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Camille Paglia: The Rise of "Strangely Unsexy" Instagram Exhibitionism — And Why It Hurts Women
Hollywood Reporter ^ | 10/05/2018 | Camille Paglia

Posted on 10/05/2018 7:52:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Instagram has grown into a global obsession, used by more than twice as many women as men. Mating has morphed into a digital mirage, dizzyingly multiplied on Snapchat and Tinder. Instagram's tweaked, filtered photos and videos are both boon and curse, sharpening self-definition yet intensifying social anxieties and risking physical safety via hypersexualized self-advertisement and fantasy.

The sexual revolution sought and won by my 1960s generation envisioned women as responsible, mature free agents, equal to men. We certainly did not foresee that "booty pics," reducing women to their buttocks like Stone Age fertility totems, would become a wildly addictive genre of Instagram self-portraiture.

Ironically, sexed-up online exhibitionism has escalated as Hollywood movies have steadily lost their once world-famous genius for portraying romantic passion. Nuanced character drama has faded in an era of fast-action video games and superhero blockbusters. A-list women actors with skinny, Pilates-toned bodies seek "important" roles, not bittersweet stories exploring the mercurial vulnerability of love....

Given our rising concern about sexual harassment, it's time for a major rethink and recalibration of women's self-presentation on social media as well as in the workplace. The line between the public and private realms must be redrawn. Be yourself on your own time. The workplace should be a gender-neutral zone. It is neither a playground for male predators nor a fashion runway for women. Men may sometimes read literally what women often mean only symbolically. But complaining to and weaponizing a paternalistic Human Resources bureaucracy is not the path to women's true liberation.

The current surplus of exposed flesh in the public realm has led to a devaluation of women and, paradoxically, to sexual ennui. A sense of appropriateness and social context has been lost, as with Ariana Grande wearing a sleeveless minidress with bared thighs to perform from the pulpit...

(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...


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KEYWORDS: instagram
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To: Salamander

Frightening! :-(


21 posted on 10/05/2018 9:35:43 PM PDT by nutmeg
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To: nutmeg

Yeah, seriously.


22 posted on 10/05/2018 10:00:29 PM PDT by Salamander (My Soul's On Fire... [I miss you, Shibumi])
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To: grey_whiskers

It’s probably in there right next to the part about Women’s Rights.


23 posted on 10/05/2018 10:01:07 PM PDT by Salamander (My Soul's On Fire... [I miss you, Shibumi])
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To: BenLurkin
They do but they don't last long.

"Enlightened" COEXIST types complain.

You'll love the irony of this one.


24 posted on 10/05/2018 10:05:29 PM PDT by Salamander (My Soul's On Fire... [I miss you, Shibumi])
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To: nutmeg

Terribly so.


25 posted on 10/05/2018 10:06:05 PM PDT by Salamander (My Soul's On Fire... [I miss you, Shibumi])
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To: BenLurkin

You got the “unintended consequences” of stupidity.


26 posted on 10/05/2018 10:12:42 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: BenLurkin
paternalistic Human Resources bureaucracy

Paternalistic? Not for decades.

Human Resources was the first department taken over by feminists.

27 posted on 10/05/2018 10:20:32 PM PDT by donna (Corporations are using censorship to destroy President Trump and achieve Globalism.)
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To: BenLurkin

As a pundit noted, all the girls’ faces on Instagram smell like penis.

Where are the looks of true artistic and genuine meaning, such as joy, melancholy, anger, malice, curiosity etc. That adorned the pictures of models in paintings or early photography?


28 posted on 10/05/2018 10:32:27 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: EEGator

you must have skipped the last paragraphs

“That there is growing discontent with overexposure in Western women’s dress is suggested by the elegant flowing drapery of Muslim-influenced designs....Gloria Swanson through a lavishly embroidered black veil.”


29 posted on 10/05/2018 11:07:41 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: BenLurkin

bookmark


30 posted on 10/06/2018 1:52:14 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: BenLurkin
I remember reading some years ago, think it was a story in the New York Post that claimed 22% of the people who view pornography were women.
31 posted on 10/06/2018 2:18:45 AM PDT by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: BenLurkin

Sorry Camille. You and your feminist pals let this monster loose. You are crying over spilt milk.


32 posted on 10/06/2018 3:13:58 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: BenLurkin

I’m sick of big asses. I blame MTV and the popularity of rap.


33 posted on 10/06/2018 4:08:22 AM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: Salamander

The names of the companies who own the billboards are often printed on the billboard itself. In any event they are a matter of public record.

Since it is difficult to get up onto the large ones with a can of paint and roller, a midnight visit directly the companies’ windows might be a lot easier.

Not that I’m suggesting doing such a thing.


34 posted on 10/06/2018 6:57:15 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

One assumes that males find “sexy” what Ms. Paglia does not.


35 posted on 10/06/2018 11:15:38 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Kindness and truth shall meet." Ps. 85:10)
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