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This thread is wonderful. I am a student of semiotics, the meaning and significance of signs and symbols. If the schizphrenia involved in American ways of dress and American attitudes toward sexuality doesn't make you scratch your head nothing will.
Yesterday I accompanied a friend to a big regional mall where she wanted to do some shopping. I often got bored while she tried on dresses and stuff, so I went out and walked around. Acres of cleavage! Jeans so tight that waddling was difficult, normal walking out of the question. On the younger women skirts as short as LA in 1968. This was an upscale mall, so most of the patrons were "height/weight proportional". None of this of course intersts me except as an intellectual and historical curiosity, but it sure qualifies there.
Now what is the purpose of this dress, other than sexual titillation? But overall it seems that in America the proper response to all this lovingly displayed flesh is to not see it, or perhaps to condemn it if you come from a certain religious traditions. Da Nile is not just a river!
This is not comment on Fed's companion, who may have been being photographed not because of her appearance but perhaps because she reminded the photographer of his sister, or as Lazy suggested, maybe she wan't even the intended subject.
Ha
Yesterday I accompanied a friend to a big regional mall where she wanted to do some shopping. I often got bored while she tried on dresses and stuff, so I went out and walked around. Acres of cleavage! Jeans so tight that waddling was difficult, normal walking out of the question. On the younger women skirts as short as LA in 1968. This was an upscale mall, so most of the patrons were "height/weight proportional". None of this of course intersts me except as an intellectual and historical curiosity, but it sure qualifies there.
Now what is the purpose of this dress, other than sexual titillation? But overall it seems that in America the proper response to all this lovingly displayed flesh is to not see it, or perhaps to condemn it if you come from a certain religious traditions. Da Nile is not just a river!
This is not comment on Fed's companion, who may have been being photographed not because of her appearance but perhaps because she reminded the photographer of his sister, or as Lazy suggested, maybe she wan't even the intended subject.
Ha