meganallison: emptyage: Gold Medalist Shawn Johnson’s peace earrings are, I think, a sure sign of thechanging times. There would have been all kinds of noise about this in2004. Anyway, the point of this reblog was that I hope that her peace earrings and her peace sign flashes really indicate some kind of sea-change on the part of the American public; that it’s a signal that even in the Breadbasket and the Bible Belt the “regular” people are sick enough of the hypocrisy of conservatism, the abuses of justice, et. al, that they’re tolerating this overt televised statement-making. But I dunno. I guess I’m not convinced it’s that frought with meaning. (snipped) Maybe I’m overanalyzing this and maybe because I’ve lived in the Haight Ashbury most of my adult life I have a knee-jerk “you don’t know what you’re talking about” reaction to anyone attempting to fly the hippie flag, but I’m inclined to see this whole peace sign thing as superficial. Or if a statement, a partly unwitting one. Whether or not she was making a willful statement (And I tend to think she had to be making one. What, she’s not going to think about what she’s wearing on a massive  primetime, nationalyl televised interview?) what I find interesting is that these earrings passed without comment from the Fox News crowd conserva-blogs. Whether or not she meant it as a political or fashion statement, I think four years ago there would have been a lot of blowback.

meganallison:

emptyage:

Gold Medalist Shawn Johnson’s peace earrings are, I think, a sure sign of the
changing times. There would have been all kinds of noise about this in
2004.

Anyway, the point of this reblog was that I hope that her peace earrings and her peace sign flashes really indicate some kind of sea-change on the part of the American public; that it’s a signal that even in the Breadbasket and the Bible Belt the “regular” people are sick enough of the hypocrisy of conservatism, the abuses of justice, et. al, that they’re tolerating this overt televised statement-making. But I dunno. I guess I’m not convinced it’s that frought with meaning.

(snipped)

Maybe I’m overanalyzing this and maybe because I’ve lived in the Haight Ashbury most of my adult life I have a knee-jerk “you don’t know what you’re talking about” reaction to anyone attempting to fly the hippie flag, but I’m inclined to see this whole peace sign thing as superficial. Or if a statement, a partly unwitting one.

Whether or not she was making a willful statement (And I tend to think she had to be making one. What, she’s not going to think about what she’s wearing on a massive  primetime, nationalyl televised interview?) what I find interesting is that these earrings passed without comment from the Fox News crowd conserva-blogs. Whether or not she meant it as a political or fashion statement, I think four years ago there would have been a lot of blowback.

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