Judy's Native American name may indeed be splitting hairs !
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote:
>
> Perfect way to end my "posting week," by pointing
> out that the *other* self-proclaimed "feminist" on
> this forum seems to *agree* with Judy characterizing
> another woman as a slut or prostitute *on the basis
> of her hairstyle*.
>
> Look up the word "slattern." Note its synonyms: "slut"
> and "prostitute." Note definitions such as: "a pros-
> titute who attracts customers by walking the streets"
> and "a loose woman."
>
> This from the two "feminists" who suggested that me
> pointing out that IMO Sarah Palin is a very ordinary-
> looking woman and that the only reason anyone thinks
> otherwise is because of makeup was "misogyny" and
> "hatred of women."
>
> The two "feminists" seem to feel that *they* are able
> to refer to *another woman* as a "slattern" FOR NO
> OTHER REASON THAN THAT THEY DON'T LIKE
> HER HAIRCUT. That's not "hatred of women."
> But pointing out that Sarah Palin has to wear a ton
> of makeup to look good on camera is. Go figure.
>
> Now, having "set the stage" for the meltdown that will
> follow today and the early part of next week, I shall
> again withdraw and allow the two unpersons to make my
> points for me. Have a nice "rest of Friday" folks...I'm
> off to Barcelona for the evening while they sit in their
> houses and plot their revenge. :-) :-) :-)
>
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchydog@> wrote:
> >
> > It's all about Judy....again. Didn't Barry make a formal
> > declaration that she was a non-person? Didn't he vow to
> > not read her posts beyond the message view because he's too
> > cowardly to admit to himself how badly she mops the floor
> > with him EVERY TIME? Now he's cruising for a bruising...
> > again? Pass the popcorn. This is going to be fun.
> >
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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_reply@> 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*.
> > >
> >
>
