Jake at Pure Pedantry has been on a blog tear posting some seriously funny shit. But this post on Linsday Hohan makes me wonder what the real identity of the guy who blogs at The Superficial is.
A real smokin' readhead below the fold....
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And what, I ask you, is so wrong about blogging about hot women and their relationship to genetics?
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who said anything about wrongness? glass houses & all :)
but don't you worry about the perpetuation of heteronormative discourse in a society where we are attempting to value individuals for their character rather than their physical features? this individual, for example, would have illustrated the problems with loss of functionality on the MC1R locus that is endemic to redheads without the distractions of objectification, and, reinforcement of capitalist & patriarchical values of "attractiveness" promoted simply to perpetuate arbitrary power relations. as a white male (generalizing from your photograph) don't you think you in particular can set a progressive example of sensitivity toward those who do not benefit from either your gender or skin color privilege? (speaking as an operational heterosexual non-"native" born male of color who does not benefit from white skin privilege and is excluded from the dominant patriarchal caste by virtue of my origin) one can argue that as highly depigmented individuals who often exhibit brown "freckles" redheads are themselves a demonized minority, a group "of color," so to speak, around whom negative folk mythologies have cohered (how many reheads have had to deal with the slur "firecrotch" during their adolescence?). in other words, they are the internal Other. haven't you read the book how redheads became Colored?