tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post3630392703776297659..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-5277191139220455462013-07-17T18:51:05.240-04:002013-07-17T18:51:05.240-04:00Nuance. The Right doesn't do it, remember? T...Nuance. The Right doesn't do it, remember? The idea that someone can look sweet but harbor murderous thoughts is beyond them. Also, simple matters of fact elude them, such as that young men in their late teens do exhibit both boyish and adult features - smooth skin but facial hair, e.g., and can be posed to look either sweet or menacing depending on their clothes and props. Rugosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04348056243298249939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-48448762622228056592013-07-17T11:38:59.661-04:002013-07-17T11:38:59.661-04:00Uhm...
Reading, and reading comprehension, aren...Uhm...<br />Reading, and reading comprehension, aren't exactly even Malkin's pianissimo.Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-56532771868958849972013-07-17T11:32:58.315-04:002013-07-17T11:32:58.315-04:00Is calling him a monster different from GW insisti...Is calling him a monster different from GW insisting the 9/11 terrorists were cowards?<br /><br />Bill Maher got cancelled for pointing out how absurd that was.<br /><br />Just asking.Philo Vaihingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17150326435392881297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-51070278875641770662013-07-17T10:56:29.647-04:002013-07-17T10:56:29.647-04:00I'm not really all that interested in the curr...I'm not really all that interested in the current wave of media coverage by hysteria, but I do think the Dzhokhar cover reflects some problems for the viewer/reader's ability to have their preconceptions challenged. And not because Dzhokhar looks like a cross between a potto and an ephebic night clubber. But because Magazines repress images that don't fit their narrative and elevate images that are sexed up because that suits their narrative and appeals to a lazy readership.<br /><br />I guess what I mean is I don't care about the dzokhar photo as such, but I wonder whether such a photo could ever have been used to appeal to reader sympathies with Martin's pictures at the same age? The right wing was up in arms over cute baby pictures of Martin which they saw as exculpating him from the crime of being a black thug which they believed was unambiguously revealed in the (perfectly ordinary) pictures of him as a young black teen. In other words: they insisted that what he "really" was was revealed in his "selfie" pictures. And what Dzhokhar "really" was is occluded in his selfie picture. Because that which is innocent can never look evil, and that which is evil ought never to look innocent.<br /><br />But I guess I am disturbed by the fact that I think that our society is so incredibly racist that no picture of Martin can ever been seen by a majority of white viewers as childish, harmleslly sexual, adorable, big eyed megafauna (which is what Dzokhar's picture is producing) because we've been pre-structured to see all black males over the age of toddler as looking dangerous. Dzokhar's sexuality in this picture is feminized and stripped of danger and it is his sexuality and frailness which come to the fore. That's what the right wing is kicking about. Because they are aware that imagery is powerful and they can't figure out how to demonize this muslim/child image in the same way that Martin was pre-demonized and smeared just for wearing the hoodie.aimaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03956073425680585780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-23177079046782826262013-07-17T10:32:55.784-04:002013-07-17T10:32:55.784-04:00Perhaps part of the point of the cover is to illus...Perhaps part of the point of the cover is to illustrate that you can't judge a book by its cover. A terrorist can be the personable sexy-looking kid next door, meanwhile the beady-eyed grungy loner you steer clear of may be a kind hearted fellow who rescues stray cats.Laurie G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10268365677170951882noreply@blogger.com