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Tuesday, March 01, 2005

La Shawn on Media Fawning over Wonkette 

Over at the Evangelical Outpost, Joe adds his comments re LaShawn's complaint about the media's favoritism for Wonkette:

The AntiWonkette -- LaShawn Barber was asked to make an appearance on MSNBC’s Connected: Coast to Coast.

“"Finally,”" says LaShawn, "“women bloggers other than Wonkette are being invited to do talking head shows.”"

It'’s about time. I'’ve never understood the fascination with Wonkette and am constantly amazed by the media attention she receives. Her boss, Nick Denton, must have a heck of a publicist working for him. Or maybe the p*rntrepreneur just has incriminating photos of the executives at MSNBC.

I see a lot of men in general and younger men and women rewarding this kind of porn-ish, crude, vulgar writing style that Wonkette employs to get attention. If she didn't do that, they would all go away. I think her audience finds it tiltilating, like so edgy, it's a cultural device that inflates their ego.

It's like the people who consume porn and like to brag about it as their only badge of hipness, the social certificate that guarantees what their simpleton psychologies fear the most, being called a "prude!" In a liberal culture´s value totem pole, being a prude has now fallen way below the former bottom category in the hierarchy, the unlucky nerd.

It's also part of an interesting cultural phenomenon, a good deal of men just love to see women having the locker-room mentality that they never grew out of. Not only the attitudes, but obviously the behavior as well. It's kind of the same legitimizing mechanism homos and pedophiles seek, the quest for social approval. And what better legitimizing symbol than a woman doing it?

They can pretend not to be so mediocre if they are pushing the potty-mouthed style culture. Many different spheres of culture and social interactions are currently being locker-roomized. And the people who do it think it's big progress.

What is the difference between Wonkette and Paris Hilton? A little incisiveness perhaps. And the fact that Wonkette is probably just some destitute wench compared to Hilton. Who knows what Wonkette won't do for a little green. If her writing is any indication of where her morals are in such questions, there is nothing she won't do.

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There's more to Nipplegate than meets the naked eye.
The Sexual Revolution Brothel
Ace on Wonkette
Glorifying Rape - the New Deep Throat Movie
Great Kaballah Followers of Our Times
Clinton Style Schools - Where Cheap Is Exotic
Liberals and Aggression

Comments:
Hear, hear.

Whether one does porn or just talks about it, the stench is non-discriminating -- it'll taint both equally.

Sadly culture has gotten to the point where virtue is a joke and crassness a badge of honor.

Andy

PS. Came over from La Shawn's -- nice digs here. :)
 
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