Sex and Violence

This is my sickest season in years. It's been one cold after another. I just caught the cold f00's been suffering with for the past week. My throat feels like it's being lightly scraped with a cheese grater, my head feels like I'm balancing cinder blocks on it, and when I breathe through my nose it sounds like I'm snorkeling in mayonnaise. Ok, so maybe that last bit is an exaggeration, but the rest holds firm.

f00 and I celebrated our recent crop of good luck by going to see Blade III. I thought it was a whole lot of pretty-looking nothing, but f00 thought it was fun. I only liked two parts of the film, and one of them was the insult "Cock-juggling thunder cunt." I think this may be the first time I've heard the word "cunt" bandied about with such frequency in a major action film. Now, I'm just waiting to hear "bukkake" and "Japscat" make the mainstream.

My last dance classes of the year are this weekend. I'm hoping for a decent turnout, but not counting on it. A lot of people have big holiday plans, and that cuts my already meagre attendance back.

Do you know anything about somatics? I'd like to study in this area, but fear I'd be walking a thin line. I'm afraid the field is rife with quackery although I think the underlying concepts are sound.

And now onto something completely different. I don't remember how I found it, but I stumbled across Misogyny in the Movies the other day. I find the page particularly curious in that it appears to be approaching misogyny in a misogynistic fashion. That is, in saying why certain movies are evil and demeaning to women, they are insulting women which don't fit into their particular feminine world view:

Female tough-guys are on half the channels. Macho girls are stomping, kicking and punching a politically correct path through our culture, implanting new and false images into the public psyche. The method of presentation is simple. A man in a woman's body is seen to act like a man and look like a woman. The image itself serves to confuse both men and women -- instantly deconstructing notions of human gender developed by trial and error over many centuries. A corrupt new role model now appears, with tremendous psychological energy behind it: a vast sisterhood of lady fighter pilots, hand-to-hand combatants, detectives, FBI agents and firemen appear on the screen. Since seeing is believing, millions of human beings are growing up with bizarre self-misconceptions planted firmly between their ears.

The logic in the movie descriptions bewilders me. For instance, while discussing the Charlie's Angels movie, the reviewer says,

In order to be politically correct, these chimeras avoided using guns and instead used the female body as weapons, which is much worse, more obscene and more likely to provoke violence against women. By using the body as a weapon, men cannot avoid desiring to commit violence against the women. The interlacing of sexuality and violence by making the violence look sexy and the constant insane obsession with portraying violent females make the men who see it what to beat the hell out of and rape them.

The director said that Liu is "the most fluent in her groundwork, [able to make] beautiful motions with her arms and legs."

Ugly violent motions. If anyone is so perverse as to think that portraying the female body as a violent weapon is beautiful then you should witness the beauty of their violent death.

Barrymore, known for her bisexuality and drug use, said "the kick is in seeing women kick butt while still retaining their femininity."

Insane perversity of the most extreme -- schizophrenic in its viewpoint. The Barrymore's have a history of mental illness in the family, her father was insane.

"This doesn't male-bash," she says.

No, its women bashing. And the inevitable result will be an increase in the women who are bashed by men incited to violence against women by this violent pornography.

I can't help but think that either the author is exaggerating or is mentally unbalanced. From everything I've read on the page, it would seem that any sort of aggressive physical behaviour on the part of a woman is nothing more than imitation of male behaviour and also a tacit invitation for rape. How bizarre! If I'm reasoning this out properly, this means that any woman who takes self-defense classes is doing so out of perversion.

I hadn't realized I was such a whore.