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Youngfox.
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posted 17 December 2003 09:43 AM      Profile for Youngfox.   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 

Just in time for (GENERIC CONSUMPTION OCCASION), the prototype "feminazi". I love the fact that right wing misogynists like to liberally apply the label to empowered women when the true Fascist pin-up girl is "swelling" their ranks with her propagandist hate speech and 1950's "values".

Now ladies I'm sure if you wait until you're spoken to and ask really politely your legally wedded husband might just let you buy the perfect gift for The Holy Imperial CHRIST-mas.

Who knows, perhaps after your Christian breadwinner hears the neo-con bleating of this pint-sized she-zealot he might just treat you to 55 seconds of lights out in the missionary position conservative bliss.

Order now!

Talking Ann Coulter doll

[ 17 December 2003: Message edited by: Youngfox. ]


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al-Qa'bong
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posted 17 December 2003 10:14 AM      Profile for al-Qa'bong   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
"Talking Action Figure."

What? The doll isn't just all talk, no action?

This whole political doll concept is deeply weird.

At first I thought the ad was a joke, but they market the batteries in the same way. I believe these people are serious.

There's a lesson about a golden calf in here somewhere....


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clearview
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posted 17 December 2003 10:33 AM      Profile for clearview     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I don't see anything wierd about a machine spouting prepackaged political phrases. The fact that it's all too real is what creeps me out.
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Youngfox.
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posted 17 December 2003 10:52 AM      Profile for Youngfox.   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Seeing as how her tight little plastic lips are shut she must (as in real life) talk out of her ass.
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Doug
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posted 17 December 2003 11:17 AM      Profile for Doug   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I was hoping for some sort of hot Gestapo agent and get this?
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mighty brutus
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posted 17 December 2003 11:43 AM      Profile for mighty brutus     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Ironically, the plastic action figure exudes much more humanity and warmth than the flesh-and-blood original!
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skdadl
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posted 17 December 2003 11:55 AM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Hi, guys.

My one problem with the thread title is that the expression "feminazi" has usually been applied to real feminists, one of which I think we can agree Ann Coulter is not.

Otherwise, I agree with the horror generally expressed on this thread, and more at the plasticity of the human manifestation than at that of the doll.


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athena_dreaming
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posted 17 December 2003 11:58 AM      Profile for athena_dreaming   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by skdadl:
My one problem with the thread title is that the expression "feminazi" has usually been applied to real feminists, one of which I think we can agree Ann Coulter is not.

I'm with skdadl on this. Having been called a feminazi myself on more than one occassion, it's not a word I normally like to see casually thrown about.


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clearview
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posted 17 December 2003 11:59 AM      Profile for clearview     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
wouldn't it be great if the term feminazi could be appropriated and popularized as referring to coulter and her ilk?
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Gir Draxon
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posted 17 December 2003 03:32 PM      Profile for Gir Draxon     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Wow... between this and the GWB doll, I could see myself getting into action figures again, except unlike my childhood, this time it will be purely for the thrill of annoying left-wingers

I just have one question: what does any of this really have to do with feminism?


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spatrioter
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posted 17 December 2003 03:43 PM      Profile for spatrioter     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I'm not sure, but I think it was an attempt to change the meaning of "feminazi" from a term applied to feminists to a term applied to female fascists, like Ann Coulter.
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Michelle
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posted 17 December 2003 06:47 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Exactly! I like it, personally. It's a great way for feminists to do a variation on "appropriating" terms that have been used against us - except instead of using it to describe ourselves, as a compliment, like the word "bitch", we're using it to describe someone who really is a female fascist who hates feminism.

Perfect! I love it.


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