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Manner of Speaking · Joined: 09 Jan 2003

So "Big Bill" has come to the rescue and "the girls" are safe and sound and on their way home.

You know, I despise the average man-hating feminist...but the gender-related themes running through this whole story are fascinating to behold.

Two American journalists, both female and by some standards photogenic (to those suffering from Yellow Fever, or at least one of them is by-relation because her sister is fairly good-looking) go off to the border of Mordor...uh, North Korea...and by all accounts illegally cross the border.

They get arrested, put in jail and are held incommunicado by a big, bad ogre of a regime that is headed by an unattractive little dwarf who despite his looks, has a reputation for using his money and power to do a little womanizing now and then.

"The girls" have their pictures splashed across the front pages and websites of news organizations around the world, the worldwide outrage is palpable, but one can't help but wonder would the outrage have been so palpable if someone if the two journalists were a little more ugly or a little more male...

...are tried in secret, found guilty and "sentenced" to twelve years "hard labor" ...although in fact they have apparently "languished" in a rather comfortable medium-security facility for the last 100 days or so.

In secret, Obama (by some accounts a hottie)'s White House secretly negotiates a deal whereby former President Bill Clinton (also by some accounts a hottie, but who has a history of having his way with The Young and the Stupid) goes off to Pyongyang...

... has a photo-op with the ugly little Brown Dwarf, and successfully frees the "girls" and carries them home on his own white-winged chariot.

I guess Bill had to do this to make up for the fact that he's married to the Maureen-Dowd/dour-prim-Mama type who only recently wagged her pantsuit-clad finger at the Little Brown Dwarf and told him to stop acting like a baby.

What a great fairy tale.

And so many questions left to answer!

Would the Little Brown Dwarf have arrested two such journalists if they were male, or would he have had them shot?

Did the Little Brown Dwarf and Big Bill trade war stories over a beer while The Girls waited quietly with that endearing submissiveness Asian girls are so famous for in the other room?

Were The Girls so grateful to Big Bill for their rescue they did him a threesome on the plane on the way home? And if so, what is Dour Mama going to have to say about this?

Stay tuned! Laughing

soviet_man · Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Location: Seoul

The DPRK would of got something in return.

Needn't think they did it for free comrade.

The Great Wall of Whiner · Joined: 24 Jan 2003 Location: Middle Land

Such an inappropriate commentary. Rolling Eyes

You can't even be happy for them or their family and have to politicize and sexualize everything, don't you?

Manner of Speaking · Joined: 09 Jan 2003

?? Who says I'm not happy for them? I just think the whole story would make a great musical. Laughing

stevieg4ever · Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Location: London, England

LOL great piece dude... "dour mama" "little brown dwarf"

the Korean's picture looked like an add for an LA massage parlour or something...

I am sure Euna and Laura are suitably 'positioned' to reward Bill, one playing the submissive Asian school girl the other a leather bound dominatrix.

Sergio Stefanuto · Joined: 14 May 2009 Location: UK

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

If Lucy Liu hasn't optioned the rights to the coming book, she's a fool. It's the best screenplay for an ethnic Asian actress in since Joy Luck Club. Two reasonably attractive young women in the wilds of Manchuria researching human trafficking (sex slavery: a twofer) get nabbed by the (arguably) worst regime on the face of the earth, held incommunicado for months, a kangaroo trial with a harsh sentence and in the end rescued by a white-haired knight on a white horse.

What's not to like? You could even throw in a ravishing by a handsome Nork guard and the love story that ensues--it was a hit in Seoul a few years ago.

This thing has possibilities.

The Great Wall of Whiner · Joined: 24 Jan 2003 Location: Middle Land

I'd pay to watch that movie. mind you, I'm a Lucy Liu fan. YUM YUM.

RJjr · Joined: 17 Aug 2006 Location: Turning on a Lamp

Me too. I liked her as that dominatrix in Payback.

Medic · Joined: 11 Mar 2003

In the pictures they look very healthy strutting across the tarmac in their nikes. Wonder if they were given specific clothes to wear knowing they were going to be on national Television.
Looks too good in fact.

Couldn't the idiot girl who did the talking when they returned have written a script to read.