>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're such a cad, Frances.
-Alec
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