Chaos, Freelance Writer
THERE ARE few things in this life as pleasurable as watching a woman's breasts while she's in motion. The bounce, the sway, the sheer kinetic energy being unleashed yet keeping a secret every heterosexual man just has to uncover, a feeling that can last just for a second or until the end of his natural life.
Not lust, not sex, just appreciation.
I recently bought the April issue of Playboy, its annual Sex and Music Issue. Guess who was the cover girl? Eighties pop teen queen and Britney precursor Tiffany. Remember All This Time, I Think We're Alone Now and Could've Been? That Tiffany, in all her glory and for just this moment, I need no further evidence proving the existence of God. He is in the details and I'll be damned if He didn't go into the details when he was making this woman. Sure, she's white, but so what? I'm a big anti-racist.
Where am I going with this? Right, I have to have a point don't I? Although one would think honest appreciation for a woman's body would be point enough...
Put it this way, I am constantly puzzled by the snivelling of insecure women who claim that the gender is being objectified in the media, by music videos, by men in general. They actually have classes on the subject at the University of the West Indies (UWI), often involving the Women's Media Watch, which is probably the strongest argument to support those who believe their tax dollars are being wasted at and by that august institution.
Let's get this straight. Women spend hours at the beauty salon doing things to their hair, often resulting in differences no self-respecting male will notice unless he is told to. They get their eyebrows removed and paint them back on, buy nails by the pack and hair by the foot, spend gazillions of dollars on clothes to emphasise their assets, yet they complain when we stare? I know men aren't supposed to understand you, but isn't that taking it a step too far?
Then there are the tirades about the way women are 'portrayed' in commercials and music videos and are exploited for their sex appeal. I find that funny, considering the fact that women have been exploiting their natural charms for centuries in order to ensnare men, and you don't hear us complaining. Besides, doesn't that point of view discriminate against the women who appear in music videos scantily clad or in ads based on how they look? Is it their fault they were born that way and you were not? Why shouldn't they be able to make a career out of it without being constantly made to appear like traitors to the gender? Just curious.
I put it down to insecurity really. Women have always been known for the ways they hyper-criticise one another, the way they compete against each other and how jealous they can be of each other. Saying it is the media's fault for their self-perceived shortcomings is a coward's way out. They have no one was else to blame about the way they feel when they wake up in the morning and look in the mirror. If the media didn't exist, they'd still be insecure and another scapegoat would be found.
It's funny really, if for no other reason but a large majority of Jamaican men are not interested in the brown-skinned, slim, big-breasted and long-haired look which seems to bear the brunt of most complainants ire. (Curious that would there be fewer complaints' if say, Claudette Pious was to appear in an ad selling beer wearing a 'batty-rider' and tube top? Or would there be immediate diatribes mostly from women about how females who weigh more than 105 lbs shouldn't display flesh?)
That's the point really. For every woman under the sun there is a man, hard as that may be to believe. He might not be the man you want, but who is to be blamed for the tall, dark and handsome stereotype you've been dreaming about? (Hmmm, wonder where that stereotype came from?) So no one is being objectified, merely appreciated. Sex sells and I suggest you deal with it. Leave your inferiority complexes at home.
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