Comments | redmenace: Ultragrrrl in Gothamist

redmenace

Ultragrrrl in Gothamist

Jul 13, 2005 20:38

In her recent Gothamist Interview, Sarah "Ultragrrrl" Lewitinn drops this amazing line:

You know how people with Down syndrome are really nice and happy all the time because their brains aren't developed enough to have negative emotion? I'm sort of like that, except my brain is a little more formed. Only a little.Okay, this is not cool. By all ( Read more... )

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misprid July 14 2005, 00:55:03 UTC

how shity.

redmenace July 14 2005, 00:56:07 UTC

Careful, she's a tastemaker! She made The Killers big, you know.

warrenjabali July 14 2005, 00:58:03 UTC

She made The Killers big, you know.

so clearly she has at least some experience w/ the developmentally challenged...:)

misprid July 14 2005, 01:01:28 UTC

do you think yuppies know how to suck it well?

emilydrewski July 14 2005, 01:23:15 UTC

I am glad that someone else has started defending the "retards."

Seriously.

redmenace July 14 2005, 01:39:40 UTC

I'm still not 100% sure you're not funning me, but seriously -- what an absolutely lame and stupid thing to say. I have many things to say, but I['ll just leave it at that.

emilydrewski July 14 2005, 01:48:54 UTC

I'm not funning you.

For a long time, I've felt like the only person who even slightly winced when someone uses the adjective "retarded."

I'm glad you didn't let it slide.

redmenace July 14 2005, 01:51:02 UTC

Well, we are children of the early 90s. We had irony, but not post-ironic detachment.

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Re: maybe she should be friends with crispin glover redmenace July 14 2005, 02:31:31 UTC

I bet she loves that Sigur Ros video.

chrisomatic July 14 2005, 03:18:15 UTC

Someone who still uses "grrrl" in her name shouldn't be allowed to say anything in publicity. Especially something that blatantly offensive.

the_deb July 14 2005, 09:34:03 UTC

redmenace July 14 2005, 12:56:55 UTC

Secretly, I have an axe to grind with this person. I've never met her, and from what I've been told on a face to face level she's very personable, but as a symbolic figure she sort of hits on everything I kind of hate about NYC, music and pop culture.

I also don't mind people saying dummb shit and apologizing -- sometimes it's all you can do, right? But I will say that the few people who have called her on it so far have been referred to phantom medical studies she's "heard about" and their concerns with her weird, creepy essentialism have been brushed aside.