Bob Knight, director of CWA's Culture and Family Institute, said Barbie manufacturer Mattel was being influenced by the "transgender movement."Yes, that Barbie. America's bimbo, Barbie. (And that CWA, same one that got into another fuss with Mattel recently over some kind of doll called "American Girl" and some kind of group called "Girls Inc." which supports - oh spare us - "sex education.")
The CWA that Bob Knight (this Bob Knight, as opposed to that Bob Knight) is a director of has the full, spelled-out name "Concerned Women for America," a little fact I will take no notice of.
But cute is in the news today (or at least in the New York Times).
The human cuteness detector is set at such a low bar, researchers said, that it sweeps in and deems cute practically anything remotely resembling a human baby or a part thereof, and so ends up including the young of virtually every mammalian species, fuzzy-headed birds like Japanese cranes, woolly bear caterpillars, a bobbing balloon, a big round rock stacked on a smaller rock, a colon, a hyphen and a close parenthesis typed in succession.I just hope they didn't pay those researchers too much money for telling them something any self-respecting curmudgeon blogger could have told them for free. These guys have been studying all sorts of cute (the researchers, I mean) and have concluded the new King Kong is cute because he has a squashed, baby-doll face. (What kind of dolls were they playing with, I wonder.)
And that new baby panda at the Smithsonian. Cute, cute, cute, they say. In two hours the zoo sold 13,000 tickets to view it - and they were just for time-limited looks.
A guard's sonorous voice rises above the burble. "OK, folks, five oohs and aahs per person, then it's time to let someone else step up front."Now ain't that cute?
:-)
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