Miley Cyrusâ 9 year old sister Noah (yeah, ya heard me right, Noah!) has once again been slutty in public.
Said sluttiness may or may not have something to do with the not-so-innocently named âOoh! La, La Coutureâ fashion line that the kid is launching, a line which may or may not be including lingerie but which is nonetheless far too slutty for such young kids.
Obviously, this kind of thing is not good for kiddies â it puts their scantily-clad bodies in a place where their minds donât really want to follow, sets them up as pedophile bait, and teaches them that sexiness and conspicuous consumption are what life is about. Tori leader David Cameron has actually done the right thing in this case by threatening to introduce laws to deal with corporate sexualization of children, but itâs a sad state of affairs if society has to go that far to prevent something as obviously wrong as nine year olds dressing like denizens of the Playboy mansion.
And just in case you thought little Noahâs only boundary problems lie in her fashion choices, check out this video of her and all her little girly friends pole dancing! Excuse me, but I have to go and throw up nowâŠ
German woman Sabine R. didnât like losing custody of her son to the boyâs dad, so she killed them both then set fire to the crime scene.
When her ex came round to pick up the kid, the 41 year old lawyer shot him dead then bashed and suffocated the five year old boy.
She then made her way to a hospital where she killed a male nurse before being shot to pieces by the cops, who had apparently failed to notice her tits.
On the way to said hospital, Sabine R. took shots at bystanders, most if not all of which, seem to have been male. And even once inside the hospital she seems to have ignored all the estrogen and gone straight for a male victim! How âbout that!
Coincidence? Or do we have a hate crime on our hands?
Since it appears that this woman wasnât nutty enough to leave behind numerous rants against the opposite sex, and that the media isnât likely to give the anti-male angle any serious exploration, we may never truly know what drove this scumbag. But given the preponderance of male victims this seems more likely than not to be a misandry-driven rampage on par with George Sodiniâs misogynist attack at a fitness class in 2009.
A Polish pop singer with the unlikely handle of Dorota Rabczewska (thankfully she is better known as Doda, presumably because even the other Poles canât pronounce her surname) is looking down the barrel of a two year jail sentence for having offended Christian sensibilities by suggesting their favorite page turner was written by drug-addled winos! And you thought the weasels at NOW were overly sensitive.
The 26 year old Mensan made a television appearance during which she explained that the dinosaur view of history was better supported than the idea that the universe was created in six days by The Angry Old Man Who Lives In The SkyâŠ.
âit is hard to believe in something written by people who drank too much wine and smoked herbal cigarettes.â
Not exactly a cartoon of the prophet Mohamed with a bomb in his turban, but in Catholic Poland it was close enough so the wankers had her charged under the countryâs Draconian blasphemy laws.
According to  some man-child too weak to get through life without kidding himself that after itâs all over heâs going to spend eternity drinking tea and watering houseplants in godâs mansionâŠ
âIt is clear that Doda thinks that the Bible was written by drunkards and junkies,â Ryszard Nowak, chairman of the ironically named Christian group âCommittee for the Defence Against Sectsâ screamed hysterically whilst rending his garments and gnashing his teeth.
âI believe that she committed a crime and offended the religious feelings of both Christians and Jews.â
Either that or she made a slightly offensive joke. And as for offending the Jews I donât see them filing charges, perhaps because after centuries of persecution and inquisitions they are wary of Christian nutters.
Though I see no point in making references to booze and weed when going on about whoever it was that wrote the bible, neither do I believe in writing laws that allow fundamentalist loons to play Christian Taliban, so let me put aside my usually tactful and diplomatic ways and say it straight â people who take the bible literally are idiots, weaklings and fools. Either that or drug-addled winos.
PS
I think she should get a pass just for being proof that not all smart women are ugly.
After months of diligently ignoring this Lady Gaga person, I finally got down to listening to her stuff and have found her to be both a delightful discovery and a bit of a worry.
Her music, which she apparently writes herself, is catchy, addictive and just plain exciting, but that alas is where Gagaâs virtues end. This horse-faced bastard daughter of Marilyn Manson and Madonna Ciccone differs from other pop tarts only in that she has some serious songwriting ability, a head full of intellectual and artistic pretensions, and hasnât yet put out a sex tape.
Not only are the former Stefani Germanottaâs videos replete with the bacchanalia so beloved of contemporary youth, but like so many of todayâs empty headed young women, little Stefani insists on telling us what she thinks, and what she thinks is pretty much the dark crap one would except from a girl who spent her school years being the class weirdo.
From glamorizing dysfunctional relationships in âBad Romanceâ, to excusing female sexual dishonesty in âPoker Faceâ ( a song apparently inspired by Gagaâs habit of fantasizing about women while getting it on with men ) to declaring career to be more important than relationships (which of course marks her as strong and independent rather than as âcommitmentphobicâ) to her promotion of the worst aspects of gay culture, in Lady Gaga we have the embodiment of everything that is wrong with the modern feminist woman: a delusional sense of self-importance that makes Ted Turner look like a shrinking violet; an obsession with sex that makes Wilt Chamberlain look like a eunuch; and a fixation on external appearance that makes Donatella Versace look like Mother Teresa.
And yes, contrary to her previous statements, Little Ms Empty Vessel now identifies herself as âa little bit of a feministâ and is starting to spout a lot of unsurprising rhetoric such as claims that the video for âBad Romanceâ is about âhow the entertainment industry can, in a metaphorical way, simulate human trafficking â products being sold, the woman perceived as a commodity,â and whining about women in the music industry not being allowed to sing about sex!
Then thereâs her AIDS charity work which of course is all about the wiminz, her claims that her sexuality is commented on because she is a woman rather than because her ass is constantly in everyoneâs faces, and her supposed bisexuality, something which could previously have been seen as catering to male fantasies but which now takes on the covert separatist message of âI donât need men.â Before you know it, little Stefani will be whining about the wage gap and opening a girls-only school in Africa!
So as Mamma Ciccone gets gnarlier and older and starts to stink up the castle, the Feminist Pop Icon crown seems about to be picked up by this little chippie, and the postmodern feminist blitherings will continue for at least another twenty years. Perhaps weâll get lucky this time, maybe Gaga will live up to her name and go mad like Britney Spears or use her very real talent to become another Kate Bush or Patti Smith, but we all know where the smart money is and as usual it is not with the sane alternative.
No doubt there are people who will say this is all harmless, that Lady GaGa is being ironic and everyone knows it, or that pop culture doesnât have that big an impact on kids anyway.
To the former I say that a bunch of adult music critics may see her shenanigans as irony, but that the average teenager consuming Gagaâs product canât tell the difference between postmodern irony and warm apple pie, especially not when their hormones have just been kicked into hyper-drive.
To the latter I would say that the impact of popular culture on youth canât be overstated. Here in Australia we have wiggers, but you know what we donât have? We donât have black Americans, just aboriginals and a few African immigrants. Yet we have thousands of kids in Sydney who act and talk like members of a subculture that they have only ever experienced through, you guessed it, the media.
The Jacques Derrida wannabes may be able to see different layers of meaning in GaGaâs lyrics and interviews, but the intellectuals of the world arenât a bunch of teens looking to the media for their lifeâs philosophy. What the ordinary teenager sees and hears from Little Ms BlahBlah is simple â get laid, get famous, be superficial, and donât worry about who you lie to or who you cheat on, itâs all good. And thatâs a message that does nobody any favors, except maybe Lady GaGa and her bank account.
In case you have no idea who iâm talking about, hereâs the video for Bad Romance. At the time of writing it has been viewed over 160 million times and thatâs on YouTube alone â ignore her at your childrenâs peril.
Having previously been tortured by Lars Von Trierâs âDogvilleâ and âDancer In The Darkâ, I elected to see âAntichristâ only because of the evil woman theme. Let me make this clear â Lars Von Trier is a hack. He is an Ed Wood with pretensions to Ingmar Bergmanâs throne, nothing more.
In âAntichristâ however, Von Trierâs dream-inspired and depression-driven script and cinematographer Anthony Mantleâs gorgeous and hallucinatory imagery make for one of the most remarkable horror movies of the last ten years, a slab of nightmarish atmosphere not easily forgotten.
The focus of this article however, is not on the artistic merits of the movie but rather on the way it was received. I must point out that this piece is being written for those who have already seen the film. If you have not yet seen it, please stop reading now as major spoilers are included. And if you are planning to see it, beware of the scene in which the female lead gives herself an impromptu clitorodectomy â thereâs also a scene where the male leadâs penis gets hit with a huge piece of wood, but alas weâre all too inured to that by now.
(Those who havenât seen the movie are probably asking themselves whatâs up with the creepy fox and the title âChaos Reigns.â The fox is one of the animal characters, and at one point he stops eating his own guts, looks up at the male lead and in a deep, distorted voice utters the words âChaos Reigns!â. Itâs that kind of movie.)
Most of the attention the film received focused on its transgressive aspects, aspects supposedly embodied in the scenes of genital violence. This however, is the mainstream media being disingenuous â while Antichrist is an extremely transgressive film, what makes it so are not the scenes of genital violence, but rather the representation of women as evil at a time in history when women are the only sacred cows left in Western society. I think it is clear that Antichrist is a statement aboutfemale evil, not merely about one evil female. This is shown not only in the female leadâs belief that the female sex is evil, but more importantly at the end of the movie, when the husband is passed by dozens of women apparently making their way to Eden, presumably to learn whatever dark lesson his wife learnt on her previous stay.
Imagine if you will a hypothetical version of this film in which all violent acts are retained but in which it is the male sex which is portrayed as evil. Would the outrage have been there? I doubt it. Most writers for the mainstream media already believe men are violent trash, so why would there be any great outcry that Von Trier was agreeing with them? What happened with Antichrist is that a mere man stepped outside the rules and made a movie portraying women as evil. Not a woman, as in Basic Instinct or Misery, but women as a group, and it is this forbidden act of rebellion which begat the outraged reaction to the film.
Do I agree that women are evil? No, but the way the message was received is a good illustration of the cultural rules as they stand â when it comes to women, we must hear no evil, see no evil, and above all, speak no evil.