Comments on: Is the key to reducing your carbon footprint in your ass?

By: Bitter Scribe

Bitter Scribe — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:35:02 +0000

OK, now I’ve read it, and it comes off to me as nothing more than a rather flat joke.

It’s far from the most offensive thing Ehrenreich has ever written. I’m thinking of her apologias for Lorena Bobbitt and Susan Smith. I generally admire the woman, but she can be annoyingly self-righteous sometimes.

By: Brenda

Brenda — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:42:09 +0000

Here is an alternate link since The Nation one isn't working. (I assume that's the same article!)

By: TiaRachel

TiaRachel — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:41:19 +0000

That link doesn't seem to be linking. Try this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barbara-ehrenreich

By: TiaRachel

TiaRachel — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:38:14 +0000

It’s also up at her Huffington Post blog.

She’ll be on Colbert tonight, if anyone’s interested.

By: Bitter Scribe

Bitter Scribe — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:56:40 +0000

Now you’ve got me all curious, and the link is broken.

By: Sniper

Sniper — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:15:35 +0000

Her blog is rather full of satire and sarcasm. She was completely not at all being serious.

I get that. It’s still a shitty joke.

By: exholt

exholt — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:43:28 +0000

fat people being lazy “scavengers” whose bodies are symbolize a greedy, wasteful society.

A popular propaganda meme used by Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan strait to berate fat people from what I’ve heard from those in my parents generation who lived in those areas from the 1940′s-1970s.

By: Mnemosyne

Mnemosyne — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:21:37 +0000

She is serious about fat people being lazy “scavengers” whose bodies are symbolize a greedy, wasteful society.

That only makes sense if you think Swift’s point was that Irish people had too many kids and “A Modest Proposal” was actually a call for them to start practicing birth control instead of what it actually was, an excoriation of the British government.

By: Jill

Jill — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:16:58 +0000

hrenreich is fully being satirical (I like the reference to “A Modest Proposal.” Props). Her blog is rather full of satire and sarcasm. She was completely not at all being serious.

I think everyone realizes that, right?

By: Ivy

Ivy — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:14:02 +0000

Ehrenreich is fully being satirical (I like the reference to “A Modest Proposal.” Props). Her blog is rather full of satire and sarcasm. She was completely not at all being serious.