Queer Theory & Futurism

[rich]

On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 9:45 PM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com
> wrote:

> The lament for the paved paradise, for the chances for spontaneous
> fortune wheels of fogs turning and turning as seasons and painted
> ponies now slouching toward Nixonland to be borne on the backs of
> laborers betrayed by their brethren, P's dirge is muted by the
> cacophony of the sex wars and race wars and wars wars wars. Then and
> Eye for and I. And a Me. And a Mine. No one frightened of playing it.
> The wheel of fortune turned by a lady on the Tube. Meet the New Boss!
> A New Kind of Feminism is Born!
>
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what herb doth thoust inspire such prattle, my ladyship, Tis the grip
again?

>
> 'Female Chauvinist Pigs': Girls Gone Wild
>
> Our popular culture, she argues, has embraced a model of female
> sexuality that comes straight from pornography and strip clubs, in
> which the woman's job is to excite and titillate - to perform for men.
> According to Levy, women have bought into this by altering their
> bodies surgically and cosmetically, and - more insidiously - by
> confusing sexual power with power, so that embracing this caricaturish
> form of sexuality becomes, in their minds, a perverse kind of
> feminism.
>
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sexuality is all about performance, many people like to perform, that's all

she probably meant to say straight pornography (what is straight pornography
anyway?)  models female sexuality (does that mean gay pornography (and what
really is gay pornography?) models male or female sexuality (based on who's
watching, of course) (and really what is male sexuality, female sexuality?)

rich


>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/books/review/18egan.html
>
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