In the tradition of coming up with band names with no intention of forming a band... Might I suggest someone write a thesis entitled "The Spectacle of the Breast: Australia's visual fixation with the tit." The thesis is founded on the warcry of the Australian male: "show us ya tits!" For those of you outside the borders of the island continent, the phrase really is an Australian mantra. No lie.
You'd think every day is Mardi Gras (a la New Orleans, not Sydney) here, with women flashing their breasts in return for some plastic beads... But the flashing rarely occurs on the streets of Melbourne, despite the constant requests from the Aussie blokes. Remember Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction a few years back? The media here repeated video and photos of the incident without any of prudish America's breast blurring. What's the big deal, asked Australia!?!
In related news, I saw a young woman on campus recently. She was a typical collegiate -- rather studious looking, attractive but not stunning, dressed for comfort -- with a t-shirt that read: they're real. Of course the shirt drew my attention to her rather large (and apparently natural) breasts... I took her shirt's word for it.
So if anyone wants to write a thesis about breasts in Australia, you're welcome to the topic. And would someone else please explain America's new habit of blurring the mouths of people swearing on television... with the sound already beeped, it all looks like "vacuum" and "lasso" and "beach" to me. Is it possible that children were learning new swear words by watching the movement of silent mouths? If so, that's fascinating and grant-worthy.
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