(Thanks to Deepa for alerting us via the Tip Line!)
Back in college, a single guy friend had a taxonomy of the type of women attracted by the different bands of the political spectrum.
He argued that the average attractive & approachable gal on campus was a soft lefty. She'd advocate things like national healthcare out of a semi-fashionable, prima facie concern for her fellow human beings. Of course, she felt this concern naturally extended into politics & was blind to the economic logic.
Angry, granola gals oppressed by the patriarchy often filled out the far left, weren't exactly the most dateable & he avoided them like the plague. Being famously politically incorrect, he'd remark that these gals were "either angry cuz men always treated them like sexual objects or angry cuz men never treated them like sexual objects." I'll reserve my comments.
By contrast, the few & far between campus Right Wing gals tended to be a tad too country club / prep school for our tastes.
But Libertarian activists? Well unfortunately, a libertarian rally is possibly the only gathering that scares gals off faster than a Star Trek convention. As a self-described libertarian, 'twas a pity.
BUT, enter the first, and possibly the most attractive Desi libertarian female activist I've seen in a long time. Govindini Murty was recently profiled in the Washington Post for hosting a Conservative / Libertarian film festival in the People's Republic of Hollywood -
The festival was organized by a husband-wife duo of young filmmakers, Jason Apuzzo and Govindini Murty, and underwritten by the Foundation for Free Markets, which likes privatizing Social Security, cutting taxes and issuing school vouchers....Murty, an aspiring actress, says the impetus was, in part, the cool reception she and her husband have received in Hollywood for their own screenplays and their film "Terminal Island," which premiered at the festival.
You can read more about the film festival here and the surprising press coverage here. If all you want to do is ogle at Govindini a bit more, you can skip to the photos here.
She also writes sharp-tongued movie reviews for the Hollywood Republicans - for ex - her take on Troy -
Someone's given Hollywood the dangerous idea that it can actually make
historical epics the way it once did back in the 1950s. The result is
Wolfgang Peterson's expensive turkey "Troy," which has more in common with
"Dude Where's My Car" than "The Ten Commandments."The central love story is shallow and insipid. Orlando Bloom's Paris and
Diane Kruger's Helen come across as teenagers fumbling in the back seat of a
borrowed car, not epic lovers. And when the two actors stand together, I
can't tell them apart. Which one's the female?
Heh. She sounds like quite the character. Rock on Govindini.
UPDATE - the Govindini's IMDB entry. This gal rocks!
Govindini and her younger sister began working in their early teens in order to help their mother, and made a number of financial sacrifices in order to keep the family going...When Govindini was fifteen, she lived a year on the island of Borneo, Malaysia...Govindini next received a scholarship to attend Yale University. In addition to working two jobs to pay for her education, Govindini wrote a column for the Yale Daily News, and served as Chair of the Women's Caucus and Vice-Chair of the Independent Party of the Yale Political Union.
...Govindini speaks English, French, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, and some Hindi and Malay. She has also studied Latin, and spoke Bengali and Manipuri as a child.
Oh, and of course, more photos
