Comments on: No, Rachael, No!

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:19:04 +0000

Um, no.

http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/05/24/if-you-wear-a-black-white-scarf-the-terrorists-win/#comments

By: baz

baz — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:13:56 +0000

To paraphrase Freud, sometimes a scarf is just a scarf.

My 1-year-old son wears one given to him by a very good friend (Egyptian, and one of the sweetest guys I’ve ever met — he loves my son). Is he making some statement? Am I?

God forbid we should humanize people from other cultures.

By: Jason Holbrook

Jason Holbrook — Sun, 25 May 2008 23:35:24 +0000

I think it is just a scarf. look by the adams apple, there is a break in the pattern. All the Kaffiyehs I have seen are solid pattern. If you look just above the cup there is plainly a change in the pattern, like a border and a central pattern.

By: WayneB

WayneB — Sun, 25 May 2008 04:56:36 +0000

Ok, assuming that this is an ad, you have to consider the likelihood that the wardrobe is picked out by the ad agency, and that she did not know what the meaning of it was. It’s possible that even DD didn’t know what it was, and that it was all on the ad agency.

On the other hand, in my part of the country, you can see little old ladies wearing scarves very similar to that, and have for as long as anyone can remember – many of them are handmade, by European immigrants who came here long before Israel and Palestine existed on modern maps.

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By: Jarrod

Jarrod — Sat, 24 May 2008 00:14:59 +0000

It just looks like a regular ol’ run of the mill scarf to me. It matches her shirt.

Besides, you know us white people do love a good scarf:
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/97-scarves/

By: CaptDMO

CaptDMO — Fri, 23 May 2008 23:46:09 +0000

[quote]Is Ray’s blunder worth boycotting DD over?[/quote]

Is Ray’s blunder worth boycotting DD over?

(now I know which format works on the new site)
No. Ray’s action is NOT a blunder, it’s a statement. If she is aware, or not, is moot.
Normally I’d say let DD slide, but she’s POSING with a DD product-logo prominently displayed (in the traditional product placement mode).

Here’s a tip. Grind your own beans, brew your own coffee, fill a thermos, enjoy a SUPERIOR beverage at a fraction of the cost and NO waiting in line enduring other caffeine addicts morning coffee farts. In doing so with metal mesh coffee filters there’s also a 95% reduction in sugar packets, plastic stirrers and lids, foam/paper cups, and gasoline used to “go out of ones way and stop” especially idoling while in a drive through. Ask any old hippie, or even reference Erma Bombeck and Hints from Heloise archives for how to
utilize spent coffee grounds.

Krispy Kreams are available frozen, besides, a piece of whole wheat toast with too much (real) butter and globs of preserves (not jelly)
can be FAR superior as “smug” dietary eeeevil!

Rachael Ray may be “cute and spunky”, too much um..caffeine I suspect. Alas, I fear she’s jumped the shark with this fashion ([i]fashion[/i]?) statement!