Comments on: Feral women, both ways http://www.mp285.com/2007/05/feral-women-both-ways/ wide world. in a web. Sat, 21 Feb 2009 07:47:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Feral women, our desire « Theory my culture http://www.mp285.com/2007/05/feral-women-both-ways/#comment-10 Feral women, our desire « Theory my culture Wed, 16 May 2007 21:27:32 +0000 http://mp285.com/2007/feral-women-both-ways/#comment-10 [...] women, our desire $3.60 has a fascinating bit on feral women. Why do we want them? What do they say to us about desire? Does the wildness of these particular [...] [...] women, our desire $3.60 has a fascinating bit on feral women. Why do we want them? What do they say to us about desire? Does the wildness of these particular [...]

]]> By: koreanish http://www.mp285.com/2007/05/feral-women-both-ways/#comment-9 koreanish Wed, 16 May 2007 00:40:21 +0000 http://mp285.com/2007/feral-women-both-ways/#comment-9 <p>Reading this I feel like I see something about making another category, almost a race apart, of women who don't have these inhibitions but who are then also excluded from other kinds of treatment---i.e., who are hunted until they die (Anna Nicole) or dissolve into drugs and rehab (Britney, Lindsay, Kate Moss). It's something like leaving the virgin in the volcano, actually, but the volcano is the media. But now it's the whore that gets left there, but only after she's encouraged to be that---it's as if once she takes the bait and says yes, she's hounded to death.</p> <p>They become narcissistic proxies for the entire culture, enacting what we reject and then they're crucified on public opinion once their fantasy takes over ours. When Britney danced in a school hallway in a pleated skirt, it was considered sexy. When she shaved her head, wore a wig and borrowed bikinis all weekend, she was called crazy. Reading this, I feel like she felt it was all of a piece.</p> Reading this I feel like I see something about making another category, almost a race apart, of women who don’t have these inhibitions but who are then also excluded from other kinds of treatment—i.e., who are hunted until they die (Anna Nicole) or dissolve into drugs and rehab (Britney, Lindsay, Kate Moss). It’s something like leaving the virgin in the volcano, actually, but the volcano is the media. But now it’s the whore that gets left there, but only after she’s encouraged to be that—it’s as if once she takes the bait and says yes, she’s hounded to death.

They become narcissistic proxies for the entire culture, enacting what we reject and then they’re crucified on public opinion once their fantasy takes over ours. When Britney danced in a school hallway in a pleated skirt, it was considered sexy. When she shaved her head, wore a wig and borrowed bikinis all weekend, she was called crazy. Reading this, I feel like she felt it was all of a piece.

]]>