Wine Can't be Fun
You see, this is what I'm constantly railing against. Wine can't be fun, it can't be "coarse" and it can't be funny. It has to to serious and stodgy and adhere to certain standards. Oh no, its okay for other industries (fast food, cars, music, etc.) to appeal to "base" instincts, but not wine. Oh no!
Oddly, the writer favors Bonny Doon for its more tasteful labels, yet ignores BD's "Bouteille Call" wine. Is it okay to be coarse in French?
Let's get wine down off its high horse, knock it off its pedestal, and crumble its ivory tower. This kind of elitist treatment only reinforces the preconceived notion that wine is stodgy and exclusively for special occasions.
Oddly, the writer favors Bonny Doon for its more tasteful labels, yet ignores BD's "Bouteille Call" wine. Is it okay to be coarse in French?
Let's get wine down off its high horse, knock it off its pedestal, and crumble its ivory tower. This kind of elitist treatment only reinforces the preconceived notion that wine is stodgy and exclusively for special occasions.
posted by Anonymous at 9:31 AM
7 Comments:
Yeah, I'm going to head right out for a bottle of Nigger wine, myself.
Point being, that the problem is not with labels being "funny", it's with their not being funny. There's nothing funny about acting as if the neutral genetic characteristic "fat" is somehow an automatic joke or intrinsic insult. There's nothing funny about using a wine lable as a excuse for pulling out a bunch of tired, predictable White Boy's ethnic hatred and ancient, wearying, boring, dirt stupid sexism. (Take another look at those lables -- they are solely, strictly appealing to Bigotted white "men" who never quite made it out of junior high. Doesn't that tell you something?
I confess, what's scariest of all is that you didn't get this on your own. Do you really belief the objects of these hate messages are someone supposed to put up with this crap? To just roll over and pretent there's something intrisically special about white boydom that means y'all get to piss on everyone else?
Apologies for the errors. A typo-free version of the previous is up at my site.
I think Abby needs a hug.
Or different medications.
Maybe both, or detox...
I agree that there are some things "not funny" and that there should be a balance between tastefullness and funny. Though the funniest thing here is someone named "Genteel" who sounds more like a femi-nazi than anything else...
But WOW. You're really trolling here aren't you? Anything to get some attention to your piddly bad-attitude rant blog with it's whopping 46 visitors so far...
Good luck Abby, I won't be looking you up again.
Ross
A wine called "royal bitch" is OK, but pointing out that the message is exactly the same as calling something "Nigger Wine" is incendiary. Even if it's a "noir"? Don't you understand wine terms?
Looks like by by "incendiary" you mean "accurate." And, it looks like I nailed it. You want to hate everybody, but can't take it when your intended victims fight back.
See you in the courts and the streets and anywhere else you try to resurrect 1950s-era white boy b.s.
So - is a female troll a 'trollop'?
I do want to be 'PC' and all that, or do I 'risque' being pun-ished for just asking??
E.M.F.
Huge,
I've always found that with trolls, its best to ignore them and they will go away. This person is trying (in a sad, pathetic way) to generate a little traffic for her own blog. Get a life. Keep up the good work, Huge. I appreciate the work you've put into this blog.
LMH
Oh, forgot to mention, I'm a hispanic female and I find all of those labels to be funny, despite what the muddleheaded Abby thinks. Don't take yourself so seriously, girl!
LMH
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