I... think... Hillary Duff is awesome!

[retsuko]

I never, ever thought I would respect Hillary Duff. I mean, tolerate, sure; encourage, why not? Got it hand it to the girl for getting herself a team of smart agents who know merchandising, and hope that she has a damn good accountant who's helping her squirrel most of her profits away for early retirement.

But then I saw this on Feministing, and I kind of sat back in my chair, laughing at the video itself, and not a little surprised at the general vibes of goodwill I was feeling for Hillary Duff. I think this video will manage to do in 30 seconds what I, as an English professor, could not manage to do in a class room over an entire semester. (Well, I could at least get my students to stop saying that in the classroom. However, I think this thing might make people actually think about what they're saying.) It's a timely media virus, one that I hope will dismantle a linguistic pattern of unthinking discrimination.