Saturday, December 19, 2009
From ‘Vibrator’ to ‘Cougar Town,’ Sex Is Still a Man’s World
NYTimes.com: "To a 21st-century audience, bombarded 24/7 with graphic sexual images and language, such prim naïveté is hard to imagine. American culture so openly embraces sexuality that you practically expect souvenir vibrators to be sold in the lobby of the Lyceum Theater, just as umbrellas with parrot heads are for sale nearby at “Mary Poppins.”"
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The 19th Century is really the farthest back point in history that many modern people can actually relate to. It's a period that either laid the seeds for many, if not all of what we consider modern, or it's the point in history where technology went from being easily explained to the high tech. While the modern world has this obsession with sexuality, the 19th Century has the exact opposite, which given the large number of similarities between the 19th and 21st, could really draw in mass appeal for the show.
I have some mixed feelings about the information in this article. First I am so disgusted that there is now basically vaginal cosmetic surgery being done. That just blows my mind. It's just totally insane, and I can't believe some women are actually considering this!!
The other end is that I watch a lot of the television shows/movies that were mentioned as being created around men's ideals/desires of women, and I RELATE to those women. And I don't think in a bad way. I'm not going about my life trying be the same way, but I'll watch an episode/movie and end up feeling that I should be writing a story on my life....and earning a ton of money with it because I'm going through equally crazy stuff. And yet I lead my life for me, not to impress any guy or to be some "perfect woman" so I end up not having a problem with this. My only complaint is that there aren't more women working in the industry, or maybe that I'm not one of them. I could see myself relishing that environment though.
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