tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43839486612303446.post8413494050704894918..comments2023-09-04T10:02:41.159-04:00Comments on Fallen Princess: Even Blind Men Prefer Pamela AndersonChristina Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16296922191172373486noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43839486612303446.post-90755003020560269742010-05-06T10:01:17.573-04:002010-05-06T10:01:17.573-04:00I definitely would not get into that with a 7-year...I definitely would not get into that with a 7-year-old!Christina Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16296922191172373486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43839486612303446.post-61879710837093949492010-05-06T09:54:41.803-04:002010-05-06T09:54:41.803-04:00I do agree, I think. Separating sexiness from age ...I do agree, I think. Separating sexiness from age is where I'm trying to go, though. And I think your point is that bikinis aren't sexual signifiers, or maybe shouldn't be. <br /><br />Now I get it! It's just that appearance shouldn't be about sexiness. But the male gaze (love that phrase) makes it so. How do you teach a kid about the difference between reality as it should be and reality under the distorted lens of the male gaze without harshing her buzz?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14065104384286114607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43839486612303446.post-17323006186085249502010-05-06T09:01:43.232-04:002010-05-06T09:01:43.232-04:00Interesting. Thanks for posting.
Your premise ass...Interesting. Thanks for posting.<br /><br />Your premise assumes that you have to look like a young girl who hasn't had babies to wear a bikini. I don't necessarily believe that, although I don't chose to wear one myself. If someone always wants to wear a bikini, like a lot of the 60 something European women I saw on the beach in Miami, than that's fine with me.Christina Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16296922191172373486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43839486612303446.post-27783173306152104772010-05-05T09:40:23.216-04:002010-05-05T09:40:23.216-04:00The idea that bikinis are for young girls who have...The idea that bikinis are for young girls who haven't had babies is intriguing, and worth debating. Much of our distress about image is due to aspiring to look adolescent for longer and longer stretches of our lives. <br /><br />I was wondering why the idea seemed negative to you. Our culture instructs us to expect to be sexually alluring into our senescence, but common sense tells me that it might be the root of our unshakable anxieties. <br /><br />Personally, I would like to confine the whole culture of sexiness and the look and feel of it to the appropriate times of our lives, so that we could enjoy the other parts of our lives a lot more; without trying to live up to unrealistic ideals about permanent youth and viagra-popping fake sexuality. Why shouldn't we take the cues our declining metabolisms provide and allow ourselves to relax slowly out of relentless sexiness?<br /><br />So I would have thought it was a healthy thing to say to my daughter. Who knows what damage I could do unless you help me see the error of my ways!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14065104384286114607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43839486612303446.post-65854823478817909322010-04-26T13:56:50.889-04:002010-04-26T13:56:50.889-04:00Normally, I'm totally with you on wondering wh...Normally, I'm totally with you on wondering why such specific triggering detail is published in The New York Times. This 0.7 waist-hip ratio thing, though, happens to have made me feel good for a change. I'm a large woman (usually wear a size 12), and I whipped out a tape measure and was delighted to find out that some aspect of my body is "ideal" to a random sampling somewhere. Blind dudes, call me!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com