What the designer seemed to be saying, after her dynamic but simplistic racing car theme for her last women's collection, was that if men like cars, they like power, with all the trappings of formal tailoring and linear coats even more.
It is foolhardy to reduce a complex human being to something as simplistic as race.
Dr. Lander said, "I think these data have tremendous potential to deconstruct simplistic notions of race and ethnicity".
In his disregard for simplistic dualities regarding race and sex, he helped set the stage for transgressive work by painters like Ellen Gallagher, Kerry James Marshall, Sue Williams and Carroll Dunham and multimedia artists like Kara Walker, William Pope.L and Kalup Linzy.
It gleefully lambasts simplistic attitudes to race, fame and the media but, like the stand-up routines that made its star a household name, it falls back on tired cliches when removed from its comfort zone.
Some American reviewers have questioned its simplistic view of race relations, but it's not hard to see the wish-fulfilling appeal of "The Intouchables" in France (and elsewhere in Europe), where mainstream cinema has largely ignored the increasingly thorny subject of race.
Easily the worst winner of that award ever (tough field), the movie was a thoughtless – and indeed artless – liberal wank, where the takeout message seemed to be that some kind of excruciatingly simplistic dialogue about race was America's fast-track ticket to harmony.
We'll see whether the Oscars elevate its profile — they do love simplistic movies about race, after all — but I'd like to think a good faction of America will see "Green Book" for what it is: trite, undercooked and, yep, disappointing.
While the "AfD versus Merkel" provides a comfortable media frame, reducing a complex multiparty system to a two-horse race, it is simplistic and wrong.
Perhaps, like Trump's simplistic categorization of people by race, this "good guy/bad guy" nonsense is a way to avoid thinking about the complexities of modern life and the changes that are actually needed to make it safe -- in other words, to protect the status quo.
