Ooh! Good callback!
On a clear day, you can see her booty…
Like the way you’ve used this thread, you mean? Your one note is ‘I shall defend every liberal against every attack no matter what’.
Libertarian, I am not offended by Streisand’s silliness.
In the first place, there is some support for the notion that women of color tend to be larger and curvier in their beauty. The thousands of dark-skinned women that I have worked with in my profession haven’t seemed, in general, to be as obsessed with looking thin in the way that lighter-skinned women have. (This is great in matters of self-image, but tends to cause health related problems later on.)
I personally don’t see anything inferior about having a large butt. Do you?
I am surprised that you view that trait as a stereotype (rather than having some basis in reality for many women of color – moreso than lighter women).
Zoe, I was watching a show way back when that suggested that black teenage girls had a much healthier body image than white teenage girls.
Of course not, but what does that have to do with anything? Suppose the exchange had been verbal rather than a physical demonstration. We would have had:
Lipton: Was it the sound of you or the look of you?
Streisand: Do I look like I have a big fat black ass?
Now, do you see?
That makes no sense to me. It’s not the same thing! A physical demonstration like what she did leaves much to the imagination. She could be expressing praise and envy for black women’s butts. Or she could be insulting them. Given the context, I’m leaning more towards the probability of the former.
By saying “Do I look like I have a big fat black ass?”, it would be clear that she holds much disdain for the black back. And I would join you in being offended.
Give it up.
People tend to cut their friends some slack. If someone has a reputation as being fair-minded and tolerant, one minor slight is easily accepted as a friendly, good-natured gig. Someone who has a reputation as mean-spirited and bigoted doesn’t get the same indulgence.
It has everything to do with it. Are you saying that the statement “Black women sure have nice booties” is just as racially offensive and racist as: “Black women have giant fat asses”?
What if she had said, “I wanna do Janet Reno”?
Or, “Aliens meet for brunch in my lower intestine!”?
Or, “When you have to put words in someone’s mouth before you can object to what they say, it’s time to check your dosages”?
Das just kooky.
Yeah. Kooky, I reckon. Like I said, I’m more liberal than Lissener. He’s just a conservative with liberal stripes. He attacks me for attacking Streisand’s reckless behavior, rather than standing in support of the people she offended. He might as well change his name to Strom Thurmond Lite.
I just figured it out: Libertarian has been whooshing us all along!
You sure got me, man. 
“Lord, my load is heavy.” — Lily Tomlin :rolleyes:
What’s an oppressive ballot law?
And what does it have to do with Barbra Striesand’s ass?
Try to run on a third party ticket, and you’ll find out what oppressive ballot laws are. And screw her ass. Apparently, she can get away with murder.
Oh well if it’s MURDER she’s gettin away with, why didn’t you SAY so? that’s a whole different ball of wax. In fact it’s more like a kettle of fish. In fact, IT’S NOTHING AT ALL LIKE WHAT BARBRA DID, LIB.
Seriously, dude, you make ME look reasonable and froth free. Have a cup of tea, kick a dog, whatever you need to do. If you’re still feeling like this tomorrow, get help if it’s not too late.
At least when december used to pull stunts like this, he would eventually cop to being intentionally obtuse. I’m starting to miss the ole guy.
All I can say is that I am rooting for beach erosion for her place just cause she is who she is and has been who she is as long as I have known who she is and I didn’t like her then either.
“No matter how cynical I get, it’s impossible to keep up.” – Lily Tomlin :rolleyes:
And THIS is why I was cautious about accepting Libertarian’s apologetic return to the boards: he’s got the same old pattern going, of being sweet and wonderful for awhile, until he freaks out in offense over some non-issue. When people tell him it’s a complete non-issue, he gets all martyrdom complex on us and starts making absurd charges, such as equating shaking one’s booty with murder.
An apology means you won’t do it again. Oops.
Daniel
Ah, now we get down to the crux of the matter! You’ll have to take that up with Mr. Brolin.