NEWS: Lysistrata, Translated and Updated by Miss Sandy Bell

CULTURE: Lysistrata, Translated and Updated by Miss Sandy Bell

If you have yet to see this video that's starting to make the rounds, you really, really have to take a look. It's simultaneously horrifyingly . . . "inappropriate" and hilarious. Also frighteningly catchy.

Garance Franke-Ruta tracked down the director and star. Apparently the former is a member of a NY comedy group called The Dregs, and most of his videos feature very campy drag queens.

Which raises the question--is the video's star, Sandy Bell, a bio-woman or not? Certainly the video itself is campily outrageous enough that she could be a drag queen or transsexual.

Or, you know, maybe she's just a tall, beautiful woman with a fabulous sense of humor.

In any case, I predict that this video is going to be all over the internets once people get back to their desks on Monday morning. But y'all can say you say it here first.

Bitch_PhD has watched this thing about twenty times already, and is still sort of shocked.

Wow!

You win a pony for referencing Lysistrata.

Honey, that PhD isn't there for kicks.

I was in an apadtation of Lysistrata, adapted and set in the middle east. So hot belly dancers and enuuchs a-go-go

I don't know why you think she's a T-girl...hormones don't change your voice.

There's something Margaret Cho-ish about this. Reminds me of the parody songs she's co-written.

So, yeah, it's funny and all - but mostly I'm intrigued 'cause Sandy Belle there is pretty damn hot.

I say it here first.

I think I get the jist of it in the first twenty seconds after she opens her mouth. Her voice just rubs me the wrong way and I can't listen to any more. Maybe if someone else did a rock version, like Cat in the Cradle...

I'd settle for just reading the lyrics though.

Oh please. Lysistrata is hardly obscure.

And that chick is ugly.

Oh, no, really, believe me, you don't. It just gets better and better. By which I mean, more and more "oh. my. god."

Yeah, that's why I'm joking. Bug up your butt, hon?

Impressively relevant and feminist criticism of the song, there.

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Seems a rather un-feministy thing to say.

+1
she's pretty in that boring country muisic way, like Miranda Lambert or whoever. plus her voice is annoying as hell. i'm assuming that she sings that way because it's a parody of a country song, but still.

+1

I'm not sure, but I think that at 1:40 - 1:52 she references Magic Missile from D&D.

I'm sure that is an incredibly witty post but I just don't get the references.

Update from TheGarance

That place is a block away.

Lysistrata

Umm... I meant except for that one.

I should give up trying irony on the internet.

I should have caught that you were kidding. I also should have specified I was actually rolling my eyes at finklestein for lauding your literary knowledge over something as mainstream as Aristophanes.

I thought his comment was pretty patronizing, frankly.

I think given the context "her" appearance is extremely relevant. She's beckoning the troops home (albeit with her tongue planted firmly in cheek) with an ugly mug.

If I were making light of the looks of a political candidate or CEO or any other woman whose looks have nothing to do with her public persona, I would deserve getting called out for a lack of feminist sensibilties. In this case, I'm justified.

Luminous. And that dame is fluffy.

We're playing Mad Libs, right?