>I think it's QUITE telling that you left out Scary Spice, Doug. I think
>it's a sign of intellectual dishonesty. Quite clearly, it is in the person
>of Scary that the subversive messages regarding gender and race are found.
>By deliberately erasing her from the Spice Girls, you take their project,
>which is one of challenging traditional norms of gender, and particularly
>the power of female friendship, and you make it peripheral, if not
>completely invisible. In so doing, you recreate them in a way that is less
>threatening to white, male, heterosexual norms.
You've stripped me naked. Remind me about Scary and her brand of citationality.
Doug