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Banned at the Bay Bridge: Too “Brokeback” for CBS Outdoor?
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: injest on April 30, 2007, 06:38:30 pm ---I think the 'born and bred' thing is context sensitive....the song is a laundry list of his 'girls' physical attributes (reads like a laundry list) "sexy long hair, Sexy long legs" and compares her to his radio and car....(those were made in foreign countries)
and using imagery or innuendo is not much better to me...in fact it is more insidious. If you are listening to a song calling a woman a whore your thought is "That is horrible" whereas you hear some song about a teenage girl "Rocking" some old man's world your responce is "Oh it is just a song" but it is very similar in attitude. Both demean and bring women down to a sexual object; the rapper isn't talking about love...and neither is the old man, in both the female is to be used and discarded. At least in most of the rap videos I have seen the women ARE in fact women..with women's shapes and faces. In some of these country videos they use VERY young girls with about as much shape as a six year old boy!
The Sheriff told me I was sounding angry yesterday...hope I didnt come across as too witchy!
:)
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Still with ya, Friend. :-*
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on April 30, 2007, 11:53:48 pm ---The guy is Orpheus.
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Perhaps not the best analogy here. According to Ovid, Orpheus was torn to pieces by Thracian maenads because, after he failed to rescue his beloved wife Eurydice from Hades, he gave up women for boys.
injest:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on May 01, 2007, 09:08:21 am ---Perhaps not the best analogy here. According to Ovid, Orpheus was torn to pieces by Thracian maenads because, after he failed to rescue his beloved wife Eurydice from Hades, he gave up women for boys.
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HUH!
I had never heard that part!
I had understood he was killed for spying on the sacred rite...that Dionysius led him to do it because he mocked him??
(it has been a long time since I read any Greek mythology..)
LauraGigs:
It's funny: depending on which book you read, you'll get the actual mythology story, or sometimes a 'PG' version of it in which alternate (more socially acceptable) plots are offered.
injest:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on May 01, 2007, 06:34:24 pm ---It's funny: depending on which book you read, you'll get the actual mythology story, or sometimes a 'PG' version of it in which alternate (more socially acceptable) plots are offered.
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so it is NOT true that homosexuality was accepted in Greece??
I am so confused....ya'll gonna have me researching mythology!
why would the Maenids kill him for having sex with boys? Zeuz had sex with boys...or is that wrong too?
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