Review: The Curse, Down and Dirty
“That is so beautiful.”
That phrase, spoken multiple times this week on The Curse, is becoming one of Whitney’s catchphrases. She always says it in the same tone of voice: solemn, respectful, yet empathic. But it’s also an incredibly hollow compliment, emphasized by just how often Whitney uses it. The reverence she pays to Cara’s explanation of her impassioned teepee performance is no different from the way she responds to Brett’s laughable caricatures of Native wisdom. Whitney has a knack for making people feel heard, but you get the sense that she’s never really listening at all. If she was, she’d notice all the ways that Cara’s art implicates her.
Whitney’s gushing feels like the perfect distillation of her insincerity, but she can’t step outside herself and see it that way, because she thinks of herself as the one true ally. In fact, when she’s faced with people who aren’t as authentic—or, rather, people who can’t fake authentici…
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