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 ...
No one forces women to take thousands of narcissistic pictures of themselves in all varieties of dress and undress. In fact it would be great if they put the damn phone down for awhile.
Ms. Paglia is occasionally on point for a liberal.
She somewhat reminds me of Christopher Hitchens.
Camille Paglia is like the on interesting feminist writer.
Not every woman is Melania Trump or Nicole Kidman.
But once upon a time, women wore nice dresses, stockings, and tasteful make-up. They were feminine and classy.
A lot of them have traded all of that in for tattoos, weird hair, piercings, and deliberately ugly clothing. It’s not good for them. It’s not good for anyone. No one really expects all women to be “hot and sexy”. But just make an effort to look presentable. Why not? This willful ugliness is out of hand.
I found this statement blood chilling:
“That there is growing discontent with overexposure in Western women’s dress is suggested by the elegant flowing drapery of Muslim-influenced designs by Dolce & Gabbana and Oscar de la Renta, among others, in recent years. “
Oh, hell no.
I wouldnt worry.
These designers make dresses, and dress styles change all the time and are cyclical. Whats in swings from less skin to more, to less again, etc.
Look at the stupid sunglasses. my grandma in the 70s wore massive owl eye sunglasses. Then they all got smaller, then smaller and narrow, and now the idiots are wearing huge massive sunglasses 40 years later, like my grandma wore.
Out here in the hinterlands of Hillbilly Heaven, huge Islam recruiting billboards are everywhere.
They compare it to Christianity and imply that Jesus was a Muslim.
8 miles from my house is a very busy halal slaughterhouse.
Craploads of Muslims have been elected or are currently running for public office.
A soft conquest is underway.
yikes.
This Thread is useless without Pictures.
Camille has no idea that HR exists to provide females jobs and pretty much shield females and work on their behalf. HR does not exist to help out the male employees.
Laugh, gasoline, torch...
Older women start screeching about the unfairness and shallowness of men chasing younger women: usually right when they age out of all that male attention.
Hint: I didn't hear a single solitary woman who was an 8 or above in looks, trashing Sarah Palin personallyk even if they disagreed with her politics.
I guess it doesn't really matter, does it? They're in all 50 states....
Pardon my French, but DAFUQ? (’bout Jesus being Muslim).
Peace?? Women’s Rights?? Seriously?!
Maybe, somebody can put up clarifying billboards setting the record straight about the dangers of Islam?
Yes, that is what will happen if a NOI zombie or Muzz catches you at it.
They’re all in very public places where anything like that would be noticed, immediately.
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