Now Accepting Applications
It’s the Drowned and Starved Polar Bear Club! Overly Dramatist Eve Ensler with a great idea at Huffington Post:
I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it’s their snowy whiteness or their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have never seen one in person or touched one. Maybe it is the fact that they live so comfortably on ice. Whatever it is, I need the polar bears.
I think I need to see her touch one. That could be dramatic. OK, we’ll skip the extended blah blah blah about religion-clinger’s antitheticalness to feminism, the gun-toting, etc. Somebody cork that woman’s monologue hole. I’m reading this so you don’t have to.
I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this election in our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the future not just of the U.S., but of the planet. It will determine whether we create policies to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for humans … It will determine whether America is a free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism and aggression.
“Vagina Monologues” playwright needs to get her head out of her … never mind. But I actually agree with that last sentence. This election could well determine whether America is a free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism and aggression. Fer Chrissakes, vote McCain-Palin!
If the Polar Bears don’t move you to go and do everything in your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, “Drill Drill Drill.” I think of teeth when I think of drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination. I think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain.
When I think of mindless repetition, I think of the Democratic Congress pushing meaningless, grandstanding, counter-productive legislation, like that piece of crap the other night on offshore drilling. (Someone tell Eve that her guy Obama and the Dem Cong are trying to make it look like they favor the painful destructive brain-emptying rape of drilling, though in fact that was a piece of political drama intended to allow them to be for drilling while being against it.)
I’d encourage Ensler and like-minded sisters all the way from Manhattan across the Great Flyover to La-la to maintain a high level of drama. It could greatly influence women everywhere … to vote McCain-Palin!
Meanwhile, that Drowned and Starved Polar Bear Club sounds like fun. Guns, meat, internal combustion engines, and a red hot mama wearing bear claws. As the lead-off commenter at Blair’s site noted, very “Mad Max.” There will be snacks. (”Squirrel Melts,” NSF people who are squeamish about carnivorous fundamentalism.)
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:18 am Comments (4) on Thursday, September 18, 2008
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September 18th, 2008 at 11:56 am
From the picture, it appears Ms. Ensler desperately needs industrial strength meds and one of those white jackets with the fashionable straps. Or possibly just a good drilling.
Squirrel, ew. Might as well eat rat.
September 18th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
She’s an idiot, but still, “do it for the polar bears” is a welcome respite from the usual “do it for the children.”
September 18th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Caution re those Squirrel Melts!
Do NOT, repeat: do NOT eat the brains or spine, as they have been implicated in a version of Mad Cow/CJD.
September 18th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
If she is so concerned about the polar bears starving, she should do the right thing. Go to Alaska and offer herself up to the bears as a meal. They are not picky, they will eat her.