rose and olive

the Rose and Olive blog on nerve.com has been on a philosophical bender lately, lots more text accompanying the pictures. but i guess there has always been a philosophical/debatable air in the photos themselves...they leave alot for discussion if you'd like to take it up, which is why i treasure those ladies so much. This was taken from a blog entry about whether it's such a bad thing that cultural sexual icons are oblivious to their sexual allure, or specifically oblivious to the power of their sexual allure to grant them fame. "does the sex-bot really have to be a bot?" they ask...

If there's a sex indicator in our presence, is it best if she's thoughtless on the point of sex? Talking "mainstream" and hyper-conscious culture here, leaving aside the real sex sages (for the girls: Belladonna, Sasha Grey, Justine Joli, Reverse Cowgirl, Lisa Carver - I didn't realize how long this list would be and now I'm pleased with it) and concentrating on sex imagery you can catch in the grocery store checkout line. Is it most desirable that she remain a vessel where social ideas can be echoed around? Virgin/Whore perfected so that she might be mainstream-viable and still give an escape for our prudishness to raunch around in? This is an old article, but I don't care about that because it's still interesting. Maybe more now that she's lost her mind once. Point and case, the byline: A deeply weird encounter with the sexual savant of American pop......

It is not that Britney Spears denies that she is a sexual icon, or that she disputes that American men are fascinated with the concept of the wet-hot virgin, or that she feels her success says nothing about what our society fantasizes about. She doesn't disagree with any of that stuff, because she swears she has never even thought about it. Not even once. "That's just a weird question," she says. "I don't even want to think about that. That's strange, and I don't think about things like that, and I don't want to think about things like that. Why should I?"

i've huffed and stomped at the sight of mindless sexuality for years, since Sassy told me to i'd figure. but guess what, it's never going away. and i'm thinking that it might not be such a "bad" thing...in small doses, to keep us aware of our opposition. truthfully i don't think it's classifiable as bad/good. it isn't classifiable at all, it's an indicator of modern culture's modern desires. self-realization hits and we all come into a relationship with our sexuality, for better or for worse, at some point so it's best to just put up a strong endorsement for the ones keeping it real in the meantime until the britney's of the world get sucker punched with the reality of their existence and go bananas and bald for all the world to see. i responded to the blog saying something along the lines that i don't think we have to have either bot or non-bot as the model of our culture's desires. they each exist out of a response to the other (in a "which came first..." kind of relationship). the empowered, smart slut got tired of cheap expectations and that mindless sexuality that i was so tired of. the robot with mams got tired of being told she wasn't thinking about her sex enough and decided to not think about it at all. each a big "hey, fuck you buddy" to the other. but i'm too tired for the animosity anymore and, like i said in the response to the blog, i can only think of how rad it would be if the lisa carver's of the world had more of a presence in the public's pick of what's hot and leave it at that.