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November 11, 2006
Is true, no, that women have smaller brain???
Today's USA Today web edition has a funny article about the reactions of some of the real-life people appearing in the new Borat movie. They now want to explain to all of the world "he said he was Borat and I believed him ... but he was lying".
The cream of this crop is the piece by the feminist sculptor of "woman warriors" who finally walks out on Borat when he questions the cognitive abilities of women (see here).
Two things capture the essential handle:
1. Baron-Cohen does not like to involve people who know of the Ali G show. What a punk. It would be much more impressive if he used people who were supposed to be in on the joke and dis-oriented them anyway. Then he'd be entering Andy Kaufman territory. As it is, this comes across as an elaborate but, in all of the essential ways, terribly conventional con.
2. The feminist scupltor's main concern does not really appear to be Borat's tactics, but rather that in her case he is going after the wrong "-ism" in a fashion that makes uncomfortable someone who is, in her view, consitutionally entitled to feel like a victim. This attempt to frame the ruse as a hostile political gesture is silly and simply reveals even more about her than Borat was able to tease out. Only a feminist artist from the New York City-or perhaps San Francisco-would live in enough of a hyperbaric cultural and politcal chamber not to see how this would be viewed in the real world.
Posted by dag at November 11, 2006 9:40 AM