Comments on: “Poca-Hotness” (NSFW)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 20:47:22 +0000

I am a bit surprised no one has mentioned Q’orianka Kilcher. Her first name means “Golden Eagle” in Quechua, an Inca language still used in Peru. Her father is a Quecha-Huachpaeri from Peru and her mother is a Swiss national who grew up in Alaska. She played Pocahontas in “The New World,” a 2005 movie about the John Smith and Pocahontas legend that is definitely a huge improvement over the Walt Disney cartoon version and the 1953 movie version. There is an excellent article by Steve Chagollan on “The Myth of the Native Babe: Hollywood’s Pocahontas” in the New York Times, Nov. 27, 2005 (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/movies/27chago.html?_r=1&p…
It mentions Q’orianka Kilcher, who was 14 at the time of the filming of “The New World.” Steve Chagollan mentions John Mohawk, a director of indigenous studies at SUNY, Buffalo. He also mentions Sacagawea and Dona Marina. While there is plenty to criticize in the 2005 movie, directed by Terrence Malick, I did enjoy the scenes in England at the end of Pocahontas’ all too brief life. It is a kind of love story. She died of tuberculosis. I wonder what her life story would have been like if she had lived to a ripe old age as “Lady Rebecca” and had written an autobiography. The real John Smith may have been prone to tall tales, but he may also have been good at languages. The real John Rolfe may not have been all bad. Does anyone know what happened to their son? Some more recent films have treated First Nations people somewhat more sympathetically. But no one should expect movies to depict history wie es eigentlich gewesen [ist]!

By: “Buried my heart at the Holocausts” – Blackfire « Urocyon's Meanderings

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:40:27 +0000

[...] stalking one of those bitches, or even just want to put one in her place by calling her a “kike cunt”. (Then, if you like, you can argue that “kike cunt” really means “woman”, [...]

By: maus

maus — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:16:20 +0000

Virginal Tucker Max fan found.

By: maus

maus — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:10:24 +0000

Really though, that’s for a different demographic. The fetish scene, not Neo-Nazis.

By: “Poca-Hotness” (NSFW) « Raven’s Eye

“Poca-Hotness” (NSFW) « Raven’s Eye — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:03:27 +0000

[...] “Poca-Hotness” (NSFW) » Sociological Images. “Thanksgiving’s around the corner, and as we’ve shown in years past, what better way to get into the holiday spirit than with a bunch of super sexy (pseudo) squaws adding a little wood to your totem pole? Sure, not all of these lovely ladies are actual Native Americans, but if you ask us, dressing up in a hot-ass Native American outfit does the job just fine. All we have to do now is decide to which one we’d like to give a Wampum necklace.” [...]

By: Naveen

Naveen — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:43:54 +0000

This is terrible and you should be ashamed.

By: JenniferRuth

JenniferRuth — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:41:59 +0000

Ooooo – snap!

By: links for 2009-12-04 | Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:03:15 +0000

[...] WTF File: “Poca-Hotness” (NSFW)–Sociological Images Pocahontas was not a sexy Indian princess, she was kidnapped (and possibly turned into a sex slave) at the age of 17. After converting to Christianity while in captivity, she married an English man (John Rolfe, not Smith). She died at 22. No matter. Coed Magazine sees nothing but sexy potential in the story. Ryan sent in this slide show of a series of mostly naked women posing as Pocahontas to celebrate Thanksgiving. Thanks? (tags: via:robschmidt nativeamerican sexualstereotypes WTF) Share and Enjoy: [...]

By: TeriSaw

TeriSaw — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:23:16 +0000

Kevin’s comment, deconstructed:

“As a person claiming to be Native American, I presume to speak for all people of this ancestry. I also think using the rhetorical device of pretending to be a member of a minority group who isn’t offended by something horribly offensive gives my argument additional weight.”

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:08:47 +0000

GOD, that is fucking awful! Cultural appropriation, racism, and misogyny all in one package.

By: Urocyon

Urocyon — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:24:22 +0000

In Northern Iroquoian languages, “skwa” does refer to genitals, and has long been taken as an insult as used in English (and French, apparently). A similar Algonquian word particle does mean “woman”. There’s some dispute over which one made it into popular usage.

Barbara Mann made an excellent point in Iroquoian Women: “The eighteenth-century backwoodsmen who were overrunning Iroquoia and popularizing the particle ‘squaw’ among their fellow settlers were not interested in the political philosophy of office-holding among Narragansett women–who had been wiped out by the Puritans in 1675, in any case–but in something much more crudely functional.”

She also quotes Thomas McElwain: “Although ‘the linguists are technically right’ to claim similar Algonkin particles, ‘they should not ignore the fact that the word is an obscenity among the Iroquois’. Even if ‘there are two or more different native words which have collapsed into one English vulgarity,’ that skwa ‘IS an English vulgarity is another thing linguists should take into account…If White people have ever used the word “squaw-man” as a term of respect, I’d like to know about it.’

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:51:22 +0000

As a Native American, this does not offend me.

“adding a little wood to your totem pole?”

Come on now, that’s hilarious. Also, some of those women are actually Native, so good on them for getting work.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:11:21 +0000

Here’s an entry about the one to which I’m referring. :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_revisionism_(negationism)

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:50:42 +0000

Not necessarily. There are two types of historical revisionism. There’s the type that challenges the status quo by bringing to light more evidence, as well as the revisionism that creates ‘new’ history and runs with it to fit the status quo. EG: Pocahontas was a disney princess. I was speaking (sarcastically) of the latter. Sorry for the confusion!

By: yasmin

yasmin — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:11:22 +0000

erm, i think you are mis-using the term “revisionist history.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_revisionism