Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Hard News: Friday Music: History, motherfuckers, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
In the “Tennis Court” video, she looks like a goth alien and delivers a fierce stare at the camera (cf. Miley suggestively licking a sledgehammer).
So does that make Lorde appropriately and comfortably un-sexual, while it's OK to treat Miley Cyrus like a Whore of Babylon-bot? To my mind, that tends to say a lot more about the observers than the observed. For my money, Elvis Presley is ever bit as sexualized as Prince, even though the former never performed ditties like Head in nothing but a pair of bikini-briefs and a lascivious smirk.
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Hard News: Game Lorde, in reply to George Darroch,
Miley Cyrus riding demolition equipment naked, that’s sexualisation.
Lorde, yeah nah.
Oh, for fuck's sake -- wouldn't it be awesome if folks stopped defending Lorde against slut-shaming and sex-policing by pulling the same crap on Miley Cyrus? Here's a radical idea: Both Lorde and Miley Cyrus get to exercise their agency as sentient adult women however the fuck they want. Don't like it? Don't look.
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And this 16 year old is still being sexualised in the selling of her music –
Well, let’s just put a paper bag over her head and go back to concern trolling Miley Cyrus. I've seen the two videos alluded to once apiece – if that's what constitutes hyper-sexualization these days, I can't help but wonder if Mr Sweetman becomes tumescent in a stiff Wellington breeze.
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Hard News: Jonesing, in reply to Stephen Judd,
Gower is not well liked in Labour generally, on any side, I would have said.
Well, I know it's not going to be popular (kinda) defending Gower hereabouts but if he's as prone to just making shit up as some folks would have me believe it should be remarkably easy to not only get him sacked, but rendered basically unemployable. I'm more than a little tired of listening to politicians perfectly happy to shovel shit in journalists' direction, playing the outraged innocent when the bad karma bites.
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Hard News: The shaky ground of…, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
I'm not sure how useful my response to "I hate opera singing" would be, unless Kiri Te Kanawa's looking for a new rehearsal pianist. In which case, anyone who put me on the interview list for that one desperately needs to be sectioned.
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Perhaps I'm an old crank, but I've had psych assessments conducted by mental health professionals in a clinically appropriate setting. With all due respect to Mr Farrar, they were "accurate and helpful"; HR department voodoo, not so much.
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Hard News: Jonesing, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
So the National Party’s various flacks are supporting Jones because they really feel he’d be the best leader for Labour. Yeah right. (as they would say in Jones’s no doubt favourite ads for shite beer).
OK, Rich. Here's a crazy idea, perhaps they do in perfect good faith. Not an opinion I share, FWIW, but the world's funny like that. Meanwhile, I'm pretty sure you and everyone else around here -- remarkably few of whom will be current members of the National Party - are going to have an opinion or two when Key shuffles on back down the greasy poll. You won't actually have any influence over the outcome, but I'm pretty sure you'll appreciate not being presumed to be a trolling Labour party hack. Yes?
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Hard News: Jonesing, in reply to James Butler,
My working theory is that he’s the candidate who is most like a corporate neolib swinging dick, which means that for National (and certain other middle-age white men)…
Um, I can’t speak for the rest of the NatBorg (stupid fricking WiFi) but I don’t think most of us are as fascinated by these embarrassingly contrived photo-ops as we’re supposed to be. At least until our cousins across the pond finish their latest cycle of political Ick-Factor Australia.
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Hard News: Jonesing, in reply to Russell Brown,
I know what you mean. Idiot/Savant tends to fly into a rage when it emerges that a travelling minister has a wine with dinner, or entertains relevant contacts in a fairly standard fashion. For better or worse, this is how most of the world does business.
Up to a point, Mister Brown. While I did enjoy snarking my arse off at Shane's expense, what smacked my gob about Shane is that I thought he'd be a little more sensitive to the *cough* perception issues around being loose with other people's credit cards given his 'Business Browntable' background and his chairmanship of the Waitangi Fisheries Commission. The mainstream media isn't that good at catching the nuances, but it's not as if Shane himself is exactly shy about denouncing "iwi elites" making out like bandits while the flaxroots wither to receptive audiences.
Yeah, people can be extraordinarily forgiving -- sometimes more than they should, I guess. But the shit that sticks is the perception of hypocrisy.
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Hard News: Jonesing, in reply to Sam M,
Not sure why we expect politicians to subsidise their work requirements (schmoozing) with their personal cash.
Well, one could note that these same Ministers spend their Opposition careers going through the audit trails of senior civil servants and SOE managers for anything fragrant with potential political embarrassment. Never met a politician who lost a poll point or media hits denouncing bureaucratic "waste and extravagance". Practising what you so loudly preach to others isn't only a mark of character, it's also good politics.
Oh, and one may also note that when the annual baseline salary for a minister is currently over two hundred grand, I don't think picking up a $70 tab for two bottles of wine was a monstrous imposition on Phil Heatley. Especially at a party conference which he was attending as a National Party member NOT a minister of the crown.
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