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Brian Sorgatz
(rhymes with “cats”)
Arcata, Humboldt County, California, United States
What sort of man blogs about Playboy? I flatter myself to think that Kendra Wilkinson might call this blog intellectual pimping.
To see what I look like, click here.
ISFP “Composer Artisan.” Culturally and economically libertarian for reasons having nothing to do with Ayn Rand. The rabbit in the avatar is not mine. I stole the image from the House Rabbit Society home page. Favorite activities: reading, writing, crosswords, Jeopardy!, moviegoing, television (and proud of it), piano, didgeridoo, foreign languages (currently Spanish), light hiking, spiritual practice, friendship, sex.
Hollywood, California, is my spiritual hometown. I actually grew up in three other communities in California, but it hardly seems to matter which three. How could my heart take root anywhere under the tyranny of American public schooling?
I don’t have to work for a living. After my father died in December 1997, my family and I won a legal settlement.
Playboy and pornography does [sic] objectify women and men.Capitalism enables more and more people to have more and more of what they want. The rich get richer; the poor also get richer. In the immortal words of Austin Powers, “Yay, capitalism!”
It commercialises human bodies for profit. Here is the object. Desire it. Now masturbate and move on. It's consumption. Capitalism must be fed by endless consumption.
That is the truth of the adult industry, whether individually we think it is immoral or not. It's the nature of any industry and job. You sell what skills you have to survive.If this is true of all industries, why is porn singled out as a target of outrage?
In the wider world, it's much tougher for women because they have to be talented AND beautiful. As of yet, that double demand is not made of men. But it is slowly developing.Do you have social-science data to back up the claim that we’re getting shallower? Or is this just another unquestioned assumption of fashionable dime-store social criticism?
Men and women are harsh judges of women whether the women are 'beautiful' or 'ugly'. Society has conditioned us to judge women by their looks.
Beautiful women (and men) have a natural advantage in life, so it has been and always will be. Looks or the lack of them, are nothing to be ashamed of. Nor are any of the gifts given to us by God/Nature.
Yet the increasing Hollywoodisation/pornification of the culture around us has reduced our ability to accept people for who they are and for the total skills they bring to the party of life. "Yeuch! Look at that slob!" "Eeew! can you believe she has the nerve to go out AT ALL!?"
Riss, why should the choice be between beautiful and objectified and their opposites? Surely it's time we all did a lot of growing-up and started to appreciate more than just the surface?
As a woman, you know you are more than your looks. Society often doesn't. That's where the objectification arises. Women are often used and seen as decoration. Playboy is the text-book case for this process. Get the Stereo, get the swinging pad, get the sports car, and get the girl. And replace them all in a few months. Consume and move on. How potent are you? You still stuck with THAT old model?You’re leaping to conclusions about what I think of the women in Playboy—and women in general. If you read my blog carefully, you’ll see that I’m obsessed with the psychology of women’s choice to pose. This must mean that I regard them as people, not things. Things don’t have psyches.
And BTW, feminists have long-campaigned against the oppression of women (and men) in EVERY country in the World, whether it be Saudi Arabia or the States.Many Western feminists turn a blind eye to woman-hating policies and practices in non-Western societies, as a prominent feminist has recently admitted in Playboy. See this earlier post of mine. That episode of American Dad is satirically truthful, I’m afraid.
Alan
Posted by Brian Sorgatz at 2:31 PM
Jetting Through Life left this comment at November 16, 2005 3:40 PM
