Re: Guns n' stuff
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Fri, 14 May 1999 12:31:15 +1000
Robert Morris wrote:
> I guess you can play it from both sides of the fence,
Please, Robert ... I would like to propose a new element on Bananafish
right now:
[IA]
Irony Alert.
Robert, obviously I can appreciate your concerns. Half my time on this list
seems to be dedicated to trying to crush Australian stereotypes. Did you
ever see the documentary Blue Eyed, about the woman who teaches people
about racism by dividing up people into blue and brown eyed groups, one
inferior, one superior, to show how ingrained our prejudices are? This is
the sort of thing I was trying to touch on. I was trying to show by example
how hurtful it is to be regarded stereotypically. Fire with fire if you
like, or as my Mum puts it, `sinking down to their level'. I'm sorry if you
took it literally, but again:
[AI]
P.S. As a Simpsons connoisseur I would like to point out the episode in
which Homer begins a bowling team and they are beaten by a team called the
Racial Stereotypes. So yes, I am aware that the Simpsons deals in cliches
(: But I'm even more delighted when they don't.
Yours from the top of the Blue Mountains chanting along to a digeridoo
played by Savage Garden with Paul Hogan,
Camille
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