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- From: ARCHER@utkvm1.utk.edu (T. Archer)
- Subject: Re: Nudist TV segment
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- References: <BzKwJF.6zr@kathunk.phaedrav.on.ca> <ll44502@pro-harold.cts.com> <1992Dec22.015544.23540@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:28:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.015544.23540@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> barlow@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Rebel) writes:
- >Wow....now I am curious...what movie did they show that has frontal male
- >nudity? Personally I have never seen this on HBO or in the movies that I can
- >remember. I think I would remember if I can see it because I am always the one
- >after a movie who complains that the woman was in umpteen trillon full frontal
- >nude shots but that the men NEVER are...which seems to me to be very sexist,
- >not to mention what it says about the acceptability of the male body. I
- >personally don't understand the prohibition against male nudity....it seems to
- >me that either you're against nudity all together or that you are for it all
- >together...what's with the double standard? *perhaps I am naive :-)*
-
- Actually, it is market-driven. Linda Hamilton (Sarah Connor, Teminator,
- Terminator II) was interviews about her role and asked to comment on the
- lack of "strong" roles for woman in motion pictures and responded, a little
- bitterly, and the studios were not really at fault, but were just responding
- to their market.
-
- "By far the vast majority of movie tickets are purchase by men, boys,
- really, between the ages of 16-25. And they want to see two things: a man
- kick ass, and a woman shut up." -- Linda Hamilton (Paraphrased)
-
- If her assessment is correct, that would also explain the relative nature of
- nudity in films. The people buying the tickets want to see it that way.
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