Sure, I agree she's a self serving shitstain.
I dunno. I was in the National gallery the other week, listening to the audio descriptions and so on. Reading that bit just put me in mind of some of those classic paintings I think.
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Sure, I agree she's a self serving shitstain.
I dunno. I was in the National gallery the other week, listening to the audio descriptions and so on. Reading that bit just put me in mind of some of those classic paintings I think.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
That is a brilliant pic. We must give PD love to the mothers,
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
I have no fondness for Crabapple, but that piece on pretty girl martyrdom imagery is being willfully misread on twitter by people who are rightly pissed off about her liberal imperialist gibberish about Syria. Her defence on twitter - that it's not an article about Venezuela at all - is basically correct.
There is actually something pretty creepy about dying-pretty-girl imagery, particularly when it becomes an iconic representation of a cause or issue.
There is actually something pretty creepy about dying-pretty-girl imagery, particularly when it becomes an iconic representation of a cause or issue.
rekil
to menny cranks
No ambiguity there. Even before that, she had picked her side.
Can anyone find this BBC report?
I can only find this one on BBC Mundo, there's no mention of pro-government militias.
The bombshell bit is wrong as well afaik.
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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/02/tories-own-future-left-trapped-in-past
John Harris savages the Left,
is he up against the wall?
Lo Siento.
Second As Farce
He's making a very old and uncontroversial critique of the soc dem/statist left. And what he proposes instead is proper dross. The state can't hold back the neo-lib juggernaut, so what will? Neighourliness apparently
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
I found a google book (Household words by Stephanie Ann Smith) that said the term was originally coined in 1708 to describe a new kind of weapon - incendiary bombs falling from the sky - but quickly became the term used for any unexpected event. It was first used as slang to describe a woman during the Depression, some years before WWII.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
To not do five minutes of checking on the internet is really lazy in my opinion. Very sloppy writing - I won't call it journalism. But I suppose a film title doesn't fit with narrative she was trying to put across in the article.
J Ed
Follow Back Pro Expropriation
No, it's unabashed bullshit which parrots the idiotic claims of the opposition. Nasty black and mestizo commies (manipulated by smarter white Cuban commies/Jews) are killing our pretty middle-class white girls - because that is all they have and it is all that she has.
Molly Crabapple is a twitter Christopher Hitchens, getting paid to use a very thin veneer of progressive politics to bludgeon those actually working for a better world.
Theisticle
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Because of course, the nasty Maduro regime must be lying. Way to be objective.
Is meant to make an ironic point how women in death are objectified? Because she's doing the exact same thing. The focus on blood, breathing tubes, "A policeman’s foot was caught one second before coming down on her bare stomach."
A) There's no evidence that Saint Agatha's torturers were pagan (more likely Roman.) As the BBC point out for Saint Lucy:
"The grisly story of Saint Lucy, a virgin martyr from Syracuse, whose death at the hands of the Romans resulted in her becoming the patron saint of the blind."
Crabapple also excludes the point that God restored Saint Lucy's eyes after torture ( if you believe in such legends.) Another explanation for her eyes on the plate is that Lucy is the patron saint of blindness. Lucy's name means "light", with the same root as "lucid" which means "clear, radiant, understandable." So it does not always reflect her torture. But again, with these stories that become legend, it can be hard to separate fact from fiction. As the BBC's profile of this saint points out:
"Lucy was born in 283 AD in Syracuse, Sicily, and was killed there in 303 AD during Roman persecution under the Emperor Diocletian.
Most of the other details about Lucy are probably fabrications."
According to this Catholic site (https://www.catholic.org/saints/female.php) there are 783 female saints. Not everyone is a victim of torture or male violence (if such incidents took place.) However, she picks just two brutal example to make some elongated point.
She then goes on to contradict herself with Marianne (who was rightly identified as an allegory for liberty and Republic.) She was not a real person.
But if women are always victims in war, why is one of the most iconic paintings of Marianne feature her leading men into battle?
If she had read anything by Postman, she'd understand for that many years, we have lived in an image-based culture. Especially in the age of social media, it is easy for images to be misconstrued (like in Iran.)
But it's also a stretch to suggest that the virality means "images lose politics, lose geography, lose protest."
Is "our sustained gaze" also yours Molly? You did make sure to fill in the details of their deaths. Images of saints change throughout history. They are not one image. So on that point she is wrong. Also, Marianne of France is not a saint. She is the iconography of revolution.
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Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
I see from David Graeber's twitter feed that he's been evicted from his New York home on a 'technicality'. He is alleging a wider pattern of state harassment against some Occupy activists (presumably not the ones who monetised their hotness). Anyone else know more about this one?
rekil
to menny cranks
Looks like someone is on the ball, sort of. "CORRECTION: The BBC did not report that Genesis Carmona was killed by pro-government militias, the post has been updated to reflect that."
Now the line says "Some reported she was killed by pro-government militias."
Some who?
Now the line says "Some reported she was killed by pro-government militias."
Some who?
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Theisticle
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It's also worth noting that Crabapple referred to the democratically-elected Marudo government as a "regime," which implies the opposite.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
no it doesn't. it means a government, esp. an authoritarian one. we're not really strangers to authoritarian regimes in this country, not after thatcher and blair.
Theisticle
Well-Known Member
Oh God.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
You're right, but in this sort of context, 'regime' is used with the implication that it's one of those bad authoritarian regimes.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
everything after 'right' is froth
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Is your life really this empty, pixie old chap?
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i'm just bored
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
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Idris2002
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can't do sound at work
I did not expect this. Not even with headphones?
Theisticle
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