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Thread ID: 5128 | Posts: 10 | Started: 2003-02-21
2003-02-21 00:02 | User Profile
Shock jock rails against Mexico's modern women
By Gretchen Peters
Special to The Christian Science Monitor
from the February 18, 2003
MONTERREY, MEXICO ̉ Radio talk-show host Oscar Muzquiz is searching for "La Fodonga del A̱o," or "The Female Slob of the Year."
On "Educating Your Woman," broadcast daily from this industrial northern city, husbands are invited to enroll their wives in the contest if they: sleep until 9 a.m., serve only packaged foods, watch TV all day, and rarely shave their legs.
"This is not life - living with someone who has become your greatest enemy," Mr. Muzquiz admonishes his male listeners. "Wake up, rise up ... and change your life!"
If Muzquiz sounds like Howard Stern in a sombrero, that's because, in part, he is. In addition to targeting the lazy housewife, Muzquiz crusades against "shameless" women who live independently, marry late, and work outside the home.
Social and economic changes in Mexico over the past three decades - from the increasing number of working women to the explosion of supermarkets, which cater to a rushed lifestyle - have transformed family culture here and left many men struggling to redefine their roles. Muzquiz's radio show is just one example of a country twitching as it witnesses a shift - some say the "Americanization" - of its family values.
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2003-02-21 00:57 | User Profile
For me, the title for "Female Slob Of All Time" goes to Rosanne Barr. :lol:
I know that sounds mean, but anyone who sings the National Anthem in such a disrespectful manner deserves to be called a slob.
2003-02-21 04:21 | User Profile
I don't know what she did to it (I heard the complaints, but not the thing). Not to excuse her, but I can describe one of the MASSIVE problems with doing the National Anthem in a stadium...
My mom sang the National Anthem in Shea Stadium (YAY!!) -- she was asked because she was a semi-famous singer on Long Island, and it was Long Island day or something -- they always check out potential singers very closely because it's extremmely HARD to sing in the Stadium... There is a SEVEN SECOND DELAY in the sound rolling back over you...
So, you sing "Oh say can you see, by the dawn's early light?" and then AS you're trying to sing the next line -- that first one comes back ROARing back at you, massively amplified and from all sides (and, because it's from all sides, it's actually in several different timelines...). If you are NOT a professional and you can't keep a death grip on where you ARE in the song, and at what pitch, you're lost! It's over!
So, I don't know whether or not that screwed up Roseanne, but it has screwed up lots of unprepared singers !(My MOM did just fine!!) I know, cause I was watching her on TV from Schenectady!)
2003-02-21 17:07 | User Profile
Good stock, mother, daughter... I'd buy some shares on the market, if available... "baahnerer yet waving..." baahnerer yet waving...baahnerer yet waving...baahnerer yet waving... (death grip on where I AM)... "O're the la-ah-and of the free-ee..." o're the la-ah-and of the free-ee...o're the la-ahnd of the free-ee...ditto, ditto, ditto...
"And the HOME...of the...(Knave?)" (well, today?) "I mean BRAAAAAHAAAAVE."
:rolleyes: "hOT DOGS... COLD BEER HERE..."
2003-02-21 18:33 | User Profile
I would very much like to see the anthem changed to something easier to sing. Something a little more contemporary. But not too contemporary. Something you might hum to yourself in a lounge. Something quintessentially American. Something like Volare maybe.
As a kid growing up in the 50's I witnessed untold suffering amongst my classmates caused by homework assignments in which we were forced - yes forced - to memorize all 3 stanzas of the anthem. This is child abuse - institutional child abuse - on a national scale. Then in true Marquis De Sade fashion the disciples of John Dewey who ran the death camps that masqueraded as public schools would actually force these unfortunate children who had just pulled an all nighter memorizing doggerel like "conquer we must when our cause it is just and this be our motto in God is our trust" into singing - yes singing - the monstrocity.
In what is surely one of the dark moments in American history, children would begin, like all kids do, earnestly trying to accomplish an impossible task knowing that the odds were stacked against them. How hopefully they began with their brave little "Oh say can you see".
The first cannonade to explode over their heads usually came around "Whose broad stripes and bright stars". This was where the low IQ'ers having the capacity to only memorize 4 lines of bad poetry gave up the ghost .
The first canister into the ranks always occured in the same spot. The spot that is the dark and bloody ground for anthem singers. I'm speaking of "and the rockets red glare". Many of the kids who survived this barrage would look around them to see who was still standing then immediately take one in the chest on "the bombs bursting in air".
It was always heartbreaking at this juncture to watch the gallant remnant take heart and press hopefully on knowing that the few stragglers left after "and the star spangled banner in triumph shall wave" would soon be given the coup de grace on "o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave".
In our school the only survivors were the same 2 kids every year.
One's father was an auctioneer and the others a used car salesmen.
2003-02-21 19:40 | User Profile
Why would any Mexican woman want to marry a Mexican man? All she gets is a man who expects her to cook him three meals a day, do all the housework, and have a litter of children so that he could go out to have fun with his mistresses and have litters with them. Who is the real slob?
2003-02-21 20:03 | User Profile
Originally posted by Robbie@Feb 20 2003, 18:02 ** Muzquiz's radio show is just one example of a country twitching as it witnesses a shift - some say the "Americanization" - of its family values. **
Those critics should define, "Americanized". Because there are surely differences in the disparate cultures of America, as we all know.
-Jay
2003-02-21 23:05 | User Profile
**For me, the title for "Female Slob Of All Time" goes to Rosanne Barr. **
She's the first thing that comes to mind for me as well.
2003-02-22 14:49 | User Profile
**For me, the title for "Female Slob Of All Time" goes to Rosanne Barr. **
Then thou hast never gazed upon the stubbled mug of Andrea Dworkin, sire.
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Although Dworkin - an uberJewess and anti-porn advocate - has had at least one moment of righteousness:
**"Not many people know that Dworkin shares a godson with her former idol, the Beat poet and gay liberationist Allen Ginsberg, or the story behind their split in the early Seventies. To hear Dworkin tell it, their final encounter went something like this:
On the day of [my godson's] bar mitzvah newspapers reported in huge headlines that the Supreme Court had ruled child pornography illegal. I was thrilled. I knew that Allen would not be. I did think he was a civil libertarian. But in fact, he was a pedophile. He did not belong to the North American Man-Boy Love Association out of some mad, abstract conviction that its voice had to be heard. He meant it. I take this from what Allen said directly to me, not from some inference I made. He was exceptionally aggressive about his right to f*ck children and his constant pursuit of underage boys...
Ginsberg told me that he had never met an intelligent person who had the ideas I did. I told him he didn't get around enough. He pointed to the friends of my godson and said they were old enough to f*ck. They were twelve and thirteen. He said that all sex was good, including forced sex...
Referring back to the Supreme Court's decision banning child pornography he said, "The right wants to put me in jail." I said, "Yes, they're very sentimental; I'd kill you." The next day he'd point at me in crowded rooms and screech, "She wants to put me in jail." I'd say, "No, Allen, you still don't get it. The right wants to put you in jail. I want you dead."**
2003-02-27 19:22 | User Profile
Originally posted by eric von zipper@Feb 21 2003, 18:33 **I would very much like to see the anthem changed to something easier to sing. Something a little more contemporary. But not too contemporary. Something you might hum to yourself in a lounge. Something quintessentially American. Something like Volare maybe.
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I agree (but not about, Volare).
I don't like the Star Spangled Banner. It is to music what limericks are to poetry. It is bland, importunate, unmelodic, and boring. .
Its music is easily pounded or pumped out of virtually any instrument but may be sung only by trained voices. Its words are to be read, not sung at all. They should be chiseled in stone on a monument to those who lived the tale they tell -- and that music should be left for those who wish to listen to it in private (for whatever peculiar reason).
In my opinion our national anthem should be, America, the Beautiful.
Now there is a delicious and inspiring piece of music. It is strong but gentle. It flows with the grace of Le Marseilles but does not give way to the belligerent power of Deutschland Uber Alles. Hearing it softly drift in slow marching time across a parade field on a summer morning breeze, lifted by harmonious brass and carried by muted snares as the colors smartly rise, stiffens the spine, tightens the skin, and forces hot tears to form behind the eyes.
Which is what a national anthem should do.