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Oh, I'm totally fine with her acting sexy if she wants to! God knows there are few things more attractive than Joanna Newsom's bodily incarnation (and that's coming from a gay guy). I'm only concerned because of how it affects interpretations of her records - most of the men I know that liked Have One On Me have mentioned more than a few times how 'hot' she is. Does her attempts at being a sex symbol detract from her music, do you think?

I agree that Dolly Parton is an extremely talented and influential musician that has allowed herself to be sexualised to quite extensively, but she's hardly a good role model, and I do think her image detracts from her music quite a bit. Dolly's hardly a feminist, though, and there are plenty of feminist interpretations of Joanna Newsom's music that can be made.

if she had no ass would people think she was being overly sexual/sexualized?

I feel strange thinking about Joanna in a sexual way.

So far neither link posted here seems to work. The "stink" link leads to a page that says it's broken. The other goes to a page that says it wants to find a format for the video that my computer can play and it keeps trying and trying ... WEAK.

Oh and this is the Internet. Last time I checked you don't need to go through layers of lawyers and marketing soldiers to run a video on the Web. If Drag City wants to support its artists this video would have aired on the label's web site months ago when it was first made ... Unless this is all a marketing ploy to run the full version around the same time Joanna makes her appearance on the second season of Portlandia. Hmm ... How clever ...

http://stereogum.com/898531/joanna-news ... rpt/video/

The original link still works for me.

The three of you will wait quietly outside the concert venue, then get into action as soon as she gets out

Statisticians don't go in for that sort of thing.

Unfortunately!

A discussion about Joanna's musical talents takes a dramatic turn for the pubescent.

stuntress = a shocking lock of hair

Very good, Polliwog!

But with the aid of my dictionary, I was surprised at the words one could find on the pages that cover stunt and where stuntress would have been if it hadn't been a made-up word:

under Stump (alternatively / archaically stompe, stowmpe, stumpe, stoomp, stumppe) - the remaining part of an amputated limp; arudimentary limb or member; leg (jocularly), walk or dance briskly, do ones duties seriously; a wooden leg; the remaining part of a chopped down tree or broken tower, tooth, branch, mast, haystack, leaf, stalk; stubble or close-cut hair; a worn down item (eg pencil or fag-end); a docked tail; cheque counterfoil; short post [unlike this one]; and a host of special combinations, including stump bed, stump-bred, stump cricket, stump embroidery, stump end, stump-jump (a type of plough), stump machine, stump pie, stump tracery, stump-work (embroidery).
Stump - an artist's implement used to rub over and blend pencil or crayon lines.
Stump - heavy or lame-footed gait; to do something dangerous [US colloquialism]; stump-stump (to come and go).
Stump - to wear down to a stump; to trip over a stump; to put a batsman out in cricket by dislodging a bail or knocking over a stump; to boast; to pay up (stump up); to wear out [a horse].
Stumpage - tax paid for growing or cutting timber.
Stumped - cut short.
Stumper - boaster; crcketer who stumps; horse with a stiff leg; a question or problem that confounds (stumps); orator (stump speaker).
Stumpie - the stump of a pencil.
Stumping - the action of the above verb, in walking, cricketting, or orating senses; clumsily formed.
Stumpish - having the properties of a stump.
Stumple - utensil for cutting a bull's tail, alt to strumpler.
Stumpless - cleared or devoid of stumps
Stumpling - a small stump.
Stumpy - a spritasil barge; money [slang].
Stumpy - being like a stump (short and thick); containing stumps; worn to a stump. Hence Stumpily, Stumpiness.

Stun - the act of stunning or dazing, or the condition thus induced; a flaw in the surface of a stone. Hence stunned; stunning; archaic: stond, stund, stunt, stoned, stonet, stonnd, stonn'd, astone; possibly stunian (to resound). To deprive of consciousness or power of motion by a blow or a fall; to daze or astound with strong emotion, or bewilder with noise; to crush with blows; to scratch, tear, loosen, or bruise a surface (stone, wood) so that it flakes off; hence stunned.

Stunay - stony
Stunch(e) - stench.
Stund - stand.
Stund(e) - stoun, stound.

Stundism - the teaching and practice of stundists.
Stundist - a member of a large South Russian / German evangelical sect, in opposition to the Orthodox church.

Stundum - at times.

Stung (and archaic stungen, songyn, stung'd) - wounded or hurt by a sting.

Stunkard, also stonkard - sulky or sullen.

Stunner - something or someone that stuns, dazes, or astounds, or of extraordinary attractiveness or excellence.
Stunning - action of the verb stun; tate of being stunned; that stuns or stupefies; excellent, first-rate; hence stunningly.

Stunny, stunnye - stont, stonish.

Stunpoil, stunpole - a dolt or blockhead.

Stunsail - [contraction] studding-sail.

Stunt - a check in growth, arrested growth or development; a creature so affected; a fit of sulkiness [to take (the) stunt].
Stunt - a prescribed trick or event in an athletic or gymnastic performance; a response to a challenge; an entertainment; a military advance.
Stunt, archaic stunnt, stont - foolish; short in duration; obstinate, rudely curt; short and thick or dwarfed; abrupt (of a bend); combination: stunt-head (engineering) the vertical end face of a ditch.
Stunted - checked in growth, diminutive; also used in combination as part of a term for a small organism; hence stuntedly, stuntedness.
Stunting - the action of the verb to stunt.
Stunting - that stunts.
Stuntise - arrogance, violence.
Stuntly, stuntlie - stupid, foolish; foolishly; arrogantly.
Stuntness - foolishness, arrogance; abrupt brevity.
Stunty - shortness of growth; sulky, obstinate, curt, blunt.

Stuorie - a mat

Stupa, stuppa - a mat; a Buddhist monument.

Make a note of this date and forum so that you can prove your claim to having coined the word "stuntress". I will be content with having supplied an alternate definition.

I fink it's Artemis the sainted one, innit