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Re: here comes honey boo boo

Posted by qtns2di4 on Monday, September 29 2014 at 10:24:15PM
In reply to here comes honey boo boo posted by madscience on Monday, September 29 2014 at 06:30:29AM


First of all, the cries of exploitation just make me roll my eyes. These days about everything that involves a kid is exploitation. Unless of course it's schooling or medicalizing, then it is not. No, it's not exploitation. It's life as it really is. And may I say she looks to be having fun while at it? That is more than I can say about so many other things... Child having fun? EXPLOITATION! Gawd, could we have the Marxists back? At least they had a workable definition of exploitation!

Sure, they are unusual by TV standards. But why must we be offended at how people live? I have no more right to be offended by their lives (and I am not, but that's a separate thing) than others, say, Munichers, to be offended by mine. Yes, I see that there is an Orientalizing perspective in the presentation of the show, but I don't think it could have been done any other way {because isn't this true about any TV reality or documentary using cultural differences as part of its premises,}? and I certainly see that most (and the worst) of the Orientalizing is being done by the viewers and especially the critics.

Of course I do like other similarly Orientalizing genres, which posh critics have called Exploitation. Such as the Nazi-chic genre; and the Cannibal genre. (Both are mostly Yooropean, and I should not expect for the unwashed Merkin masses here, except probably Dante, to know anything of them, though) But unlike the Nazi-chic which to a point involves a last revisitation of a historical trauma through fiction in order to purge it without having to fall into PTSD amnesia or revisionism; and the Cannibal which to a point involves the primal fear, by the West, of having left in this green Earth no place anymore to conquer, and because of it no place to hide, no place to be free, no place to be safe, but also introducing to the visual field of the West people, peoples, cultures, and customs which are alien, strange, and sometimes, for Westerners, cruel, inhumane, barbaric or degrading. Both are very intelligent genres. But both pray on very deep emotions in their intended viewers. And they are called Exploitation because of that. Because they look like cheap thrills. But those thrills are anything but cheap. They are very well thought out to invoke very deep reactions. About Nazism and WW2, and about the clash between uncontacted or little contacted peoples and Modernity.

Ask yourselves why a Redneck reality show, in my view, fits in the same paragraph as Nazi-chic and Cannibal genres.

And hey, Redneck is becoming a genre. After Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, wasn't there Duck Dynasty?

Should be regarded as refreshing that finally not all of the Whites on TV are middle and upper class guys with model looks who live in big cities and if they even knew a small town, left it behind when they went away for college or military service...





As for she herself... Her facial features are pretty. It is because of her fat that her face changes shape and doesn't show her best - particularly the bottom of her face masculinizes, but it isn't bone as it is in a boy or man, but fat. This is also why she generally improves with makeup unlike the normal LG or woman who does not. But she is pretty. And although she is fat... at her age... I'd totally hit that. Call me past her puberty though and that may change. But although she is probably about the fattest I can stand on a LG, at that point I still think it's moar to grab rather than too much to bite. At her age at least.





qtns2di4

Cuteness is to die for
Cuteness cannot fail
Cuteness knows no limit
Cuteness will prevail







Come on, isn't it obvious who the choice is?





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