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I think many folks seek refuge in buying and wanking porn during the crunchAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-69494817363304571612008-03-23T08:20:00.000+01:002008-03-23T08:20:00.000+01:00:-):-)beatroothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11242716221133886807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-75764421844707549472008-03-22T22:01:00.000+01:002008-03-22T22:01:00.000+01:00The Papaya craze has made its way to the US. Look...The Papaya craze has made its way to the US. Look at Yahoo and ABC News. Neither mentions Urszula, though.<BR/><BR/>Problems with Mass?<BR/><BR/>At Eastertime?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-23129293342532488052008-03-22T20:00:00.000+01:002008-03-22T20:00:00.000+01:00To bring it up to today: look at hip-hop. Now the ...To bring it up to today: look at hip-hop. Now the sartorial bling that that goes along with rappers - the jewelry, the massive SUVs, the constant referencing in the lyrics about expensive brandies etc....that is an interesting relationship between mass culture and ethnic blah blah. <BR/><BR/>I think that mass culture - and all the many different ways it can be used, is a good thing and nothing to be scared of. The problem is, the intellectuals and liberal middle classes have a problem with 'mass' in general, these days. It was the same in Orwell's day. Bless him but he did go on about tinned food being the end of civilization as we know it. <BR/><BR/>It wasn't George...it's the same with Super Size Me....et al...beatroothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11242716221133886807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-19118811513810355572008-03-22T19:58:00.000+01:002008-03-22T19:58:00.000+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.beatroothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11242716221133886807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-25395890214619127832008-03-22T10:57:00.000+01:002008-03-22T10:57:00.000+01:00A matter of "refashioning" commercialism to meet t...A matter of "refashioning" commercialism to meet their own needs...<BR/><BR/>Again, way back when, I read an incredibly insightful book by historian Lizabeth Cohen. Now the internet even has notes on such books (I'm amazed and a bit freaked coz I recall how I used to spend hours and hours prodigiously taking notes on the books I read).<BR/><BR/>The book: Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939.<BR/><BR/>Here's a bit from it and it feeds into the overall discussion here:<BR/><BR/>"In 1919, Chicago's workers relied upon their ethnic neighborhoods for both entertainment and sustenance - they read ethnic-language newspapers, shopped at the corner store, and, when hard times befell them, went to small ethnic-owned banks, neighborhood mutual benefit societies, or possibly the Catholic Church for aid. And at first, the rise of consumerism and mass culture served to strengthen these ethnic ties. Workers listened to Old World music on their radios and phonographs, saw films at small theaters in their own neighborhoods, and obtained credit from their local grocer. In sum, <B>"whether they were were ethnic workers who eased into mass culture through the local store, neighborhood theater, and ethnic radio program or black and young workers who refashioned commercialism to their own needs," Cohen notes (against the standard interpretation of an all-homogenizing consumerism), "mass culture would not make them feel any less Polish, Jewish, or black or any less of a worker." </B><BR/><BR/>It is interesting to note in passing the unique position of black workers to the encroachment of mass culture. "Because assimilation into the mainstream was possible for white ethics," writes Cohen, "they used mass culture to stave it off by keeping their own culture alive. Ethnic records, like stores, theaters, and radio programs, set out to reinforce traditional culture in the face of threatening alternatives. Racial discrimination, on the other hand, kept blacks from the same opportunities, and pressures, to assimilate. Given that very different context, black jazz recordings, or black employment in chain stores, became a vehicle for making a claim on mainstream society that racism had otherwise denied. Mass culture, which offered ethnics a conservative retreat, became in the hands of blacks a way of turning blacks' vulnerability and dependence on mainstream society into a demand for respect." (156) Cohen returns to this intriguing relationship between consumerism and civil rights in her second book, A Consumers' Republic.<BR/><BR/> <A HREF="http://www.kevincmurphy.com/cohen.html/" REL="nofollow">READING NOTES HERE</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-27795105905326421902008-03-22T09:22:00.000+01:002008-03-22T09:22:00.000+01:00My favorite Hsu story was of watching a Hollywood ...My favorite Hsu story was of watching a Hollywood movie in China in the 40's and how Chinese people could interpret the story completely differently than the moviemakers intended.<BR/><BR/>It's even online at:<BR/><BR/>http://servercc.oakton.edu/~billtong/chinaclass/hsu.htmmichael farrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10232229721381140090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-52375098865219502522008-03-22T00:14:00.000+01:002008-03-22T00:14:00.000+01:00I actually had the Hsu book (still have it) as req...I actually had the Hsu book (still have it) as required reading for a Chinese history course waaaay back when.<BR/><BR/>But I dunno if his explanation is altogether correct. Certainly there was a lot of inertia in a tradition bound Confucian society. But there were for sure other underpinnings that kept the practice static. A combination of liking women who waddle just so and that making 'em dependent and subservient.<BR/><BR/>And I remember for a short time back in the late sixties that guys wore pointy shoes, too. At least the N'orks did (New Yorkers -- hoods -- fancy shirts and high collars, black leather jackets-- antithesis of hippie clothes). Those shoes had some kinda nickname about killing some kinda bugs in corners but I can't recall.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-77738112959360737782008-03-21T23:39:00.000+01:002008-03-21T23:39:00.000+01:00winklepickerswinklepickersbeatroothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11242716221133886807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-51050364767513400132008-03-21T23:36:00.000+01:002008-03-21T23:36:00.000+01:00Also notice the extreme toe point of "lotus shoes"...Also notice the extreme toe point of "lotus shoes" and the extreme points of womens shoes in recent years ... what's _that_ about????michael farrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10232229721381140090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-44007291605424663262008-03-21T23:34:00.000+01:002008-03-21T23:34:00.000+01:00According to the anthropologist Francis LK Hsu (au...According to the anthropologist Francis LK Hsu (author of chinese and americans, among other cool books) the persistence of foot binding was more cultural inertia than anything else. There's actually a fair amount of evidence that many people didn't like the look of bound feet (clad or not) but that people continued to do it because ... they always had.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, when I saw a documentary on the last remaining women (now all elderly) with bound feet I was struck at the similarity between the side profile of the foot and high heels.michael farrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10232229721381140090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-37324238057775057122008-03-21T22:50:00.000+01:002008-03-21T22:50:00.000+01:00Maybe it started as an aesthetic in China -- but w...Maybe it started as an aesthetic in China -- but was it continued as such or did it become more so another means of making women even more dependent upon and subservient to men?<BR/><BR/>In any event, it was only a practice among the upper classes. Peasant women needed working feet so theirs were never bound.<BR/><BR/>According to the wiki article, "the erotic effect was a function of the lotus gait, the tiny steps and swaying walk of a woman whose feet had been bound makes the men think that the women are sexy. The very fact that the bound foot was concealed from men's eyes was, in and of itself, sexually suggestive."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-7452605795122208612008-03-21T21:29:00.000+01:002008-03-21T21:29:00.000+01:00One more thing about the sexual signalling of high...One more thing about the sexual signalling of high heels.<BR/><BR/>A similar aesthetic was probably responsible for foot binding in China<BR/><BR/>http://presurfer.blogspot.com/2007/05/chinese-foot-binding.html<BR/><BR/>Apparently these 'lotus feet' were perceived as being extremely erotic by Chinese men (while they were in their lotus shoes the actual naked bound foot was a major turn off.michael farrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10232229721381140090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-23454801755099095312008-03-21T18:19:00.000+01:002008-03-21T18:19:00.000+01:00In the intertextual or intersexual sense?In any ev...In the intertextual or intersexual sense?<BR/><BR/>In any event, consider Umberto Eco's definition of semiotics built upon our capacity to represent the world in any way we desire through signs, even in misleading and deceitful ways.<BR/><BR/>I stole that stuff from somewhere off some webpage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-18259196836401758092008-03-21T18:05:00.000+01:002008-03-21T18:05:00.000+01:00I'm talkin semiotics. :-)I'm talkin semiotics. <BR/><BR/>:-)beatroothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11242716221133886807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-67827558126906011362008-03-21T17:54:00.000+01:002008-03-21T17:54:00.000+01:00People in poverty still spend money on things they...People in poverty still spend money on things they are led to believe they need but don't and actually contribute to keeping them impoverished. And I recall seeing more than a few fuck me heels of all varieties being worn on the streets in cities in Communist Poland, prolly even more so than in the US. Liberation from poverty just doesn't have all that much to do with fashion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-68509724290945105572008-03-21T17:00:00.000+01:002008-03-21T17:00:00.000+01:00Blimey! Is this the reason for heel fetish? Never ...Blimey! Is this the reason for heel fetish? Never thought about this...until now...<BR/><BR/>White boots, to go back to the other point, are a sign of surplus in the economy and real people's living standards improving. I know the western middle class have become so degenerate that they forget these things, but material basis of society is vital to developing countries such as this one. And being freed from poverty is a liberation. A great liberation. <BR/><BR/>I drink to white boots and their fetish connotations! Salute and happy easter!beatroothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11242716221133886807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-41234300429625593522008-03-21T16:21:00.000+01:002008-03-21T16:21:00.000+01:00Gee, and I thought it was because they thrust the ...Gee, and I thought it was because they thrust the pelvic area forward (in addition to tightening the asscheeks).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-9650388802259224012008-03-21T14:48:00.000+01:002008-03-21T14:48:00.000+01:00Don't they teach people anything in school anymore...Don't they teach people anything in school anymore?<BR/><BR/>"Extreme high heels can be an object of sexual desire in themselves. They change the posture of the wearer and lengthen the legs, emphasising the calf muscles. ... Feet point during orgasm, and high heels mimic this .... the entire body is restricted in such high heels, meaning that the wearer can be considered to be in the power of her partner, as running away is impossible."<BR/><BR/>www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A3724977<BR/><BR/>or:<BR/><BR/>"Stilettos require constant balance from the upper leg, causing the muscles of the backside to tense and appear pert and ready for mating" from the movie 'Kinky boots'.michael farrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10232229721381140090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-16906580129486488082008-03-21T14:47:00.000+01:002008-03-21T14:47:00.000+01:00Oh, so liberation boils down to having enough mone...Oh, so liberation boils down to having enough money to piss it away on crappy fashion even though the money could be better and more responsibly spent.<BR/><BR/>Liberation entails values transcending those that are merely monentary (and momentary).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-52894005109444978582008-03-21T12:43:00.000+01:002008-03-21T12:43:00.000+01:00High heels create a look that mimics sexual excite...<I>High heels create a look that mimics sexual excitement in females </I><BR/><BR/>Now you completly lost me....????<BR/><BR/>And 'fuck me pumps' is the correct expression. <BR/><BR/>And Geez, 'liberation' means that they have greater disposal income, a prerequisite to liberation of all kinds...beatroothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11242716221133886807noreply@blogger.com