempt hair" to her *actual words* on the subject, shall we?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > Just as a followup, doncha think it's > fascinating that a supposed "feminist" > throws away several posts 1) picking a > nit about another woman's "unkempt" > appearance as if that somehow offended > her, and 2) does so by suggesting that > it is somehow "inauthentic" for a woman > in any era to wear her hair the way she > wants to? > > Presumably the ideal woman Judy has in > mind would submit to what the society > she lived in (*especially* other women > who bitchily criticized her "unkempt" > appearance) wanted from her, rather than > express her own taste in hairstyles. :-) The following -- emphasis mine but the words Judy's -- is what she actually *said* about Mary McDonnell's hair after seeing "Dances With Wolves." (*IF* she ever saw it, that is...I think we all know there is a possibility she never did, and is basing these rants purely on what she was told about the film by someone else, as she's done in the past with "Apocalypto" and other films.) Note the...uh...lack of equanimity in the following quotes. Note that Judy is almost *out of control* with anger at having been forced to view the hairstyle of a "slattern" (her term) on another woman. Note that this supposed "feminist" wants the right to impose *her* ideas of a "proper hairstyle" on another woman. Ponder its meaning and have as much fun laughing at "feminist" Judy as I have. Doncha get the feeling that someone in her past said all of these things to Judy about *her* hair, and now years later she is still so programmed by that as to feel that she has the right to say them about another woman's? Some "feminist." > Yeah, but my point was that *her hair was just slovenly > looking*. *You'd think if she wanted so badly to belong to > the Lakota culture, she'd have found a way to keep it > neat*. You can make perfectly good braids with curly > hair, and hers wasn't all *that* curly, really just > wavy. > > I don't know, maybe they thought the *messy hair* kept > her from looking too glamorous. But she was by far the > most prominent woman in the film, and *it gave the > impression that she had somehow become wild and savage* > She'd been taken in by the tribe > when she was a little girl. *I don't think at that point > she would have had a cultural identity that would have > made her grow up never combing her hair and looking > like a slattern*. Her real mother would never have let > her look like that. > *That made it appear as though she never combed her > hair*? What were the filmmakers thinking *to allow > her to choose to look slovenly*, in contrast to all the > Indian women? > > Even if they couldn't bring themselves to have her > wear braids, there was no other way they could find > to style her hair so it looked like she took care > of it? Loose and flowing could have worked, but > there was no reason for it to be *matted and tangled*. > > Were they afraid she wasn't a good enough actress > to put the character across convincingly as not > "uptight" unless *her hair was a snarled, dirty- > looking mess* to convey how unconstrained and > spontaneous she was? > > Even at her wedding to Dunbar, when she's dressed > to the nines in gorgeous festive Indian garb, *her > hair looks like a rat's nest*.
