Rosanne Barre: American Culture Is Pimp Culture

[DudeAsInCool]

I hate socialization. I'm anti-socialization, and it's all horrible. The Paris Hilton-ization of our daughters is really grotesque and disgusting — and so's the bullying. It's just pimp culture. All of American culture is pimp culture.

Do you ever think about leaving America then, like Nina Simone did?

Yeah. I do, but then I think I'd want to go someplace safe. But there's nowhere safe. The whole world is America. You've gotta just stay and fight. My son's 11, and he said last week, "Where can I go where I won't be drafted?" What's more upsetting, if they don't bring the draft back, it'll be working-class and poor and drug-addicted people just out of prison. It has to be all kids. I'm pro-draft. Rich people have to pay too. That's democracy.

You're giving plenty of money away.

Yeah, I am, and I'm proud of it. I hesitate to say, I've given more money away than any other person in my position. When you ask people in Hollywood to give you money, they say, "I'll show up for that benefit." All these stars are so corrupt and sickening. You think showing up for a picture is doing something? … They have these huge benefit luncheons where they get six billionaires, and they raise $200,000. It's vile. I was happy to have it and happy to give it, and I still am. I don't want to go to hell.

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[slum_goddess]

good on her. never really thought much about her, but i dig her views here.

wait, Nina Simone left the States? Larry Flynt said he'd leave if the preznit stayed in DC (said it right before the last fucked election 04), but i never heard anything more about that. i know Johnny Depp just bought a house in the next town from mine (Bath Spa).

[Redneck4sure]

good on her. never really thought much about her, but i dig her views here.

wait, Nina Simone left the States? Larry Flynt said he'd leave if the preznit stayed in DC (said it right before the last fucked election 04), but i never heard anything more about that. i know Johnny Depp just bought a house in the next town from mine (Bath Spa).

Around here we are still celebrating that the Clintons got out of Dixie.

Property values have soared!!

[slum_goddess]

[bear]

I may be in the minority, but I can't stomach Roseanne. Everyone talks about how groundbreaking her show was. A poor family in middle America.

Excuse me, but she stole that from 'Good Times', right down to the one girl being an artist like J.J.

They hit the lottery and suddenly they're the rich rubes.

Excuse me, but she stole that from 'The Beverly Hillbillies'.

Nothing original or talented about her. Annoyingly loud, abrasive, crass and rude. I don't know how she's managed to pull the wool over everyone's eyes for so long.

As far as her 'giving away more money than anyone in her position', that's a claim I doubt she could prove. Even if she could prove it, how incredibly egotistical to make claims of charity publicly, anyway. True charity is anonymous. The second you announce you've given money to this or that, you make it about you, not the cause. Bah.

[DudeAsInCool]

True charity is anonymous. The second you announce you've given money to this or that, you make it about you, not the cause. Bah.

Amen!