softcommunication replied to your photo: Had the most intense and bizarre dream last night…
And somehow explain how Lorca was sleeping with women all of a sudden.
Easily done:
1) Your question assumes that sexuality is a fixed thing. For many people it isn’t.
2) It was a dream.
Laurie Penny: Real men want to talk about sex - when are we going to start listening? - The Independent (via tanbureru)
What follows is a True Story.
In my third year undergraduate final Shakespeare exam I had to answer the following question:
“Masculinity has been made redundant since the invention of the portable aluminium step ladder. Discuss with reference to two or more plays by Shakespeare.”
I wrote about Hotspur and Hal, Coriolanus and Aufidius, Troilus and Pandarus. (Got a First.)
“That’s 6-18% of the creative vision in the world’s most powerful medium. We live in a visual culture, and what we see on screen profoundly affects the way we see ourselves and each other. Film offers us an incredible thing – an immersive trip into someone else’s universe, someone else’s vision of the world.
But if that vision is dominated by men then we are missing out on so much complexity, richness, diversity and creativity. It staggers me that we accept such a radically skewed perspective in cinema. Film after film of nearly all-male casts, with female characters as thin as their waistlines, and we barely bat an eyelid. If you do the Bechdel Test you’ll be amazed at how many films you love fail to pass. That is, they don’t have two or more named women, or if they do, those women don’t talk to each other about anything other than men, if at all. Think about it. Then watch Inception again. What you will find in the Birds Eye View programme, is a sense of balance. These films, without doubt, boast more interesting representation of women than an average night at the flicks.”
by Rachel Millward: Birds Eye View festival: And Woman created films for both sexes … | Film | guardian.co.uk
If you live in London go to Birds Eye View film festival this week. It’s not just important, it’s also fun.
According to this article, a study on women’s sexuality has revealed that heterosexual women are more likely to be sexually aroused by watching images of other naked women than men. The degree of arousal during the test also depended on the degree of sensuality displayed in the images, but no significant differentiation dependent on the gender of the actors involved was detected.
“Women’s response to images of coupling extends even to other species, Dr. Chivers found. In a 2004 experiment, and again in the recent study, published in the December 2007 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Dr. Chivers and her colleagues found women slightly but significantly aroused by footage of bonobo chimps mating. Men showed no such response.
And when Dr. Chivers asked her subjects to rate their own arousal to the videos they watched, the women, whether gay or straight, tended to give higher ratings to films showing women. “Heterosexual women are responding to women, which is counterintuitive,” Dr. Chivers said. “Why are women so turned on by watching other women?” Straight and gay men, as well as lesbians, were more predictably aroused by images of their preferred sex, Dr. Chivers found.
It is tough to know what to make of this information. Dr. Chivers makes no bold claims for it. “To conclude that women are bisexual on the basis of their sexual responding overlooks the complexity and multidimensionality of female sexuality,” she wrote in her paper. She did allow that the apparent flexibility of women “may be related to greater potential for bisexuality in women than in men.”
The film industry’s idea of a great feminist breakthrough is to applaud the tits of women over 40 as well as under it. All week, the press has gurgled about the great bodies of the Oscar-cougars: photo spreads of Pfeiffer, Bullock and Streep, above text that essentially says, both incredulously and smugly: “You’d still do ‘em, wouldn’t you?”
Even Michael Sheen, introducing the nomination of Helen Mirren for best actress, focused his speech entirely on how “hot” he finds her. He must have imagined that this demonstrated a revolutionary political correctness because she’s old enough to be his mother. No: it’s just the usual reductionist nonsense, broadened upwards.
The other “feminist celebration” of Bigelow seems to be that she beat her ex-husband James Cameron to the award. I say it’s embarrassing that she ever married him in the first place. Look at their two films. The Hurt Locker versus Dances With Smurfs.
How could that marriage ever have worked?
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“To say Bigelow makes films to fit in with the male establishment is to crudely generalise about what subjects interest women”
Good movies have no gender!
GOSPEL.
I’m doing research on religion and religious grassroots movements in the USA for my chapter on There Will Be Blood, and some of the stuff I’m reading is so utterly idiotic, offensive, and loopy that it makes the material I came across during work on 9/11 conspiracy theory documentaries look like The Complete Works of Shakespeare.
For instance, this is what Exodus International is all about:
“Are you struggling with unwanted same-sex attractions?* Maybe you have lived as a homosexual for a long time, but now are looking for a way out. You have come to the right place! For thirty years, Exodus International has offered hope and help to people seeking freedom from homosexuality*. We believe and we have seen in thousands of lives that this freedom is possible through the power of God working in our hearts and minds.
The bottom line - you don’t have to be gay**! You can lead a life of fulfillment and holiness as God intended, a life far better than what you have experienced so far.”
*my bold - as in, “WTF???”
**their bold - as in, “FUCK YEAH, you DON’T HAVE TO!”
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