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May. 8th, 2008 @ 05:22 am 
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I have something terrible to tell you, my sweet dear internets. It’s so bad, you might have to take me off your friend’s list, delete all the comments I ever made to your LJ, and then come over to my house and cave my skull in. It’s so bad, I have to put this horrifying admission under a cut.
I think the whole Princess Leia’s Metal Bikini thing is seriously played out.
I’m not saying that it isn’t still sexy, but it’s been done to death and I don’t really find it interesting or exciting anymore. I saw recently that Deal or No Deal was doing a Star Wars theme and it occurred to me that the only reaction I gave to the idea of their dozen suitcase holders being dressed in the signature gear was to roll my eyes.
I think that this is purely a case of over exposure causing me to loose interest. I get the same feeling I would get if you offered to show me on of Pamela Anderson’s Mid-90s Playboy spreads i.e. “Seen it!”
In fact, that’s one of the major reasons I barely glance at the pics in Playboy before reading the articles. It’s because the poses haven’t changed since 1961. They might as well not even photograph new women, since it’s roughly the same photos over and over again. I don’t think I’ve really looked at a Playboy spread since about 1995. It’s not because I realized it was needlessly objectifying women, it’s because it was so damn repetitive. We’ll talk about my sliding scale of objectification later.
Frankly at this point I would be more impressed if a girl got some green make up and went as a chick from Orion or some other Star Trek hottie. Lord knows there were enough hotties on Star Trek, and lots of them exposed as much flesh as late 60’s TV would allow. It would require roughly the same amount of exposed flesh, and it would be something different. This assumes the girl in question is interested in dressing up in something sexy and exotic. Otherwise you could just dress up like Zoe Washburne or Susan Ivanova for all I care.
I understand why it’s supposed to be sexy, so don’t bother telling me all that. I know it’s sexy and I know why people want to dress up like that and why other people want to see people dressed up like that. My problem is that I’ve seen it so many times that it barely registers anymore. Sadly, it’s like so many things that used to be cool. Over exposure has, once again, made the very cool become very bland.
Or perhaps, particularly in the case of the game show, it’s the group doing the daring thing that got to me. One girl in a costume is a lot sexier to me than a dozen girls in the same kind of costume. This probably says something about my ideas on vulnerability as it relates to near nudity or some such thing like that, but I do find the single girl dressed like that more interesting than a dozen girls dressed like that. I would probably find a single guy dressed like that more interesting than a dozen guys dressed in the outfit, but as I’ve yet to find even one guy willing to go that far the question will have to remain academic.Feeling:  so ashamed What am I listening to?: Down to the Bone - 3 Days In Manhattan |
It just looks cold to me. Perhaps I'm just too practical. lol
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| From: | ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) loopy2 |
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May 8th, 2008 09:29 am (UTC) |
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I fully agree with you.
I often attribute my leaning toward the homosexual end of the preferential spectrum to overdoses of female nudity. Hollywood damn near paints your face with bush, but you'll never see an erect cock in an R flick. I suppose you just get bored with some things after a while...
As for Star Trek, hubby has been getting the original series via Netflix. I sat down to watch and every few minutes gave him a Look and "Could her skirt be ANY shorter and still cover her ass?" He just grinned. Something about 'this is one of the reasons he liked the show as a teenager' *grins*
Actually, they had to make the skirts a little longer in season 2 and 3. The skirts were so short in season 1 that they had to wear a sort of over pantie thing because any movement at all would show cheek. There were still tons of unintentional upskirt shots.
Actually, now I think about it, they might not have been unintentional.
We saw a LOT of Uhura's panties in season 1.
No, I'm not complaining.
Nichelle Nichols was rather hawt.
I remember one of the first episodes had the ship rocking, and they showed scenes from the crew's reaction... I'm pretty sure there were several upskirt shots... Especially as one woman practically bent over right in front of the camera! *laughs*
I think the image of Trek's unsexiness was cemented fairly well with Next Generation. Which would make it all the more interesting to see people parading around in the original uniforms. As far as I know, though, there were no female redshirts, so there wasn't too much of "strategically placed costume destruction" going on.
There is actually one episode where a female crew member's uniform get torn (as it happens, she was a red... skirt) but only a little and it was replaced with a dress fairly quickly.
And for the most part, with skirts that short you really didn't need to destroy the costumes.
This is true. Peeking up the skirts is something that the boys would be interested in. I guess you can do that easier than contriving some manner for holes to be made in a crewperson's top.
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May 9th, 2008 03:50 am (UTC) |
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The internet may be the wrong place to say this. . .
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. . . but I am seriously, SERIOUSLY tired of seeing women in their underwear.
I mean I should be able to check Cuteoverload or lolcat or some other stupid bullshit cutesy site without an obnoxious 'indie' tshirt ad showing a girl in her underwear. I can't even check CNN without seeing Victoria's secret ads.
I don't read fashion magazines for the exact reason that they are just skin mags masquerading as entertainment for women with the added intention of making you feel bad about yourself so you purchase useless shit. I should at least be able to see what the weather's going to be like without a half-naked woman dancing off to the right.
/barely-related ramble
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