Posts by kmont
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Do you really panic about the idea of little girls using the word sexy Jackie? I think it would be good to cut down on the sexualised images that children get exposed to especially on music videos and the images that they recieve about body image need to be balanced out for sure.
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Definitely relevant Che, that was my point about society's attitude toward "the whore" being a barometer of sorts.
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When I backed up Heather's cautious optimisim I don't mean to say that there is not a lot to be done. I am very grateful that daleaway, anjum and Deborah can spare the energy to list all the areas that still need work. Hell, sometimes a bit of anger is in order.
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It's kicking off in the best possible way on this thread isn't it.
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I love Meatbix. I am practically a bandaid.
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Heather that was very thoughtful, I also hate the tabloid alarmism.
Don't give a shit that some Aussie politician went to a strip club 4 and half years ago.Society's pendulum swing - we're still trying to find that equilibrium between allowing people of all genders to express themselves as sexual beings, while extending gender equivalence to all the other areas that have previously discriminated.
I think so too.
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Yeah exactly Russell, I had the feeling that the strippers (in the rock gig) would have preffered good old fashioned punters rather than ironic art school students who standing around watching them coldly. Irony, bah.
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Well money/power/sex are quite the combination, always have been, always will be.
So titillating, so distracting from other high minded pursuits......
So tediously likely to take up huge chunks of media attention for vast amounts of time.There needs to be more variety in the images of women that little girls and boys see on the music channel. Fo sure.
I think women's bodies and the expert moving of a woman's body is a beautiful thing. It's not surprising that people are not sick of watching and are never likely to be. This will never have a tidy answer as there are people inside these bodies. Was I completely comfortable the time I attended a shock rock gig complete with strippers? Not completely. There were lots of young hipsters of both genders trying to look unconcerned. "It's ironic" was the expected attitude, which it was on some level, but when you go to Thailand or other places and see other faces of this industry it opens your eyes. I guess what I am saying, if anything at all, is that I can understand the full range of opinions on the subject. A person who thinks that strippers are completely about objectifying woman and reinforcing power structures right through to those who think that a woman has the right to do whatever she damn well pleases with her body. The way that society views "the whore" is a major indicator of the state of affairs of women in general, some kind of barometer of how far we have come or not come. So when I have been up close and personal with that side of life, irony has not been my prefered mode of engagement.
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Meh.
I like my humor Black Books style.
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eh?
Aussies funny??????
But on a happy joy joy note, I like posting here.
I like it when people wade in delicately, I like it when people are pugnacious. It really is all good when it feels like a conversation. Favourite phrase of the week;
"screeching to the converted"