Posted on 10/06/2018 10:48:58 AM PDT by simpson96
Welcome to the flesh parade!(snip)
Since it was launched eight years ago, 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.(snip)
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.(snip)
No American movie in decades has approached the blazing sizzle, conveyed simply by eye contact, of the first encounter of Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) and Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) on the grand staircase of Gone With the Wind (1939). Electrifying onscreen energy was once generated by stark sexual polarization — old-fashioned gender differences, rooted in biology.(snip)
Here's a short list of incandescent star couplings whose heat is now rarely duplicated by Hollywood, even in its monotonous remakes: Anthony Quinn and Rita Hayworth in Blood and Sand (1941); Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not (1944); John Garfield and Lana Turner in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946); Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal in The Fountainhead (1949); Laurence Harvey and Elizabeth Taylor in Butterfield 8 (1960); Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway in The Thomas Crown Affair (1968); Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were (1973); and Michael Douglas and Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction (1987).
It's telling that most of these heady erotic effects were produced onscreen with virtually no nudity,
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You see the same push towards unromantic sexual hedonism in the genital hats and costumes that supposed feminists are using these days.
Once, feminists protested against being seen as sex objects. They vilified the culture where women tried to be pretty and men were chivalrous. They have supplanted that culture with one where the only quality that one should notice about women is that they are raw sexual creatures—no beauty, no romance, just the raw basal desires. In this climate, it is no wonder that Hollywood highlights the vulgar and omits romance.
Kate Timpf on the Greg Gutfield Show last Sunday addressed this. Said about 80% of instagram was people’s asses.
Female ass in yoga pants.
Gutfeld is great btw...
Great comment.
[[Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were]]
just had to go and make me throw up in my mouth huh?
Fwiw, almost all she compares to were created in a time before effective drugs for STDs, birth control and easy divorce, and by people who were raised in the mindset of that time before.
In that time, many of the things that controlled their behavior were absolute truths with unpardonable consequences for violation, first by/from nature, then from society.
They politely behaved accordingly or else, and there were always a few “or else” cases around to remind the forgetful.
We’ve tamed those past controls and don’t have to be polite anymore. We can do whatever we want without consequence nowadays, but to all things a season.
She’s just noticing how some of the leaves have been changing for this one, because, global warming be damned, winter’s coming.
Well, if you only like actors who you agree with politically, then you probably would not like this movie. And yet it is very good at showing two people from wildly different cultures connecting sexually and emotionally. I’m amused at her mentioning The Fountainhead which is an amazingly weird movie but certainly generates heat between Cooper and Neal (who had an affair in real life).
I can’t wait for Camille’s take on the Kavanaugh hearing. I suspect she’ll be appalled at the spectacle but still manage to take apart poor Kav at the same time.
In her dotage, it appears Paglia’s finally beginning to grapple with how profoundly unwise her lifelong celebration of pornography has been. She can’t quite bring herself to renounce her long held position, but in this column for the first time she seems to recognize how dehumanizing, demeaning and boringly superficial pornography is.
Obviously, pornography is not about real people. It’s about uni-dimensional fantasies which block real people from doing the difficult work of knowing their sexual partner in a meaningful, multi-dimensional way.
And...
Women have, and still, treat men as Success Objects - regardless of their own status and income.
Both are carnal attitudes.
More terrifying is the “it is unfair for you to refuse sexual advances” movement.
That you’re bad if you’re not sexually attracted to someone who is officially oppressed, you’re not allowed to say no.
The articles coming out that heterosexual guys should have sex with their heterosexual friends, prove you’re not homophobic.
Or the bullying of lesbians who don’t want to have sex with “transgenders”, the majority of whom are men who haven’t had the surgery (75%+). So lesbians are getting named, shamed and abused for not wanting to have sex with crazy, biologically intact men.
The other aspect is shaming people for not wanting to have sex with the ugly, the fat, the jobless. You’re a bad meanie if you won’t share ... your body.
[[Well, if you only like actors who you agree with politically, then you probably would not like this movie.]]
Actors and actresses don’t have to agree with me totally for me to watch them- however, there are some actors and actresses that quite frankly are not worth watching because they are so rabidly left and vocal politically, supporting extremist leftist policies that are destroying this country that they make supporting them by watching their movies not worth it to me
There are loads more movies by actors and actresses that don’t feel the need to be so activist that are worth watching- I’ll skip this one-
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