Say Anything Blog

This is choreographer Mia Michaels, one of the judges in last week’s So You Think You Can Dance, another of the unimaginative programs that infuse television in place of programs that would require creative thought to produce, but that’s another story.

The day after the episode, which I didn’t watch because no one was there with a gun to my head or holding my family hostage in order to make me, she woke up to find hundreds of e-mails on her computer. Thinking she was receiving the accolades the voices in her head told her she so richly deserves she began reading them. She was appalled to find out that the vast majority of people who had e-mailed her, instead of praising her lavishly, were rather upset because of what she wore.

And so am I.

She wore the Marine Corps dress blue blouse with the rank insignia of a lance corporal sewn to the cuff. Upside down.

On behalf of everyone who earned that uniform, including my humble self, I have a question for her and all of her ilk: Who the eff do you think you are? I could and probably should go off on a sputtering tirade about how better men and women than her actually earn that uniform and wear it with a pride that she and her kind will never, ever understand. But I won’t.

I could tell her that many men and women who have died in the service of this country have been buried in that uniform. I could say that on her best days she will never be the person, man or woman, that the lowest private who graduated from Marine Corps boot camp is. And that she could never bring herself to endure what they have to endure in the process of earning that uniform.

Or serving this country. After all, they might have to give up a latte or two to do that and that simply will not do, will it?

Of course, I could be wrong. She did offer something of an apology after being shocked by the e-mail criticisms she received. I’ll give her some credit for that much anyway. But….that also begs the question: How is it possible that someone could be so out of touch with this country that it wouldn’t occur to them that wearing that uniform might offend a good number of people?

Pretty narrow field of vision out there in left field, isn’t it?

Michelle Malkin has more on this. Check it out, it’s interesting reading.

We are so screwed.