― st (simon_tr), Friday, 25 April 2003 02:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― st (simon_tr), Friday, 25 April 2003 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 25 April 2003 02:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 25 April 2003 02:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― st (simon_tr), Friday, 25 April 2003 02:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― st (simon_tr), Friday, 25 April 2003 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)
(sorry)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― gaz (gaz), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― st (simon_tr), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:08 (twenty-two years ago)
― st (simon_tr), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― st (simon_tr), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― st (simon_tr), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― st (simon_tr), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)
i mean, it's not like were hating her or beating her or whatever.
on objectification, i'll buy the theory that ultimately porn does suck. it creates laziness. it creates unreal expectations both about body image and sex as an act. but damn, do we have to turn off our appetite entirely?
is it ok to see a person who we feel is attractive and express that feeling?
sex, drugs, and rock and roll... ("it's over.")m.
― msp, Friday, 25 April 2003 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― st (simon_tr), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― st (simon_tr), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― s trife (simon_tr), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― bnw (bnw), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― bnw (bnw), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)
#2. "on objectification, i'll buy the theory that ultimately porn does suck. it creates laziness. it creates unreal expectations both about body image and sex as an act. but damn, do we have to turn off our appetite entirely?"
Frankly, if some women wait until marriage for sex, and the rest require a serious relationship, the other guys need some form of release. As Tom Leykis says (and I dont quote this man often), ejaculation is like urination.
― David Allen, Friday, 25 April 2003 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 25 April 2003 03:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:05 (twenty-two years ago)
I dunno, Sterling, you said that before so I've looked at them a few times -- they were surprisingly okay, way above my expectations, but I'm not sure about "great."
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:13 (twenty-two years ago)
I find it hard to judge magazines on this sort of thing, because when it's just front-of-book capsule reviews it's less "criticism" and more actual "tastemaking," which is a sort of different game. Have you ever read the Entertainment Weekly expanded music section thing?
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:13 (twenty-two years ago)
I'm still not sure how to feel about pornography and the objectification of women. The women ARE being paid...
― David Allen, Friday, 25 April 2003 04:15 (twenty-two years ago)
Certainly not a critcism in any way, nabisco, just saying their editors might circumscribe the writers a bit.
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)
I've never read EW, what are they like?
(for that matter, what are Playboy's reviews like? icky i imagine, not in a sex way, but in a sort of culture-vulture but not-getting it one?)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 25 April 2003 04:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 25 April 2003 11:22 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.abc.net.au/newengland/stories/m389460.jpg
― kate, Friday, 25 April 2003 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― kate, Friday, 25 April 2003 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― Madonna (mlescaut), Friday, 25 April 2003 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 25 April 2003 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― original bgm, Friday, 25 April 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)
oh and btw, the Neko Case pic comes from a shoot she already did for one of those indie pin-up mags. Go check it out duuudes!! Tits!! For real!!
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 25 April 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)
Liking to look at nekkid women = creep.
Thanks for that, I'd forgotten how creepy I was.
P.S. My 'dead average' taste in women is the male norm, live with it.
― Calum, Friday, 25 April 2003 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 25 April 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kerry (dymaxia), Friday, 25 April 2003 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)
You could view the Playboy indie chick thing as sexist - it's bascially saying that they CAN and WILL purchase the female of your choice to show her tits and ass and, in doing so, she will be able to forward her career. Not through her music mind, but by what's underneath. Yeah, this can be seen as sexist, but then so can any star in the music industry today - Westlife sell sex to a young audience, albeit cushy and un-threatening and safe. Take That were there to help the girls through puberty. All of this focuses on appearance and the music industry will always sell this. Is this sexism? I'm not sure. Playboy's poll is no more or less sexist than your average Robbie Williams video though.
Misogyny, on the other hand, is the express hatred of women. Cute, sexy, tasteful pictures of undressed females is not misogyny. All porn is not misogyny (and how sad to see some people her believing it is). Misogyny is the 70s/ early 80s 'roughie' films, misogyny is 'The New York Ripper' and Japanese torture movies, misogyny is Max Hardcore, misogyny is Eminem and various rap music stars (Snoop Doog for one). That's misogyny.
Seperate sexism from misogyny please. They are not interchangable.
― Calum, Friday, 25 April 2003 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)
But thanks to C's presence this thread is basically over, since he can type a lot but he's completely unable to read, and thus completely unable to separate complaints about a culture of objectification from all of these people he imagines are telling him that finding women attractive is a sin. This weird schizophrenia -- arguing with things people never actually said -- is on complete factual display on this thread, where he waltzes in to tell everyone they're misusing the terms "sexism" and "misogyny": do a little word search, Calum, and you'll note that you're the only person to have used either of those words so far!
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)
Just because something *is* that way does not mean that that is the way that it *should* be. Your logic is flawed from the very start. Normal != fair.
― kate, Friday, 25 April 2003 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kerry (dymaxia), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)
dk r0x etc.
― ron (ron), Friday, 25 April 2003 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 25 April 2003 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)
You are very bitter, your posts indicate that you seem insecure in yourself (I'm not criticising this) and angry at those you perceive to be more attractive, sexier, more successful etc etc I feel quite sorry for you. You are the girl in the night club hiding away in the corner.
I never said 'it happens all the time girls are clearly okay with it' I simply stated that some women enjoy being presented as sexy and attractive, and why not? I'd be flattered if someone chose to present me in this manner.
My ex-girlfriend had no problem with Playboy, but she was quite offended by the openness of my ex-flatmate who would openly show her dildo around and speak about shagging. She was also quite taken aback by an old mate of mine who had bedded a lot of men, and indicated a desire to shag as many blokes as possible. Me personally - none of these offend me, it's up to the individual. But by your reckoning Kate, the only type of feminism is the anti-porn, all women are subject to male oppression type of cack that has been outdated for years. Grow up.
― Calum, Friday, 25 April 2003 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kerry (dymaxia), Friday, 25 April 2003 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 25 April 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)
P.S. I'm sure Kate is alright, she just has opinions that niggle at me, but that's what make us human, I was probably out of order in what I said.
― Calum, Friday, 25 April 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― Leanne (Lurker), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)
is everyone too freaked out of looking like an indie square to mention the creepiness of the "we WILL get them" tone of this thing?? yeah yeah indie-alternaland in "just as sexist and backward as everywhere else etc zzzzz" SHOCKAH but the forbidden-fruit aspect of this really does come from playboyINC's understanding of indierock as at least a SYMBOLIC safe-zone from objectification=record-sales pressures. Sure the work that's been done to make that even half-true has been chipped away at for years and wasn't always guided by the greatest of impulses in the first place but a there's a sort Last Frontier co-optation powerplay at work here that's just totally discouraging for anyone who saw any promise in that work to begin with. AM I BEING TOO CORNY?? Fuck is it ever appalling.
(the worst part is i'm now waiting for someone to saunter in and hand me the music-in-a-car-ad chestnut about how GREAT it will be for the winner since the indie scene isn't earning them a living TOM DELETE THE UNIVERSE NOW PLEASE)
― jones (actual), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)
I thought punk/indie porn was pretty much a fact of life now.
― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)
also sterling otm
i don't know which is more of a drag: that ronan probably means me, or that he's probably right
― jones (actual), Friday, 25 April 2003 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― Carat Semen Urn, Friday, 25 April 2003 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)
(bye)
― jones (actual), Friday, 25 April 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 25 April 2003 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)
Best username evah!
― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 26 April 2003 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)
(# of wrongheaded twats on this side of the argument = 4 or 5? match: trife)
― jones (actual), Saturday, 26 April 2003 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― minna (minna), Saturday, 26 April 2003 02:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 26 April 2003 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 26 April 2003 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― minna (minna), Saturday, 26 April 2003 05:49 (twenty-two years ago)
It's strange that we can even have a conversation about this - doesn't it seem like it should be a kind of logical impossibility? I'm really embarrassed.
― bedroom, Saturday, 26 April 2003 06:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ernest P. (ernestp), Saturday, 26 April 2003 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)
Just popped by to say this makes no sense.
Toodle pip, must dash now. See you soon.
― Calum, Saturday, 26 April 2003 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 27 April 2003 04:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 27 April 2003 04:46 (twenty-two years ago)
image posts almost completely absent from this thread. weird. A+ trolling throughout tho.
― gershy, Friday, 8 February 2008 08:07 (seventeen years ago)
will take #1 and #3
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 8 February 2008 08:08 (seventeen years ago)
"Christ said, I tell you that anyone who looks on an indie chick with lust has in his heart already committed adultery. I've looked on a lot of indie chicks with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times."
http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/history/faculty/TROYWEB/Courseweb/Carter%20Playboy%20Interview.JPG
― gershy, Friday, 8 February 2008 08:13 (seventeen years ago)