Germanicus
12-13-2013, 03:56 PM
I saw an interesting Fox Extra a heap of times because they seem to repeat the Fox Extra segments like mad. Anyway. This Fox Extra was about an article in magazine Garden and Gun titled Southern Women. The artivle is about how awesome Southern women are.
The Fox Extra segment has a woman from the South and a woman from the North and they talk about the differences between the two types of women. It is all good and unPC and they stereotype the hell out of women in general maybe. So I thought it was kind of good because stereotypes actually exist for a reason and there does seem to be inherent charcteristics that are shared between groups of people. I do not think that it is racist, sexist, misogyinist or homophobic to talk about stuff like that really.
This is the article.
Southern women are different. That is a fact. It is not posturing, or hyperbole, or marketing. (See: all those song lyrics about California girls and their undeniable cuteness.) Southern women, unlike women from Boston or Des Moines or Albuquerque, are leashed to history. For better or worse, we are forever entangled in and infused by a miasma of mercy and cruelty, order and chaos, cornpone and cornball, a potent mix that leaves us wise, morbid, good-humored, God-fearing, outspoken and immutable. Like the Irish, with better teeth.
To be born a Southern woman is to be made aware of your distinctiveness. And with it, the rules. The expectations. These vary some, but all follow the same basic template, which is, fundamentally, no matter what the circumstance, Southern women make the effort. Which is why even the girls in the trailer parks paint their nails. And why overstressed working moms still bake three dozen homemade cookies for the school fund-raiser. And why you will never see Reese Witherspoon wearing sweatpants. Or Oprah take a nap.
For my mother, being Southern means handwritten thank-you notes, using a rhino horn’s worth of salt in every recipe, and spending a minimum of twenty minutes a day in front of her makeup mirror so she can examine her beauty in “office,” “outdoor,” and “evening” illumination. It also means never leaving the house with wet hair. Not even in the case of fire. Because wet hair is low-rent. It shows you don’t care, and not caring is not something Southern women do, at least when it comes to our hair.
This is less about vanity than self-respect, a crucial distinction often lost on non-Southerners. When a Southern woman fusses over her appearance, it does not reflect insecurity, narcissism, or some arrested form of antifeminism that holds back the sisterhood. Southern women are postfeminism. The whole issue is a nonstarter, seeing as Southern women are smart enough to recognize what works—Spanx, Aqua Net—and wise to the allocation of effort. Why pretend the world is something it isn’t? Better to focus on what you can control (drying your hair) and make the best of what you have. Side note: Southern women do not capitalize on their looks to snag men, though that often results. The reason we Southern women take care of ourselves is because, simply, Southern women are caretakers.
http://gardenandgun.com/article/southern-women
Who wouldnt enjoy some good Southern hospitality I guess? (:
Post feminists? That is fucking awesome.
And wet hair is kinda low rent right? I mean even those girls in the trailor parks paint their nails.
I like this persons morality. She is very honest about how she feels. Postfeminist. (:
So are the Postfeminists correct? Are there different types and classes of women? Like in general?
The big thing to think about is the whole capitalizing on looks. The article is saying that Southern women do not make themselves look hot for men because they do not care what men think of them. They do it for themselves. Because Southern women are worth it. (: And it is saying that the pathetic and pitiful Nothern women are actually trying to look all hot and stuff just so that a man might look at them twice. Is this fair? (: The writer of the article, Allison Glock does not have slave morality is for sure.
The clip of the Fox Extra item is in this link- Are Southern Women Superior?
http://laurieabkemeier.tumblr.com/post/54386891934/are-southern-women-superior-ronda-rich-tells-it
So which kinds of women are the best? The Southern women? Northern women? Feminsts? Postfeminsts?
Do the trailor park women of the North really stack up to the trailor park women of the South? What, with their painted nails and dried hair and all?
What kinds of women are superior do you think? (:
4922
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJKze_ukrXY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJLIiF15wjQ
Girl power!
The Fox Extra segment has a woman from the South and a woman from the North and they talk about the differences between the two types of women. It is all good and unPC and they stereotype the hell out of women in general maybe. So I thought it was kind of good because stereotypes actually exist for a reason and there does seem to be inherent charcteristics that are shared between groups of people. I do not think that it is racist, sexist, misogyinist or homophobic to talk about stuff like that really.
This is the article.
Southern women are different. That is a fact. It is not posturing, or hyperbole, or marketing. (See: all those song lyrics about California girls and their undeniable cuteness.) Southern women, unlike women from Boston or Des Moines or Albuquerque, are leashed to history. For better or worse, we are forever entangled in and infused by a miasma of mercy and cruelty, order and chaos, cornpone and cornball, a potent mix that leaves us wise, morbid, good-humored, God-fearing, outspoken and immutable. Like the Irish, with better teeth.
To be born a Southern woman is to be made aware of your distinctiveness. And with it, the rules. The expectations. These vary some, but all follow the same basic template, which is, fundamentally, no matter what the circumstance, Southern women make the effort. Which is why even the girls in the trailer parks paint their nails. And why overstressed working moms still bake three dozen homemade cookies for the school fund-raiser. And why you will never see Reese Witherspoon wearing sweatpants. Or Oprah take a nap.
For my mother, being Southern means handwritten thank-you notes, using a rhino horn’s worth of salt in every recipe, and spending a minimum of twenty minutes a day in front of her makeup mirror so she can examine her beauty in “office,” “outdoor,” and “evening” illumination. It also means never leaving the house with wet hair. Not even in the case of fire. Because wet hair is low-rent. It shows you don’t care, and not caring is not something Southern women do, at least when it comes to our hair.
This is less about vanity than self-respect, a crucial distinction often lost on non-Southerners. When a Southern woman fusses over her appearance, it does not reflect insecurity, narcissism, or some arrested form of antifeminism that holds back the sisterhood. Southern women are postfeminism. The whole issue is a nonstarter, seeing as Southern women are smart enough to recognize what works—Spanx, Aqua Net—and wise to the allocation of effort. Why pretend the world is something it isn’t? Better to focus on what you can control (drying your hair) and make the best of what you have. Side note: Southern women do not capitalize on their looks to snag men, though that often results. The reason we Southern women take care of ourselves is because, simply, Southern women are caretakers.
http://gardenandgun.com/article/southern-women
Who wouldnt enjoy some good Southern hospitality I guess? (:
Post feminists? That is fucking awesome.
And wet hair is kinda low rent right? I mean even those girls in the trailor parks paint their nails.
I like this persons morality. She is very honest about how she feels. Postfeminist. (:
So are the Postfeminists correct? Are there different types and classes of women? Like in general?
The big thing to think about is the whole capitalizing on looks. The article is saying that Southern women do not make themselves look hot for men because they do not care what men think of them. They do it for themselves. Because Southern women are worth it. (: And it is saying that the pathetic and pitiful Nothern women are actually trying to look all hot and stuff just so that a man might look at them twice. Is this fair? (: The writer of the article, Allison Glock does not have slave morality is for sure.
The clip of the Fox Extra item is in this link- Are Southern Women Superior?
http://laurieabkemeier.tumblr.com/post/54386891934/are-southern-women-superior-ronda-rich-tells-it
So which kinds of women are the best? The Southern women? Northern women? Feminsts? Postfeminsts?
Do the trailor park women of the North really stack up to the trailor park women of the South? What, with their painted nails and dried hair and all?
What kinds of women are superior do you think? (:
4922
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJKze_ukrXY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJLIiF15wjQ
Girl power!