The only good thing about the fact that the Russian grrl-punk band Pussy Riot has been sentenced to two years in prison for criticizing Tsar Putin is the fact that upright uptight news commentators world-wide have been saying the word “pussy” several times a week for the past few weeks. You can almost see their sphincters clinch every time they say the word. Heh.
- Badtux the Easily Amused Penguin
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That’s good humor penguin.
I’m easily amused, too. Specially at the expense of such knicker-knotters.
I want to hear from Tux’s female fanny club (“fanny” is Brit-Aus slang for the first word in the band’s name, natch) think it did to female newsreaders who uttered the pornbidden word. I can guess Rachel Maddow’s reaction!
Female fan here. Sounds hilarious. Wish I had tv so I could have watched.
RasPutin.
One more thing — has anyone watched the Pussy Riot video with the footage they did inside the church? It’s AWFUL! Less than two minutes long, and sucky almost all the way through. Lots of abrupt tempo changes, stilted lyrics (the linkified version there comes with English subtitles if you click the captions box), erratic camera work that could have used a lot of editing, and even the punk parts of the song were amateurish. It makes me appreciate even more what a band like the Ramones could do with a mindless 2-minute punk screech. All this worldwide attention over a video that would have gotten maybe 363 views on YouTube if not for the controversy. I wanted to like this group, would have bought a recording to support them if they had any product out on plastic, but they’re at about the high school basement band level.
Well, in fairness, they weren’t exactly in a studio setup and had cops coming for them. The Ramones were great at pretending to be punks, but never actually did any guerrilla punk’ing (if that’s a term). Still, you’re right — this amateur hour production is a crazy thing to send three young women to jail for. Even here in Soviet America, they’d get a misdemeanor trespassing citation and, at worst, community service for a few weeks of picking up trash by the roadside while wearing orange jumpsuits. Humiliating, but hardly the same as Tsar Putin’s punishment for the same basic crime.
Also there’s this -
http://registan.net/index.php/2012/08/17/when-putin-becomes-religion/
“the media frenzy over Pussy Riot’s possible three years in prison is obscuring the much harsher sentences facing their not-famous, not-female co-protesters”