Elvis and Priscilla
I want to offer a tribute to all Opal’s hard work and inspiration on holiday cards. I humbly ask permission to enter into the realm of “inspired by” correspondence by finding L an elastic-bodiced, puffy-sleeved lavender shirt.
I already have my walking stick.
“While Fey may play at being dumpy on 30 Rock, the fate of her peers who are actually considered unattractive by the entertainment business is markedly more dismal. Her SNL castmate and friend Rachel Dratch was often used on the show for desexualized and unappealing characters, like an inbred freak or pre-adolescent boy. In 2008 she left Saturday Night Life after 11 years to commit full-time to her role on 30 Rock as Jenna Maroney.
After the pilot taping, Fey and producer Lorne Michaels fired Dratch and replaced her with Jane Krakowski. At the time Michaels said the change was made because Dratch would ‘be able to portray many more characters and get more screen time,’ but actually she appeared on 30 Rock three times in small parts and was not asked back after 2009.
‘I am offered solely the parts that I like to refer to as The Unfuckables,’ Dratch deadpanned to Slate. ‘If you saw me walking down the street, you wouldn’t point at me and recoil and throw up and hide behind a shrub. But by Hollywood standards, I’m a troll.’”
via Bitch
Our work of love should be to reclaim masculinity and not allow it to be held hostage to patriarchal domination. There is a creative, life-sustaining, life-enhancing place for the masculine in a non-dominator culture. And those of us committed to ending patriarchy can touch the hearts of real men where they live, not by demanding that they give up manhood or maleness, but by asking that they allow its meaning to be transformed, that they become disloyal to patriarchal masculinity in order to find a place for the masculine that does not make it synonymous with domination or the will to do violence.bell hooks, The Will to Change, p115. (via tiledsarenomore)
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