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This is the first draft of a paper for my pop-culture class. Read it and weep.
Britney Spears’ shaved head at face value only seemed culturally relevant because it was shocking, but the significance of one individual’s breakdown quickly became the metaphor of one culture’s implosion: celebrity culture. Britney Spears’ shaved head is culturally significant, because prior when we saw any other “celebrity starlet” bareheaded it was a symbol of strength. Sinead O’Connor, Natalie Portman, Demi Moore, (we’ll ignore that it’s problematic that a woman has to have male attributes to appear strong). These women were revered and admired, artists or dedicated actresses in fulfilling their roles, going against the grain of convention, a woman’s bald head—a celebrity woman’s bald head—meant that she transcended beauty because she didn’t need something that is a paramount part of femininity’s essence—long locks—to appear beautiful.
While the feminist reading into this is the most obvious, perhaps they just want to say, in this economy being a janitor is a perfectly acceptable means to make money. But then you see the “Girls Only” thing and you kind of want to puke all over yourself. However, how many female janitors, excuse me custodial workers, have you seen in your lifetime? Far less than male “cleaning crew members,” mayhaps it’s time a woman empty out the tampon disposal box at the local Pizza Hut.
The worst part is, I definitely would have wanted this as a kid… Fuck if I was going to actually clean my room though.
So, I’m taking this class on Pop-Culture theory. We read these esoteric texts about the relationship between commerce and art, mass production, etc. But we also spend a lot of time in class watching youtube videos and analyzing them in pertinence to the theories we read.
First we watched that^^^. Yeah, it’s boring as shit, but this was entertaining circa whenever the fuck it was before we invented the Internet. Then we watched this. Read the rest of this entry »
/sigh. Well, first of all, forgive the lack of updates on this site, I haven’t eaten since Monday and think I am having some sort of psychotic episode. WHATEVER! Read the rest of this entry »