Come, Armageddon, Come

Is Murkan culture is sustainable? It perpetuates the lone (male) hero myth, normalizes adolescent obsessions, and at least representationally subjugates all who do not fit in prior categories. Can it possibly bear out in our collective experience that the only honorable brave intelligent dedicated folks among us are lone white guys? It's so tired. I'm done.

"In a new subplot added by the filmmakers, the mayor of Whoville has 96 daughters. He has one son. Guess who gets all his attention? Guess who saves the day? Go ahead, think about it, I'll wait ... Boys get to save the world, and girls get to stand there and say, I knew you could do it. How did they know he could do it? Maybe because they watched every other movie ever made?"

--Peter Sagal, father of three daughters and host of National Public Radio’s “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me,” in a commentary on NPR about the new big-screen adaptation of “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!”

Peter Sagal is my new BFF of all time.

[via Broadsheet]

Comments

[Congogirl]

LOVED this bit by Peter Sagal. Thanks for posting. Also, I suspect that I can't post an image here but I took this photo for you a long time ago after reading about Murkans.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/114/253572394_29639ff4ab.jpg

[ae]

H, I loved this too! How the heck are you? Send me a note, let me know where you are/what you're up to. arsepoetica[at]gmail or my UNC address. Hope all's well, and thx for the pic! Love it. =D