fuzzis
01-16-2008, 12:41 PM
Selling Sex in Honeymoon Heaven: (http://www.believermag.com/issues/200801/?read=article_strand)
Femininity, Niagara Falls, and the Genuine Allure of an American Fake
So...I'm not exactly sure what this whole article is about, but it ranges from talking about Marilyn Monroe and the "walk", to the invention of the honeymoon, to sex, to the construction of Niagara Falls, to gay marriage, to the Red Hat Society and women behaving badly. There's lots in the article to ponder (it's a LONG article), but right now, the piece I'm keying into revolves around the Red Hat Society.
...One of the things you might hope for from a powerful coalition of fun-loving older women is that they might wrench sexuality from the hot little hands of youth. Can the Red Hats take a cue from Rene Russo and Susan Sarandon and make being over fifty sexy, even for women without personal trainers and great bone structure? That’s what I want to see on opening night, but somehow it’s not what seems to be going on here. What’s happening here looks like license. The women are in a big group, and it gives them freedom to misbehave—which is what acting sexual is for women who aren’t young. In fact, the older the woman, the more willing she seems to act out. I expect at any moment to see a granny hook a waiter with her cane, or the Mountie emerge bedraggled from a scrum of purple velour and feather boas. Like the dressing up, it’s over the top, and in that way, it feels compensatory. It’s like the names the Red Hat chapters give themselves: Ravishing Redhats, Beautiful Outstanding Babes, Red Hat Gang of Purple Persuasion, Babes of Joyland. It feels like an act....
I'm reminded of women at a Chippendales or Thunder from Down Under show. Outrageous behavior from women who don't and wouldn't ever act that way in "normal" circumstances. Those situations have always felt a little...icky...to me.
Femininity, Niagara Falls, and the Genuine Allure of an American Fake
So...I'm not exactly sure what this whole article is about, but it ranges from talking about Marilyn Monroe and the "walk", to the invention of the honeymoon, to sex, to the construction of Niagara Falls, to gay marriage, to the Red Hat Society and women behaving badly. There's lots in the article to ponder (it's a LONG article), but right now, the piece I'm keying into revolves around the Red Hat Society.
...One of the things you might hope for from a powerful coalition of fun-loving older women is that they might wrench sexuality from the hot little hands of youth. Can the Red Hats take a cue from Rene Russo and Susan Sarandon and make being over fifty sexy, even for women without personal trainers and great bone structure? That’s what I want to see on opening night, but somehow it’s not what seems to be going on here. What’s happening here looks like license. The women are in a big group, and it gives them freedom to misbehave—which is what acting sexual is for women who aren’t young. In fact, the older the woman, the more willing she seems to act out. I expect at any moment to see a granny hook a waiter with her cane, or the Mountie emerge bedraggled from a scrum of purple velour and feather boas. Like the dressing up, it’s over the top, and in that way, it feels compensatory. It’s like the names the Red Hat chapters give themselves: Ravishing Redhats, Beautiful Outstanding Babes, Red Hat Gang of Purple Persuasion, Babes of Joyland. It feels like an act....
I'm reminded of women at a Chippendales or Thunder from Down Under show. Outrageous behavior from women who don't and wouldn't ever act that way in "normal" circumstances. Those situations have always felt a little...icky...to me.