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Pandagon: The Straw That Stirs The Blogosphere, With StupidityJohn Edwards' former official blogmistress. She finds the angles -- the stupid, kneejerk, moronic angles -- that transform otherwise unbloggable stories into comedy gold. Dave From Texas gamely tried to make the Ponytail Bandit story interesting. Semi-cute chick, robbing banks. Eh. So-so story. He did what he could. What he was missing was the willingness to stamp any fairly-trivial story with the Metanarrative Cookie-Cutter. Pandagon soars where all but the stupidest angels fear to tread. A kinda dumb throw-away story about a college-aged pony-tailed small-potatoes bank-robber becomes, in Marcotte's co-blogger "Auguste's" Feminism says: Women can handle crime sprees all by themselves, thank you When will The Oppressive Patriarchy finally acknowlege that women are as capable of shit-for-brains petty criminality as men are?!?! In another story I didn't really care about, Fox and CBS rejected an ad for Trojans condoms. Allah gave a, dare I say, nuanced analysis of the ad and the decision to reject it, which utterly lacked the most important part of a blog post: kneejerk unhinged full-on ballsucking hackitude. But Marcotte's brave enough to go for the jugular of hackdom: ...the issue with this ad is that Fox and CBS rejected the ad and not because it peddles in the same stereotypes that their programming uses. No, they took issue with advertising condoms as being used for what they are used for. Huh! Who knew that all the other condom ads were "advertised as benefiting men" alone, whereas this one ad showed the condom as actually benefiting women! (Despite, you know, the main thrust of the ad is "Pick up a pack of condoms and that chick just might give up the nookie after all" -- which, you know, seems to me to be advertising condoms as "benefiting men.") The journalists who write about most bloggers being childish, callow, shallow, navel-gazing barely-educated foaming-at-the-mouths lunatic sub-amatuers do, I concede, have something of a point. Dave, Allah: You see where you guys went wrong now? You see the right way to frame small-potatoes stories now? Do you now understand that every story, no matter how trivial or how resistant to a bumper-sticker political overlay, can -- nay, must -- be forced into a dogma-reinforcing metanarrative? Go and do likewise, gentlemen. I'd wish you luck but you wouldn't know what to do with it.
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