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Sen. Walter Sobchak

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21. This reminds me of this "essay"

Reply to shawn703 (Original post)

Wed May 2, 2012, 05:35 PM

May 2012

http://hotchickswithdouchebags.com/2009/04/critical-essay-orangeness-as-signifier/

In the 17th-19th Centuries, Western culture viewed tanned or “dark” skin along two axes of distinction. Firstly, a tan was a sign of lower class status, because it marked you as working in the fields and were therefore a day laborer. Alternately, it was a form of marking the body as Africanized, an impure non-white bloodline. With alabaster whiteness marked as a sign of aristocracy, any deviation reconfigured one’s body as “ethnic,” moving one towards the base prism of the “lower” classes; Latino, black, Italian or Asian.

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New Jersey mom accused of taking daughter, 5, in tanning salon booth; child suffered burns [View all] shawn703 May 2012 OP

Toddlers and Tiaras proud2BlibKansan May 2012 #1

"The 44-year-old mother, who is very tan" shawn703 May 2012 #2

Yow deutsey May 2012 #4

tanned like leather justabob May 2012 #10

I will never understand Dokkie May 2012 #3

it even comes in a tasteful orange hue, should you run for congress. ChairmanAgnostic May 2012 #5

44-year old mom will have tough, ugly, leather like skin in 10 years. WI_DEM May 2012 #6

EEK! this picture cannot be real, can it? Raine1967 May 2012 #7

Is her teeth tan? trumad May 2012 #8

This is just nasty. Raine1967 May 2012 #17

Its more extreme than that.. AsahinaKimi May 2012 #15

OMG. Raine1967 May 2012 #16

Mother of Dog! hifiguy May 2012 #23

you have to have a good base burn to achieve that jersey shore orange hue frylock May 2012 #9

Hmmmmm gratuitous May 2012 #11

I was almost afraid that this was going to be my sister... a la izquierda May 2012 #12

not meaning to excuse this incident, but I have a question justabob May 2012 #13

I wouldn't find that out of the question shawn703 May 2012 #14

That woman looked like a melanoma with feet. Stinky The Clown May 2012 #18

the woman is lying JCMach1 May 2012 #19

Surprisingly, she does not have skin cancer. RebelOne May 2012 #20

Doesn't mean she'll never get it. vankuria May 2012 #22

This reminds me of this "essay" Sen. Walter Sobchak May 2012 #21