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Я противник религии потому, что она заставляет нас отказаться от главного нашего человеческого качества, а именно — от любопытства, способности сомневаться и задавать вопросы. Религия требует одного: веры.
Vladimir Pozner (Parting With Illusions)
Real love involves a foundation of respect, honesty, and trust, concepts wholly missing from the pale imitations hawked to us by the folks who script 'unscripted' entertainment.
Jennifer L. Pozner (Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV)
По мне, лучше иметь дело с откровенным мерзавцем, ничего не проповедующим и ни во что не верующим, чем со святошей-лжепроповедником. По крайней мере, в первом случае знаешь, с кем имеешь дело.
Vladimir Pozner (Parting With Illusions)
But wouldn't [the Spice Girls] have shown a little bit more solidarity if they had at least called themselves feminists? The feminist activist Jennifer Pozner was more dismissive,writing that it was "probably a fair assumption to say that 'zigazig-ha' is not Spice shorthand for 'subvert the dominant paradigm.
Marisa Meltzer (Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music)
Знайте, Генрих, — как-то сказал он, — можно провалить любой экзамен — и это не страшно, его легко пересдать. Можно провалить любой экзамен, кроме одного: экзамена зеркала. Каждое утро вы встаете и, глядя в зеркало, бреетесь. Так вот, не дай бог, чтобы когда-нибудь вам захотелось плюнуть в свое отражение.
Vladimir Pozner (Parting With Illusions)
Advertising is profoundly manipulative at its core. Its imagery strives to deprive us of realistic ideas about love, sex, beauty, health, money, work, and life itself, in an attempt to convince us that only products can bring us true joy. Its practitioners are trained in psychology, sociology, argumentation, poetry, and design. These are powerful tools in the art of persuasion, more so when deployed by a multibillion-dollar industry.
Jennifer L. Pozner (Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV)
By attempting to surgically erase or "correct" visual traits that connect women of colour to their ancestry, these shows perpetrate a symbolic form of ethnic cleansing. That this is justified via the language of individuality and appropriateness - under the guise of helping women "retain her distinctive ethnic appearance" - make it all the more insidious.
Jennifer L. Pozner (Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV)
The human act of blind faith, whether in a god or man, is both noble and tragic. Tragic, because it demands the sacrifice of the very essence of our intellect - the ability to question.
Vladimir Pozner (Parting With Illusions)
Думаю, мой читатель, вы никогда не играли в бейсбол. Для вас гулкий и резкий звук удара деревянной биты о кожаный мяч не означает ничего, не вызывает ни малейших ассоциаций: звук да и только. А в сердце американца при этом возникает целый мир. Он видит игровое поле, чует запах кожаной перчатки-ловушки, следит, как белая сфера маленьким метеором взмывает в голубое небо, а центральный ловец отступает к самой кромке поля, чтобы с лету поймать ее. Этот мир живет в нем, невидимый ни для кого другого, мир, рожденный этим гулким, сухим звуком. Цок! — чистый, сладостный звук удара дерева о конскую кожу. Или, скажем, глотнешь кока-колы — и вдруг тебе снова двенадцать лет, и снова гоняешь мяч с дружками в Вашингтонском сквере в Нью-Йорке… Это и есть тоска по дому. Политика ни при чем, просто-напросто это твой дом и ты оттуда родом.
Vladimir Pozner (Parting With Illusions)
От многих я слышал, будто русские имеют немало общего с американцами - это совершенно не так. Да и откуда у них может быть что-то общее, когда их исторический опыт столь различен? Назовите мне хоть один европейский народ, который в большнистве своем оставался в рабстве до второй поовины девятнадцатого века. Покажите мне народ, который почти три века находился под гнетом гораздо более отсталого завоевателя. Если уж сравнивать, то пожалуй, наиболее похожи друг на друга русские и ирландцы - и по настроению, и по любви к алкоголю и дракам, и по литературному таланту. Но есть принципиальное различие: ирландцы любят себя, вы никогда не услышите от них высказывания вроде "как хорошо, что здесь почти нет ирландцев!
Vladimir Pozner (Parting With Illusions)
Браться за перевод — значит принять вызов. И если ты любишь язык, то вызов в том заключается прежде всего, чтобы предоставить читателю возможность полакомиться совершенно новым блюдом. Вызов замечательный и сводящий с ума — в буквальном смысле слова.
Vladimir Pozner (Parting With Illusions)
So accustomed have male media leaders become to the wealth and decision-making power they command they just can't parse the notion of equality between the sexes. They have never understood the world feminists actually envision, in which women and men share equal educational, economic, and professional opportunities, live free of abuse, can be fully sexual without judgment or coercion, and where girls and boys alike can embrace their authentic selves because no one will be told that strength, tenderness, confidence, empathy, or aggression is "inappropriate" for their gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or physical ability.
Jennifer L. Pozner (Reality Bites Back)
Vous croyez qu'il faut suivre l'ordre chronologique parce qu'on doit être réaliste, et que c'est la vie même. Vous oubliez que ce n'est là qu'une convention littéraire. Quand nous nous sommes connus, vous aviez vingt-cinq ans, j'ai appris bien plus tard comment vous étiez à seize ans, à dix, à cinq, votre premier été au bord de la mer, l'histoire de vos leçons d'anglais. J'ignore encore bien des choses: les trois quarts. Et vous voudriez que je fasse métier de restaurateur, que j'assemble les pièces, que je remplace celles qui manquent et mette des chevilles aux jointures? Vous appelez vie cette fabrication de meubles anciens? Du temps de Voltaire, le fauteuil Voltaire devait s'appeler fauteuil tout court.
Vladimir Pozner
That's just the kind of anxiety reality TV hopes to inspire in female viewers. After all, as advertisers have long understood, it's far easier to shill cosmetics and clothing - not to mention Match.com and and Bally Fitness memberships - to insecure women scared of being alone than to it is to self confident people who believe they're beautiful, lovable, and capable of being happy just as they are.
Jennifer L. Pozner (Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV)
Some series teach us that ethnic features must be "fixed," by drastic means if necessary. Plastic surgeons with questionable ethics give insecure women of all ethnicities boob jobs, liposuction, and face-lifts on shows such as Extreme Makeover, The Swan, and Dr. 90210, ignoring medical risks and reinforcing problematic ideas about women's worth. Yet they don't make white surgical candidates feel like their cultural identity should also be on the chopping blocking - or that they'd be so much more attractive and fulfilled if only they didn't look so... Caucasian. In contrast, TV docs' scalpels reduce or remove racial markers on patients of colour. Black women's noses and lips are made smaller. In an increasingly common procedure targeting Asian women, creases are added to Asian women's eyelids.
Jennifer L. Pozner (Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV)
People shoud try to treasure each other more. Because life eventually disposes of everyone, and you don't know when it's going to happen. So make coffee for your partner, tuck your children into bed. If God forbid that was the last time, you would have that to remember. Sometimes I'm so tired, I have to force myself to do that. To do that extra thing. But then I'm like, 'Remember.
Veronique Haller
Jennifer Pozner put it in 2010 about another massacre by a woman-hating man: I am sick to death that I have to keep writing some version of this same article or blog post on loop. But I have to, because in all of these cases, gender-based violence lies at the heart of these crimes—and leaving this motivating factor uninvestigated not only deprives the public of the full, accurate picture of the events at hand, but leaves us without the analysis and context needed to understand the violence, recognize warning signs, and take steps to prevent similar massacres in the future.
Rebecca Solnit (Men Explain Things to Me)
That's just the kind of anxiety reality TV hopes to inspire in female viewers. After all, as advertisers have long understood, it's far easier to shill cosmetics and clothing - not to mention Match.com and and Bally Fitness memberships - to insecure women scared of being alone than to it is to self confident people who believe they're beautiful, lovable, and capable of being happy just as they are.
Jennifer Pozner
Stay with me...opponents of gay marriage claim that granting equal legal rights to gay couples would degrade the sanctity of a sacred familial institution. What they don't seem to notice is that Who Wants to Marry A Multi-Millionaire?, Married By America and the Bachelor have been degrading the notion of marriage on prime time for an entire decade...
Jennifer L. Pozner (Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV)
And then there were terrible things, like Alex’s assertion that the Sandy Hook massacre of 20 children was “completely fake … they clearly used actors.” Inspired by claims like this, Sandy Hook “truthers” had begun bombarding the parents of the murdered children with messages like: “You’re a fraud and an asshole. Rot in hell you fucking prick.” (That one had been sent to Lenny Pozner, whose 6-year-old son, Noah, died in the shooting.)
Jon Ronson (The Elephant in the Room)