Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Magic Mike Live
Exeunt Magazine: Channing Tatum is straddling a woman six inches in front of me and I am crying. I can’t hear myself cry, because I’m in a strip club at the Hippodrome Casino with 324 other women and everyone is screaming. This is Magic Mike Live: when sales opened last June, the box office took £1,000,000 in the first sixty minutes.
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I’m not surprised that Magic Mike Live is doing so well, both domestically and internationally. However, the idea that this show is reframing the way women see these men onstage is an interesting concept. Instead of dressing these men up in the stereotypical male stripper costumes, this show is rewriting the script, so to speak and making these men apart of a realistic fantasy. I’m somewhat in love with that idea, and I’m also disappointed that this is only happening in the male stripper world, and not the female stripper world. It feels like a step in the right direction, but not for all aspects of this form of entertainment. While I personally did not feel like the Magic Mike films were groundbreaking in the way that this article describes, it’s interesting to hear that these men are asked if they feel comfortable being vulnerable in these shows. It’s weird to think that this show is less of a strip show and more of a “corporate female empowerment summit.” I think Channing is definitely onto something with this show, because he’s playing toward the female emotional psyche, as well as the physical attractiveness of the performers.
That’s nice. This article was clearly not meant for me and I do not honestly care all that much except for the dirty capitalist part of me, because there is no money like the money made off of debauchery. However is there any value to making this somehow more wholesome? Though I fully support catering this type of choice of entertainment as much as possible to the targeted audience. I dislike how the article makes the first film seem somewhat overly artistic and special and not commercialized, it was commercialized to the highest extent. If it made strippers more human and sympathetic then it took its artistic liberty the furthest it could go, besides that it's just muscly men who make the physical form of CMU actors appear less than perfect. To me it is like branding a type of entertainment like Disney branded children’s ice shows or Ringling Bros branded the circus is the public lexicon.
Honestly to me this is just weird. It’s nice that there is the aura of wanting to dispel the atmosphere of shame around female desire. However, labeling this as female empowerment I’m not so sure about. It’s the supposedly better men that they present that really throws me. It seemed great when there were the “sexy CEOs” and other real people as opposed to the over gimmicked bodies of stereotyped fantasy firemen come to life, but a boy who actually texts you back, a man with a baby...These are not female dreams they are also stereotypes and somewhat derogatory too. It should not be a woman’s fantasy to have someone not lead them around only to ignore them and to have some real emotional connection or at least a “hey I don’t think this is going to work out” text. It is not every woman’s dream to have a baby or to have a man who cares about babies. In theory I feel like they are moving in a good direction, however, in practice I don’t think this deserves all the praise this woman is giving it. Let it be a fun time and leave it at that.
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