Says Maria Conchita Alonso, explaining her support for Tim Donnelly, who's seeking the GOP nomination in the California gubernatorial race, which got her ousted from a San Francisco production of "The Vagina Monologues." She portrays her departure as non-involuntary:
"I said, ‘Well, you know the ... production doesn’t need to be hurt by me,... I told them, ‘Listen, it’s the best for everybody.’ ”
She also doesn't like being accused of doing a Latina stereotype in that Donnelly ad, especially the focus on the Chihuahua:
“I’m like, ‘Oh my God!... I rescued her from a shelter three years ago. I named her Tequila because we went to the shelter and I was kind of drunk. I was tequila-ed out. That’s the true story.”
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That’s the true story
People can't handle the truth.
They're not married? Somehow, when I watched the ad I thought the two were married. The fact they're NOT married makes me feel a little better about the negative reaction to her appearance in the ad. At least they're not going after someone for supporting her husband's candidacy.
I'd like to think Althouse has been highlighting Alonso's story because of the obvious hypocrisies it exposes on the left. A woman is being attacked for espousing views that she's not supposed to have. The clear subtext is that certain people can only have certain preordained views, because everyone supposedly votes to advance their narrow interests.
I suspect, however, Althouse highlights Alonso's story because she thinks Alonso is an attention whore and that the commercial was somehow indecent or insulting to Latinos.
Perhaps we should let "Latinos" decide what is or is not insulting to "Latinos"?
And no one outside of San Francisco would have heard of either Mr. Donelly or Maria Alonso if the producers of the show had had the good sense no to make an issue of Alonso's gig on this commercial.
People who think the ad was insulting to Latinos have a deeper problem with bias than they imagine.
Can't Latinos be themselves without someone feeling that they are somehow doing something shameful ? Perhaps the problem is not there is a stereotype but that people think the stereotype is bad. If the stereotype is actually not far from the reality then we have real problems.
Honi soit qui may y pense
Critics said she was stereotyping Latinos by holding a Chihuahua whose name is Tequila.
Huh???
I wonder if they were also deeply offended by the Beverly Hills Chihuahua movies...
As if Alonso wasn't chosen by the Vagina producers in the first place to be their token Latina.
I get the feeling there was very little money, if any at all, in the Vagina gig, so Alonso naturally attaches less importance to the "injustice" of her dismissal than your average ideological partisan.
She probably couldn't stand the assholes to begin with.
She's real and spectacular!
The authority of the Left is markedly different from the morality of the Right. Communism is a system designed to consolidate control and capital with a minority. It is appealing to greedy bastards, vulnerable, and incompetent individuals.
That said, the modern Left has departed from their traditional policies. While past regimes slaughtered or murdered (e.g. misaligned development) their way to power, the modern Left has exploited democratic leverage, and resorted to preventing the birth of unfavorable human lives. They have used lethal injection and dismemberment as tools in a population control protocol. Presumably to make the numbers work or at least appear to be credible.
Anyway, liberty is only suitable and possible for men and women capable of self-moderating, responsible (i.e. moral) behavior. For everyone else, there is communism or some other authoritarian monopoly to promise them hope and dream fulfillment.
"In 2011, she got into a heated exchange with Sean Penn at the baggage claim at Los Angeles International Airport over his support of the Socialist leader. Penn called her a pig; she called him a communist."
Talk about returning good for evil. Undoubtedly Sean Penn thought she was flattering him.
Serious comment: The left treats her that way because in their mind, her stance isn't intellectual disagreement. It's heresy. Such is the left's self-aggrandizement on display.
Less serious comment: "“I’m like, ‘Oh my God!... I rescued her from a shelter three years ago. I named her Tequila because we went to the shelter and I was kind of drunk. I was tequila-ed out. That’s the true story."" Well... I guess that explains my friend's cat named "Meth"... :-S
Minorities sure are fragile, aren't they? Women too. Always getting their feelings hurt over the slightest statement. They need to be protected from such evidently.
Trey
Alonso mentions threats "to burn down the theater" as part of the reason she left the production.
Does the threat of force mean that we are talking "non-involuntary non-involuntary," or just "non-involuntary?"
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/01/20/maria-conchita-alonso-talks-monologues-controversy-on-kelly-file/
Ok, now I love her.
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