Showing posts with label mae west. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mae west. Show all posts
Friday, September 29, 2006
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Monday, August 07, 2006
Mae West quote for the week:
"It don't mean a thing if you don't pull a string."
update: I can't believe I misspelled her name!
update: I can't believe I misspelled her name!
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Hoe Hall of Fame: New Inductee
(make your own sign)
I am officially inducting Richard Feynman into the Hoe Hall of Fame. He joins the distinguished group which includes Mae West, Marilyn Monroe, and John F. Kennedy. Congratulations Richard Feynman!
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Feeling Dumpy
The beautiful Kat has posted lyrics and a video that really fits how I've been feeling the last few days:
Blogging will probably be light to non-existent this week.
Couple of Mae West Quotes for the week:
"He who hesitates is a damned fool."
"It's better to be looked over than over-looked."
(Don't look at me)
Every day is so wonderful
And suddenly, it's hard to breathe
Now and then, I get insecure
From all the pain, I'm so ashamed
...
To all your friends, you're delirious
So consumed in all your doom
Trying hard to fill the emptiness
The piece is gone - left the puzzle undone
That's the way it is
...
Don't you bring me down today
"Beautiful" by Christina Aguilera
Blogging will probably be light to non-existent this week.
Couple of Mae West Quotes for the week:
"He who hesitates is a damned fool."
"It's better to be looked over than over-looked."
Thursday, May 04, 2006
Monday, April 10, 2006
Hugh Hefner Is the Devil
Update, 1-19-07: This post is experiencing a huge amount of traffic today. I'm curious as to how people are landing here. It would be great to read comments explaining how you got here. Thanks!
He is responsible for the modern commodification (interesting that 'commodity' and 'commode' have the same Latin root, commodus) of women that has resulted in the disfigurement (physical and emotional) of an entire generation of women. He takes the power of female sexuality and compresses it into an unnatural yet potent form, somewhat like the distilling of extracts and essential oils from plants but more like a pharmaceutical chemical created to mimic those natural substances but is much stronger and more likely to have negative side-effects. Yes, he makes female sexual power equivalent to a drug.
When I first had this thought I wondered if I was being hypocritical by condemning a man for doing that when at the same time I admire women, like Mae West, who have exploited the female sexual power for their own benefit. I asked myself, "Why is it okay for a woman to use her sexuality for gain but wrong for a man to do it?"
The answer I came up with is that it is wrong for a man to use what is not intrinsically his for his own advantage. Mae West was only doing what was natural for her. She used the female sexual power that she was born with. But Hugh Hefner does not naturally possess female sexual power. He extracts it from the young women who surround him. He manipulates and exploits and adulterates that female sexual energy for his own gain. I see it as similar to stealing.
You might say, "How is that like stealing? Those women volunteer themselves." Not all stealing is that obvious, gun-in-the-face robbery. Sometimes people get misled by someone claiming to do all these things for them, caring for them and providing for them, etc., but at what price? These girls are seduced into a degrading lifestyle and pretty much sucked dry of all their youth and beauty and then they're disposed of and replaced with new girls, just like a commodity. He's a fraud and a user. Very few of those women really gain anything from all that they've invested in Hugh Hefner.
I know many men find his lifestyle enviable and ideal and perfect. But that mindset is immature and evil because it doesn't value women as equal partners but as a commodity to use and dispose of. The men who 'buy into' Hefner's offerings are just as misled and seduced as the young women he uses. And our society has suffered more than most men (and many women) would like to admit. It's no coincidence that the rise of Hefner's image of the ideal woman has corresponded to the rise in plastic surgery, especially breast implants, to make women try to attain that impossible ideal. And look at all the aging women, like Sharon Stone, who have built their lives on that image and are now going to extremes to try to maintain it. It's insane, and it's wrong.
Hefner just celebrated his 80th birthday. He doesn't look like your typical 80 year old man. Obviously, he's a vampire, forever youthful because he sucks the life-force and female sexual power from all of these young women. And that's why he's the Devil.
I googled Hugh Hefner and found these articles. I've only skimmed them so I'm not sure if they support or contradict my thoughts.
Hugh Hefner's Hollow Victory
Blows Against the Empire
He is responsible for the modern commodification (interesting that 'commodity' and 'commode' have the same Latin root, commodus) of women that has resulted in the disfigurement (physical and emotional) of an entire generation of women. He takes the power of female sexuality and compresses it into an unnatural yet potent form, somewhat like the distilling of extracts and essential oils from plants but more like a pharmaceutical chemical created to mimic those natural substances but is much stronger and more likely to have negative side-effects. Yes, he makes female sexual power equivalent to a drug.
When I first had this thought I wondered if I was being hypocritical by condemning a man for doing that when at the same time I admire women, like Mae West, who have exploited the female sexual power for their own benefit. I asked myself, "Why is it okay for a woman to use her sexuality for gain but wrong for a man to do it?"
The answer I came up with is that it is wrong for a man to use what is not intrinsically his for his own advantage. Mae West was only doing what was natural for her. She used the female sexual power that she was born with. But Hugh Hefner does not naturally possess female sexual power. He extracts it from the young women who surround him. He manipulates and exploits and adulterates that female sexual energy for his own gain. I see it as similar to stealing.
You might say, "How is that like stealing? Those women volunteer themselves." Not all stealing is that obvious, gun-in-the-face robbery. Sometimes people get misled by someone claiming to do all these things for them, caring for them and providing for them, etc., but at what price? These girls are seduced into a degrading lifestyle and pretty much sucked dry of all their youth and beauty and then they're disposed of and replaced with new girls, just like a commodity. He's a fraud and a user. Very few of those women really gain anything from all that they've invested in Hugh Hefner.
I know many men find his lifestyle enviable and ideal and perfect. But that mindset is immature and evil because it doesn't value women as equal partners but as a commodity to use and dispose of. The men who 'buy into' Hefner's offerings are just as misled and seduced as the young women he uses. And our society has suffered more than most men (and many women) would like to admit. It's no coincidence that the rise of Hefner's image of the ideal woman has corresponded to the rise in plastic surgery, especially breast implants, to make women try to attain that impossible ideal. And look at all the aging women, like Sharon Stone, who have built their lives on that image and are now going to extremes to try to maintain it. It's insane, and it's wrong.
Hefner just celebrated his 80th birthday. He doesn't look like your typical 80 year old man. Obviously, he's a vampire, forever youthful because he sucks the life-force and female sexual power from all of these young women. And that's why he's the Devil.
I googled Hugh Hefner and found these articles. I've only skimmed them so I'm not sure if they support or contradict my thoughts.
Hugh Hefner's Hollow Victory
Blows Against the Empire
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Mae West Quote for the Week
"When caught between two evils I generally pick the one I've never tried before."
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Monday, March 13, 2006
Mae West Quote of the Week
"Good sex is like good Bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand."
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Quotable Thursday
Can you imagine
what it would be like
to become aware
of an omnipresent ocean
of wild divine love
that has always been a secret to you
in the same way
that the sea is invisible to a fish? ~Rob Brezsny
Those who are easily shocked, should be shocked more often. ~Mae West
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ~Albert Einstein
Beauty is all very well at sight, but who can look at it when it has been in the house three days? ~George Bernard Shaw
Half a love is better than none. ~Helen Rowland
Start every day with a smile and get it over with. ~W.C. Fields
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ~Mark Twain
I can resist everything except temptation. ~Oscar Wilde
what it would be like
to become aware
of an omnipresent ocean
of wild divine love
that has always been a secret to you
in the same way
that the sea is invisible to a fish? ~Rob Brezsny
Those who are easily shocked, should be shocked more often. ~Mae West
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ~Albert Einstein
Beauty is all very well at sight, but who can look at it when it has been in the house three days? ~George Bernard Shaw
Half a love is better than none. ~Helen Rowland
Start every day with a smile and get it over with. ~W.C. Fields
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ~Mark Twain
I can resist everything except temptation. ~Oscar Wilde
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Famous Hoes
There have been several famous Hoes in the last century. We all can probably think of a few of them, but there are also a lot of Hoe wannabes. It's important not to be fooled by people like that. A lot of people might think that Britney Spears is a Hoe, but she's not. I suspect she's really a Pitch Fork in disguise. Anyway, probably one of the most famous Hoes ever was Mae West, gotta love her. If there had been a Hoe monarchy she would have been the Queen. Here's a picture for the younger folks who might not know who she was (god forbid).
Another one of my favorite famous Hoes is Ben Affleck. I think it's pretty obvious that he's a Hoe. His pal, Matt, isn't a Hoe though. I'm not sure what he is. There are a lot of people who diss Ben Affleck for this and that, but that kind of disrespect comes with the territory of being a Hoe (we're so misunderstood). He is kind of a pretty boy, but I was especially impressed when he was on that Bill O'Reilly show on FoxNews back when the Democratic and Republican conventions were going on. He is much smarter than most people realize, even though he is a liberal. Here's a nice picture of him. I like him with some facial hair.
Another one of my favorite famous Hoes is Ben Affleck. I think it's pretty obvious that he's a Hoe. His pal, Matt, isn't a Hoe though. I'm not sure what he is. There are a lot of people who diss Ben Affleck for this and that, but that kind of disrespect comes with the territory of being a Hoe (we're so misunderstood). He is kind of a pretty boy, but I was especially impressed when he was on that Bill O'Reilly show on FoxNews back when the Democratic and Republican conventions were going on. He is much smarter than most people realize, even though he is a liberal. Here's a nice picture of him. I like him with some facial hair.
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