Meryl Streep Denounces Trump Without Saying His Name
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Meryl Streep Just Denounced Trump and Called for Freedom of the Press in One Truly Epic Golden Globes Speech Marie Claire
"This instinct to humiliate, when it's modeled by someone in the public platform . . . filtered into everybody's life."
Actor Meryl Streep chose her platform of receiving her Golden Globe Cecil B. Demille Award to speak about America's president-elect Donald Trump.
"There was one performance this year that stunned me," she said. "It sank its hooks in my heart. Not because it was good. There was nothing good about it. But it was effective and it did its job. It made its intended audience laugh and show their teeth. It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it. I still can't get it out of my head because it wasn't in a movie. It was real life."
With real tears -- that the president-elect would most surely mock as representing the fake tears of liberal Hollywood and liberal, pc Hillary supporters -- flowing in the room, Streep continued:
"And this instinct to humiliate, when it's modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody's life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing," she continued. "Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. And the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose...This brings me to the press. We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call them on the carpet for every outrage. That's why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in our constitution. So I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood foreign press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting the committee to protect journalists. Because we're going to need them going forward. And they'll need us to safeguard the truth.
One more thing: Once, when I was standing around on the set one day whining about something—we were going to work through supper, or the long hours, or whatever—Tommy Lee Jones said to me, 'Isn't it such a privilege, Meryl, just to be an actor?' Yeah, it is. And we have to remind each other of the privilege and the responsibility of the act of empathy. We should all be very proud of the work Hollywood honors here tonight. As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once, "Take your broken heart, make it into art. Thank you."
British Fashion & Culture Website Follows Republicans' Plan To Defund Planned Parenthood
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It's amazing that even Britain's Dazed Digital is following Republicans plan to defund Planned Parenthood -- stripping away funds for services that represent about 40% -- or $400 million -- of the organization's revenues.
Only 3% of Planned Parenthood's services are for abortions and there are no health clinics for poor Americans in many communities that can replace the large number of the more tshan 270,000 pap tests, 360,000 breast exams and treatment for more than 4.2 million tis every year. In addition, Planned Parenthood's education program is given to 1.5 million people in a single year.
Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan announced that the defunding of Planned Parenthood will be part of the budget reconciliation process, which will require only simple majorities in the House and Senate. The question is whether or not President Trump will sign it -- and all assumptions are that he will. The results for poor women especially will be simply devastating, unless major philanthropists step in to plug the funding chasm.
For a more detailed discussion of Republicans and Planned Parenthood, read our recent AOC Women's News As Trump Readies Planned Parenthood Rodeo, Half of Trump Voters Support Funding & Expect Him To Stand Down
Unlike Facebook, Instagram Provides Major Platform For Frank Talk About Public Breastfeeding
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Unlike Facebook, Instagram Provides Major Platform For Frank Talk About Public Breastfeeding
Multiple celebrities like new mom Candice Swanepoel are using Instagram to launch a major discussion around the public shaming of discreet breastfeeding moms in America. And a new image from app from Pics Art comes to the rescue, taking the 'brelfie' to a new level by creating 'tree of life' pictures of mom and child.
Lauren Hutton -- A Woman For All Seasons -- For Bottega Veneta Spring 2017
/Whispers drifted through Milan's Brera Academy with the launch of Bottega Veneta's Spring 2017 show. Was Lauren Hutton really returning to celebrate the brand's 50th anniversary?
Like an ethereal goddess, the 72-year-old Hutton suddenly appeared, epitomizing the timeless, easy appeal of the Bottega woman. When she appeared again, Hutton was accompanied by social media it girl Gigi Hadid, two all-American bombshells as Vogue described them. Separated by five decades, both femmes exuded "larer-than-life personalities, healthy good looks, and boundless reserves of energy."
Lauren Hutton appears today untrenched and now a lady in red for her bow in Bottega Veneta's Spring 2017 ad campaign.
Lauren Hutton 2013 In Interview Magazine
Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Hutton spent her formative years in Tampa, Florida. After arriving in New York from New Orleans, where she'd been attending college, she did a three-month stint as a waitress at the Playboy Club, before entering the modeling business at the height of the Mad Men-ish 1960s and at a time when young women were suddenly looking to do something other than subside prettily (and quietly) into domestic idyll. Hutton was a different kind of woman entirely: she wore jeans and sneakers and rode motorcycles and rolled her own cigarettes and went to Uganda. Vogue editor Diana Vreeland was an early supporter, introducing her to Richard Avedon; their first session together yielded those famous pictures of Hutton leaping and bounding in studio. Irving Penn was another photographer who very quickly cleaved to Hutton's betraying blue eyes and famously gap-toothed smile (for a time, she tried to fill in the space with wax or caps, which she occasionally swallowed). In fact, several years later, Hutton would appear on the cover of Vogue alongside the phrase "The American Woman Today," an appropriate headline for a woman who was quickly becoming the definition—or the redefinition—of American beauty.
Hutton's success—and where it led—changed the modeling industry. In 1973, she landed what became a landmark contract with Revlon, and her status as the first $1 million-a-year girl had the collateral effect of increasing pay for models across the board, in some ways, giving rise to the more complex business infrastructure that surrounds modeling today.
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George Michaels' 'Freedom': Christy, Cindy, Linda, Naomi and Tatjana Reflect On Making The Video
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Christy, Linda, Naomi, Cindy & Tatjana by Peter Lindbergh for Vogue Australia As 'Supernova'
Last year celebrated the 25th anniversary of George Michael's 1990 music video 'Freedom!', an anthem for women, LGBTQ people, women and men of color, and hundreds of kindred spirits everywhere who were trying to establish their own identities against the patriarchal, monotheistic, global norms confining us in their medicine-bottle vision of appropriate behaviors and self-identiites.
George Michaels threw a sledge hammer into that power structure metaphorically -- if not actually -- with his 'Freedom' video and lyrics. As The Republican War on Women and many more -- based on its Godly, male-centric vision for America -- rolls into Washington, led by their new God Donald Trump -- we revisit 'Freedom' a day after progressive spirits are crushed by the death of George Michaels at 53. In a year when we've lost some of our best -- Bowie, and Prince come to mind, and now Michaels, our loss isn't only about talent but rather critical messaging and philosophy.
Last year, Harper's Bazaar asked the fabulous 5 -- Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford and Tatjana Patitz -- who made the 'Freedom' video to reflect back on that day.
Naomi Campbell
"I came to the set on the first day they were shooting. On my god, it was crazy! It was during the fashion collections, so I came straight from Paris, and I'd done 4 or 5 shows the day before and we finished at 2 o'clock in the morning. They didn't have the Eurostar then, so I took the 6 o'clock train to London and then went to the airport. I didn't sleep -- I went from the plane to the shower to the set. I was up all night working to work all night again! But it was great. I love George Michael, and I love all the girls who were in it, and the director, David Fincher, is a great filmmaker."
Tatjana Patitz
"All the models and I knew George Michael -- I think I had done a photo shoot with him at some point before. His manager contacted my agent to see if I could do the video. George wasn't in it -- he wasn't even on the set when I was there. David Fincher directed it, which was so exciting even then because he had already done one of Madonna's.
Linda Evangelista
"25 years later, this video -- and not my magazine covers -- is what people mention the most when they approach me on the street. It's pretty incredible."
Christy Turlington
"It was a whirlwind. I flew in from LA and drove straight to the set, so I was pretty delirious. Each of us filmed for a day on our own, except Linda and I overlapped on the last day because we had a scene together. They were long days. I don't recall any specific direction from David Fincher. He was focused on the lighting I recall. George was there the whole time."
Cindy Crawford
"I remember them sending me a Walkman so I could learn the words before I got to set. The studio was huge and dark and smoky. Someone explained to me that my first shot would be in a bathtub. They oiled me up and put me in an empty tub with a smoke machine to look like steam. I had to sit on an apple crate because you couldn't see me over the edge of the tub. My second shot was sitting on a chair with a towel on my head, and I kept thinking my part wasn't going to be that sexy. I watched the video recently, as I wanted to write about the whole supermodel phenomenon in my new book, 'Becoming', and my kids were like, "Hey, we know that song!" I think it stands the test of time and still looks amazing today. I like how David Fincher saw something different in each of us and tried to bring that out in the video."
As Trump Readies Planned Parenthood Rodeo, Half of Trump Voters Support Funding & Expect Him To Stand Down
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Planned Parenthood is sending a message to Donald Trump and the Republicans: They will defund us "At Their Peril".
In a shocking-to-many new study by Harvard's School for Public Health, almost half of Trump supporters are against cutting all federal funds to Planned Parenthood. Add Clinton voters with 70% wanting continued federal funding for PP and it's clear that making defunding Planned Parenthood a top priority could be perilous for Republicans.
The primarily women's health-care provider followed up on the study results with focus groups this month with Trump voters in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Wisconsin, writes Vogue. Many men had a lot to say. Dawn Laguens, executive vice president and chief brand officer of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund (PPAF) explained the essential nature of Planned Parenthood clinics in rural, medically underserved regions, including those in key Trump-supporting states.
'Influencer' Amy Sall Sees No Place For Silent Mouths On Politics & The American Experience
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Unlike many fashion 'infuencers', Amy Sall who has appeared in fashion campaigns for J Crew and Kenzo x H&M, uses her social media cache to promote social justice issues like advocating for African youth and the African diaspora. Sall is also the editor and founder of a journal of African Affairs, SUNU.
"I just think that we are in a time where you cannot be idle," Sall tells Christene Barberich, global editor-in-chief and cofounder of Refinery 29, in the latest episode of UnStyled. "You can't be a bystander. You can't be passive. What I noticed on certain social media accounts is that people tried to address some of the issues that we've been facing, but in a way that was almost performative. That, to me, is almost worse than just not saying anything at all. And you continue to post your vacation... People are being shot and killed in the streets. And to respond in a way that just seems like, I don't know, packaged, it doesn't feel right. It doesn't sit well with me."
Sall's Instagram feed is divine. Rich in beauty and intelligent thinking. One of the best I've seen. ~ Anne
Watching 'The Crown' With the QE2 Falling Apart In Dubai & John Boehner's Tears Long Gone From Trumpworld
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Could we agree that any woman trying to lead the free world, who cried in prime time, would be run out of Dodge? I finally tuned into the Netflix series 'The Crown', and I assure you that the young queen Elizabeth will be steely and duty-driven -- keeping it together when her father dies. And that is exactly how the second episode ends, with Elizabeth burying her adoring love and grief for her dead father deep in her heart, now masked by royal obligations to her public and the entire British Empire.
Watching 'The Crown' knowing that the electoral college voted on Monday for Donald Trump as America's next president, I can't help thinking about Republican John Boehner's arrival as Speaker of the House. He wept through his 2010 60 Minutes interview, a reality that did not amuse me in the least, given the Republican agenda for America. In fact, those tears are typically called a charade when a damsel in distress turns on the floodgates.
Indeed when I wrote about Boehner's intentions to lead the charge against abortion and contraception rights in America, it was after after watching a chilling meeting with his chief of staff Mick Krieger accepting one of those tiny plastic babies in perfect form meant to represent a six-week old embryo. In reality, those cells and molecules are a blob about the size of a pomegranate seed, and I don't mean to be disrespectful in any way. But it's another example of post-factual information suggesting that these perfectly formed cereal box creatures (I am not making this up. Republicans put them in cereal and candy boxes at state fairs) are in any way representative of the actual pregnancy process. To me the meeting signalled the hell that poor women in America would go through as Republicans ripped away not only abortion rights but also access to contraception and general health care for women living all over America in impoverished communities. There is no satisfaction in saying that my instincts were correct.
'Nasty Woman' T-Shirt Raises Over $100,000 In Trump's Name For Planned Parenthood
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As the Donald Trump Administration launches its full-frontal assault on American women (you know, grab 'em by our pu#sies so we know who is boss), Katy Perry steps up to the plate reminding us that 'nasty women' get shit done.
After Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton a 'nasty woman' during October's third presidential debate, the Internet and Twitter immediately claimed the term as a rallying call for women worldwide. The Cut reports that even today, the 'Nasty Woman' merchandise is flying off shelves shows no sign of slowing down.
The most successful item to date is Google Ghost's 'Nasty Woman' t-shirt, which donates half of proceeds from shirt revenue directly to Planned Parenthood and in Trump's name. The donation to date is $100,165 for Planned Parenthood.
If you are ready to rally for 'Nasty Women' worldwide, join us at the Washington DC Women's March on January 21 or at marches in your local community. See Women's March on Washington FB page.
Related: With regard to top Hillary supporter Lena Dunham's 'Distasteful Joke' about abortion, we can only say: with friends like her, who needs enemies. Thanks Lena for fueling every dirty, rotten image of feminism worldwide. Talk about East Coast, liberal narcissism that damages dirt poor women in Texas. Just yesterday, Texas -- which lost its big case to derail abortion and contraception rights in Texas -- moved again to block Medicaid funds from going to Planned Parenthood for any reason.
Barbara Jatta Appointed First Female Director of Vatican Museums
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Pope Francis' Tuesday announcement that art historian Barbara Jatta will become the new director of the Vatican Museums, marking the first time that a woman will lead one of the most important art institutions worldwide. Previously, Jatta worked at the Vatican Library, overseeing its collection of prints.
A Rome native, Jatta has worked for the Vatican since 1996 and will now become one of its most powerful administrators. While Pope Francis wants to increase the roles for women in the Catholic Church, he remains firm that the most important Vatican posts are reserved for cardinals and bishops, who are universally male.
The Vatican Museums represent 54 galleries acrross seven kilometers, receiving six million visitors in 2015. Regularly listed among the top 10 visited museums in the world, the Vatican museums represent one of the Holy See's biggest income sources. Estimates are about $311 million in gross revenues and $41 million in profits are driven by Barbara Jatta's new assignment.
IMF's Christine Lagarde Found Guilty In French Negligence Case | No Fine Or Jail Time
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IMF's Christine Lagarde Found Guilty In French Negligence Case | No Fine Or Jail Time
Even the prosecutor in the case against International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde described it as a weak one seriously lacking in evidence that Lagarde misused public funds as France's finance minister. Jean-Claude Marin wanted judges last Thursday that they were treading a fine line between the law and politics, being guilty themselves of confusing 'criminal negligence' with 'making a bad political decision'.
Nevertheless, Lagarde, who was formerly France's finance minister, was gound guilty of negligence, with no penalties.
Gerry Rice, a spokesperson for the Washington-based IMF said the fund's executive board would meet later on Monday to consider options. The IMF is currently under scrutiny for its role in the Greek bailout and is deeply concerned about its future in a Donald Trump administration.
The New York Times writes that Lagarde's departure from the fund is considered unlikely, as the executive board has stood firmly behind her.
Updated: IMF Chief Christine Lagarde Will Keep Her Job Despite Conviction Fortune
Jennifer Lawrence Talks Clinton Politics & America's Future On Good Morning America
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Jennifer Lawrence Is Lensed by Ben Hassett In 'Extra Terrestre' For Yo Dona December 2016
Top actor Jennifer Lawrence spoke out Monday morning about her post Trump-election mindset. "I didn't mean to speak to only people who voted for Hillary ," Lawrence told Micael Strahan on 'Good Morning America.' "I meant to just speak to the divide . . . for any presidential candidate, being very extreme is scary, left or right."
The 'Passengers' actor made headlines post-November election, when she penned an essay for Broadly Don't Be Afraid, Be Loud: Jennifer Lawrence on What We Do Next.
Do not let this defeat you--let this enrage you!
Diversity Gets Major Uplift On US Fashion Magazine Covers Reports Fashionista
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Fashionista beat me to the topic of diversity on US magazine covers. I was about to praise Vogue US for featuring women of color three months in a row -- November 2016-January 2017.
Fashionista has tracked diversity on magazine covers in-depth for several years, and finally we are celebrating some progress.
This time last year, we reported a disappointing statistic: That diversity on the covers of 10 leading U.S. fashion publications — Allure, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Glamour, Harper's Bazaar, InStyle, Nylon, Teen Vogue, Vogue and W — did not improve in 2015 from 2014. In 2015, 27 of 136 covers featured people of color* while the year before, 27 of 137 did. It was an improvement, technically, but only from 19.7 percent to 19.8 percent.
In 2016, however, there have been sizable lifts in cover star diversity across the board. For consistency's sake, we reviewed the covers from the same titles we looked at in 2015 — all 147 of them. And we found that 53 of 147 covers — or 36 percent — starred people of color*, as compared to 2015's 19.8 percent. That's a 16.9 percent rise.
AOC gives Vogue US a sound round of applause for featuring three inspiring women of color in a row: Lupita Nyong'o, Michelle Obama and 'Loving' star and Golden Globe nominee Ruth Negga. See their editorials, covers and interviews.
Vogue US January 2017: Ruth Negga
Vogue US December 2016: Michelle Obama
Editorial and Anne's commentary about Michelle Obama's mission to educate girls worldwide.
Vogue US November 2016: Lupita Nyong'o
Editorial and Anne's rich rieview of Lupita's trip to Kenya.
Michelle Obama Raises Her Torch For Global Girl's Education In 'We Will Rise'
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Michelle Obama Raises Her Torch For Global Girl's Education In 'We Will Rise'
It's factual to say that I'm in total avoidance psychologically and emotionally over the Obamas leaving the White House and the Trumps moving in. I do not intend to watch the inauguration and will probably be sobbing -- as I was last night watching CNN's film 'We Will Rise' about Michelle Obama's global education initiative for girls. CNN's Isha Sesay is joined by Freida Pinto and Meryl Streep as they travel to Liberia and Morocco in advance of Michelle Obama's arrival.
Watching the First Lady's plane land first in Liberia, I simply lost it totally and the tears were endless. I was so proud watching that big jet with USA emblazoned on it touch down, and my pain was acute knowing that most probably all the girls' and women's initiatives launched first by Hillary Clinton as Secy of State and then continued by Michelle Obama will be lost in a Trump Administration. Can you imagine Melania and Ivanka touching down In Liberia and Morocco -- unless it's Marrakech and the refurbished La Mamounia hotel? No, you can't.
Interviewed by CNN about her commitment to girls' education, Michelle Obama says: "This issue is personal for me".
For me, education was power.
Diana Gordon, Beyonce Songwriter, Launches New Feminist Anthem Called 'Woman'
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Songwriter Diana Gordon has written memorable lyrics for Beyoncé, including three song on 'Lemonade': 'Sorry', 'Don't Hurt Yourself' and 'Daddy Lessons'. Having worked for years in dance clubs under the name Wynter Gordon, the songstress just premiered her first music video on Vogue.com: 'a feminist anthem called 'Woman'.
In the video, shot by director Cameron McCool in grainy black-and-white around New York City, Gordon and a group of bare-chested pregnant women in tailored topcoats are the ultimate symbol of bad-ass feminine power. “We shot this video on a cold day in November; five pregnant women on the cusp of giving birth, and hungry, everyone having to pee at the same time,” wrote Gordon in an email. “This song, that celebrates your mother, my mother, your sister, and my sister, is just my way to stand up for the woman next to me and all those unseen. In a time when we are still defending our right to choose, pay equality, moral and ethical equality; a time where single motherhood is on the rise and women are in the trenches raising the next generation largely by themselves, we have to be all-encompassing and stay strong through the worst of situations. We need to stand together.” Words to live by. Watch below.
America's Alt-Right White Men Attack Liberalism With Pizzagate & Moral Outrage
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Over the past six weeks, the alleged story of Hillary Clinton and other prominent members of the Democratic Party establishment participating in an international child sex ring has morphed into a front page story. "It began in October, when a baseless rumor about emails allegedly discovered on Anthony Weiner’s laptop made its way through Twitter and 4chan and conspiracy-theorist websites", writes Slate.
Self-deputized online investigators combed through the emails of Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, dumped by WikiLeaks. Finding only campaign talk and recipes, the 'investigators' concluded that innocuous terms used in Podesta’s emails were actually a series of secret codes: “pizza” for girl, “ice cream” for male prostitute, and so on. Comet Ping Pong, a Washington, D.C. pizzeria that had hosted a Democratic fundraiser, was identified (also baselessly) as a headquarters for sex-ring activities. The conspiracy theory acquired a name, “Pizzagate.”
On Sunday a man wielding an assault rifle entered Comet Ping Pong, saying he was there to investigate Pizzagate. 4chan users are confident that the man is part of a false-flag operation being carried out by the establishment to discredit their investigation. Consider that every falsehood has another one to explain why it isn't.
The Clintons have been accused of every possible crime over the course of their 30-plus years in politics, but this one takes the cake, so to speak. We should remember, however, that America has been obsessed with child-sex-rings for the last 30 years. Slate reviews this sordid history of false allegations.
Related: Trump Fires Adviser's Son From Transition for Spreading Fake News The New York Times
Will Ivanka Trump Be the Most Powerful First Daughter in History?
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Will Ivanka Trump Be the Most Powerful First Daughter in History? AOC Front Page
How the Trump daughter runs the family businesses while acting as a policy adviser to her father -- without conflicts of interest guaranteed to rock a Trump presidency -- currently is a topic of hot debate. Yet, when House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called the president-elect shortly after November 8, he handed the phone to his daughter when the conversation moved from infrastructure and domestic policy to women's issues.
Melinda Gates Assumes Primary Role In Defending Women's Health & Reproductive Rights Worldwide
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Melinda Gates Assumes Primary Role In Defending Women's Health & Reproductive Rights Worldwide AOC Front Page
Pictured above on her first trip to Africa in 1993, Melinda Gates could now be the most important action hero for women worldwide. That includes America, where the Republican War on Women is in full swing with their commitment to defunding Planned Parenthood, rolling back not only abortion rights but rights to contraception as well, and focusing on personhood legislation, which not only establishes a legal definition of life as beginning at conception, but severely limiting the civil rights of all pregnant women by equating her rights with those of a 24-hour old fertilized egg.
With the rise of alt-right lover Donald Trump as America's next president, the Trump administration is surrounding themselves with officials who want to implement this full-court strategy against American women asap.
Without Hillary Clinton at the helm of the American presidency, the future of women's most precious rights probably falls to Melinda Gates, who is notably apolitical. The first order in a Trump administration will be once again cutting off any federal government support for contraception and family planning worldwide. America's Catholic bishops and Christian conservatives in Congress won't permit it.
Read on about Melinda Gates and her refusal to bow to these massive powers that dominate American culture.
