Bingo.
It’s projection on the part of the researchers, because they don’t want their ‘masculinity’ threatened. (Scare quotes, because of course that’s not real masculinity.)
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Oh, no. Wonderful article. I’ve chewed on it over the past day or so.
I was just thinking as I clicked it that it must be Amanda Palmer.
And that’s probably why I listened to Dresden Dolls on my commute
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So today I went home early from work because of a sinus infection – wound up sleeping a bit during the afternoon/evening, and will no doubt sleep a lot tonight.
In the meantime, I watched some of the “lost” Carol Burnett Show episodes on Prime. And I (re)discovered:
Carol and Vicky Lawrence play The Doily Sisters in the S5 series finale, as part of a parody of Betty Grable films (also I think spoofing The Dolly Sisters). At one point they go to the front in WWI to entertain the troops, and are such an inspiration Jenny/Carol is asked to lead the troops in the charge.
Wearing her showgirl outfit, which is a red, white, and blue bodysuit with gold trim. Which she had covered with a cape until it was time for her to do her song and dance number.
And she not only leads the charge, but captures a German machine gun nest. Later, a German who was captured during that charge shows up in Monaco with a figuring facial scar and proposes marriage to Jenny.
(At this point, let me mention this was one small segment of an hour-long comedy/variety show, and everything I’ve described above was funny as hell. Carol Burnett et al deserve way more recognition than they get.)
But helloooooo… Anyone else seeing the parallels with the recent Wonder Woman movie??? Or am I just having pattern recognition because Lyle Wagoner is in it?
Watching these shows, it’s really hitting me how much Burnett informed just not my feminism, but my overall outlook on life. She packs a lot in there with the comedy.
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Yeah it does ring a bit of a bell. Also, that sounds like am amazing episode. Carol Burnett was just the best, and that show was funny as hell.
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Again, is it a bad song, trying to take seriously abortions and how we struggle to deal with them?
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Sigh. No.
It’s the Paul Anka part. If that’s not coming across, it’s hard to explain.
Okay… I guess I don’t know Paul Anka well enough to get your meaning…
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I would have thought my response about the ear worm would have made that obvious. Who would say that about Amanda’s song, rather than 70’s pop?
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tonight fake-ass “feminist” Meghan Murphy and her two white supremacist friends (Caylan “Scheer’s Star Candidate” Ford and Lindsay “beginning to be a white nationalist” Shepherd) held an event at the Toronto Public Library.
and got massively counter-protested.
“tradfems” and “tradwives” are not feminists; they’re Y’all Qaeda’s front column.
Update 1:
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It is my (probably vain) hope that the TPL planned for it to go this way all along.
“Oh yeah, you can totally book a meeting room. And we’ll publicise it in our newsletter and on our web site! Because you want people to show up, right?”
Probably not. But it’s nice to dream that’s how it went.
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So no free condoms in the boys’ bathroom?
Does he mean this? (WARNING: Extreme Cruelty by High School Girls, Nudity, Crude References to Menstruation):
I’m gonna be 55 in less than two weeks, and I STILL have a problem watching this scene. Nobody ever picked on me that bad in high-school, but it wouldn’t’ve surprised me if they had.
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Personally, I have problems with this:
- Bonnie Raitt’s dad, John, was a Broadway and movie musical star. This certainly helped her, whether she chose to exploit it or not; doors were there for her that would’nt be for others, but opening them was her choice. At the very least, she has the genes for what she does.
- Any time someone has to heap praise on one of their heroes in person and then have a dialogue with said hero about it, I get kinda nauseated. If you’ve ever seen "That’s Entertainment!’ or its sequels, when Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire get together and start praising each other to the stars…well, you’ll see what I mean.
- The intro to the link on FB - by my musical partner: “This could be a very educational/inspirational read for female singers/musicians.” Not for this one! I can’t even READ IT.
What’s WRONG with me? Aren’t I s’posed to be all OOOH WOW TWO FAMOUS WOMEN ONE I’VE NEVER HEARD OF! Instead, I feel crabby and snarly about it.
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Bonnie Raitt is actually someone I reference to show that ‘bursting onto the music scene’ isn’t always the real story. She sang for DECADES before she was ‘discovered’. She put in her time. Maybe someone else could be argued that they used their family connections, but not Bonnie Raitt. (My opinion, obviously!)
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I meant mostly her talent. I don’t think she exploited the fact of who her dad was, but she could’ve, I s’pose. And I know she’d been playing for years before she hit gold. It’s just the fact that this is allegedly “inspiring” that bugs me.
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