Cameron Diaz has committed a fashionista faux pas in Peru:
While explor[ing] the Inca city of Machu Picchu* high in Peru’s Andes, Diaz wore over her shoulder an olive green messenger bag emblazoned with a red star and the words “Serve the People” printed in Chinese on the flap, perhaps Chinese Communist leader Mao’s most famous political slogan.
While the bags are marketed as trendy fashion accessories in some world capitals, the phrase has particular resonance in Peru, where the Maoist Shining Path insurgency brought Peru to edge of chaos in the 1980s and early 1990s with a campaign of massacres, assassinations and bombings.
Nearly 70,000 people were killed during the insurgency.
While it puts one in mind of the famous “How to Serve Man” episode of The Twilight Zone, one can hardly imagine that Diaz intended any sort of message at all by wearing the albatross bag. Certainly, during the Cultural Revolution one who had acted in the sorts of “decadent” dreck that Diaz had would either have been liquidated outright, or become part of the leadership’s harem (and then, probably, liquidated). The plain fact is that she is too ignorant to know how that might have been interpreted, given the historical context.
It’s certainly valid to criticize her for her manifest dopiness, but what did one expect? It reminds one of the intemperate frothing of self-identified moderates at the Paris Hilton jail saga, because she was purportedly a “moderate Republican.” I don’t actually expect that she’s informed enough to have coherent political views. There are certainly people and ideas worth getting exercised over, but I hardly think either of these ladies is one.
*Built by the ancient celebrities as a refuge from paparazzi.
I’d link to Mrs. R at Wuzzadem, but she uses language that I simply cannot countenance.
We have a voice now, and we’re not using it, and women have so much to lose. I mean, we could lose the right to our bodies. We could lo–if you think that rape should be legal, then don’t vote. But if you think that you have a right to your body, and you have a right to say what happens to you and fight off that danger of losing that, then you should vote, and those are the…
Hey, I notice there has been some discusion of Glenn Greenwald on this blog in the last few days. In that case, you’ll want to read Glenn’s new book, "A Tragic Legacy," available here.
Should be a page turner! Enjoy!
meritocracy is dead
Gee, and I could fisk an excerpt published at Salon for free. But I’m sure his sockpuppets are putting up 5 stars in the Amazon listing.
meritocracy is dead. Moral equivalency canard in 4…3…2…
So, is the ISBN assigned under fiction or self-help?
jeezus, don’t post a hyperlink unless you know what you’re doing. I hate these stretchy posts.
The tragedy of unreflective fashion: I’d prayed we’d never to suffer it again, but the slugs we hire to entertain us must be <i>so</i> stupid…
My apologies…it was the old italic force of habit.
Another demonstration of the stupidity of the Hollywood ne’er do wells and that of the stupidity of wearing clothing and bags that celebrate mass murderers.
So old Frog-Face demonstrated complete cultural cluelessness….quelle suprise!
Anybody that saw even five minutes of that waste of video bandwidth Trippin’ that she hosted knew long before now that Ms. Diaz tends to specialize in the superficial political statements that are the hallmark of the celebrity left.
I never understood this woman’s appeal. yeah, she looked good in The Mask, but she was also about 21 at the time, and age has not been kind. Combine the countenance of Kermit the Frog with the mottled skin of the Swamp Thing along with the intellectual heft of a chocolate eclair, and I can imagine the only way she landed Timberlake was through the power of the Force.
So old Frog-Face demonstrated complete cultural cluelessness….quelle suprise!
Anybody that saw even five minutes of that waste of video bandwidth Trippin’ that she hosted knew long before now that Ms. Diaz tends to specialize in the superficial political statements that are the hallmark of the celebrity left.
I never understood this woman’s appeal. yeah, she looked good in The Mask, but she was also about 21 at the time, and age has not been kind. Combine the countenance of Kermit the Frog with the mottled skin of the Swamp Thing along with the intellectual heft of a chocolate eclair, and I can imagine the only way she landed Timberlake was through the power of the Force.
So old Frog-Face demonstrated complete cultural cluelessness….quelle suprise!
Anybody that saw even five minutes of that waste of video bandwidth Trippin’ that she hosted knew long before now that Ms. Diaz tends to specialize in the superficial political statements that are the hallmark of the celebrity left.
I never understood this woman’s appeal. yeah, she looked good in The Mask, but she was also about 21 at the time, and age has not been kind. Combine the countenance of Kermit the Frog with the mottled skin of the Swamp Thing along with the intellectual heft of a chocolate eclair, and I can imagine the only way she landed Timberlake was through the power of the Force.
cause Timberlake is so discerning?
Diaz wore over her shoulder an olive green messenger bag emblazoned with a red star and the words “Serve the People†printed in Chinese
Seems like something musta got lost in translation. Evidently what Mao really meant was "Starve the People"
Wait, wait, is it "Starve the proletariat, feed the bourgeois " … or "Starve the bourgeois, feed the proletariat"? Ah, screw it, re-educate ’em all and let ’em tree bark.
Dan, This would be the same Ms. Diaz that said that a vote for George Bush in 2004 was vote to make rape legal?Ms. DIAZ: We have a voice now, and we’re not using it, and women have
so much to lose. I mean, we could lose the right to our bodies. We
could lo–if you think that rape should be legal, then don’t vote. But
if you think that you have a right to your body, and you have a right
to say what happens to you and fight off that danger of losing that,
then you should vote, and those are the…http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1231579/posts
Any word on whether or not she got to pinch a loaf out in the jungle? Because, if not, why even bother to make the trip?
She is a solid after 12:00AM piece of ass, if wasted in Atlanta baby.
To be fair, Cameron Diaz is the kind of stupid that would wear a “death to whitey” tee shirt to a Klan rally. She’s just criminally dumb, so you can’t really hold that against her.