All in the best possible taste!

[susie_flo]

Good aftenoon fiends, I hope you are having pleasing Sundays.

I'm happy to report that Silence! The Musical is very funny and well worth a visit, should it happen to tour round your way. G and I saw it last night in a tiny fringe venue that only held about 50 people but was fully sold out. The actress playing Clarice did an excellent job of mimicking Jodie Foster... (she jogged on stage in a grey tracksuit and saluted a senior officer with the words "Mah name is Clareesh Shtarling Shurrr".) The man playing Lecter also did a fine job. The whole thing was in gleefully bad taste, with plenty of jazz hands at inappropriate lyrics ("it puts the fucking lotion in the fucking basket!") On the way up the stairs to the theatre there were mock posters for other musicals, including Schindler!, Dawn! (of the dead) and Sophie! (clarified by a pic of Meryl streep in a headscarf in case there was any doubt).

Anyway moving on, I have a question for you, dear fiends. Would you say that you are ever guilty of positive prejudice? By this, I mean a tendency to assume that certain groups of people are all lovely and good, without having any real grounds to base it on?

I have noted recently that I tend to assume Canadians will be friendly, intelligent and morally sound people. I'm not sure where I got this idea from (...and obviously I am excluding the ones who club baby seals). Similarly, I tend to assume that Scandinavians will be enlightened people with balanced views and a gentle sense of humour. Why do I think this? (I don't really know any Scandinavians... and according to Stieg Larsson quite a few of them seem to be misogynistic psychopaths).

Hmmm. It is most perplexing. Am I alone with these strange ill-informed fangirl beliefs, or do you lot suffer from similar delusions?

Well I suppose I'd better get on and see whether I can cleanse my house of evil...(lots of funny business going on these days.)
 

Comments

[rosamicula.livejournal.com]

I want to write a long thoughtful reply to this, but need to lie on the sofa and eat beef olives and do my marking,

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Never mind... (maybe I could use my prejudice to imagine what you would have said) :-)

[tvted.livejournal.com]

I am confident your view of Canadians is completely accurate.. I am living proof.
Stig Larsson...why did he have to go and have a heart attack and die! I have had nothing to read since I finished the last one

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I reckon you two should friend each other... (I'm sure TV_Ted would find your LJ meanderings amusing)

[steer.livejournal.com]

For some reason I have a similar opinion that your nordic types should be terrifically enlightened -- like those benevolent alien races. I think it's from their cool high-tax social welfare economic policies that I get this view.

Then I also think that Finnish people will be hard drinking lunatics -- but I've never met one who challenged this preconception.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I think their liberal attitudes to sex also help give the impression of general enlightnment. Same goes for the Dutch, who (in my experience) might just be the nicest people evah.

[steer.livejournal.com]

On an entirely unrelated note: Geek barbie:

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[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Is that supposed to be me?

[steer.livejournal.com]

Would you like it to be?

I'm not sure if it's the kind of toy that you really should have had as a child.... still, geek barbie...