Happy Heteroween by Dan Savage
I love Dan’s “everybody in the pool” take on sexual objectification. So anti-prudish and he’s right.
Right now things are a little unfair—a little—on the gender front. Straight girls are expected to show flesh on Halloween; straight boys aren’t. Sadly, I don’t foresee that changing anytime soon. People who want to fuck men—straight and bi girls, gay and bi guys—show flesh because it works, it will attract positive male attention. (Well, that depends on how you feel about male attention, I guess.) Engaging in that sort of display—here are my tits!—is perceived as feminizing, hello, and that makes it a less successful strategy for straight males than it is for straight females. Showing off their tits is an effective way for girls to attract straight-male attention; guys who show off their tits risk looking like fags. Straight guys don’t have the same incentive to bare their flesh on Halloween.
It’s a shame, of course, because there are a lot of straight guys out there who have amazing bodies, and they should be encouraged to show off on Halloween, to celebrate their erotic power and do like the gay boys do: objectify and be objectified at the same time. That would make the straight pride parades, aka Halloween, feel as egalitarian as the gay pride parades on which they were unconsciously modeled.
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katiebabs wrote,
If we all walked around naked, there would be no problem.
Link | October 31st, 2009 at 8:46 am
Ally Blue wrote,
YES! Yes yes. Men should show some damn skin already! Why don’t they? I’ve been deprived all these years? It’s not fair!
Katiebabs, AMEN, sister. There are TWO reasons I don’t walk around bare-assed my own self.
1. I’d get cold. Brrrr.
2. For some reason, other people are a-skeert of nipples. And girl-thingies. And, er, probably those stretch marks the boy-child gave me before being born too O_O
Link | October 31st, 2009 at 9:37 am
Angelia Sparrow wrote,
I’m with Ally. It’s 57 degrees here in the MidSouth. There’s snow on the ground in many parts of the US. Skin? I don’t THINK so.
Also, the last eprson to see me naked was the meter reader. I swear it was an accident. A happy accident. With that bowl in his hands, he makes a perfect birdbath.
Link | October 31st, 2009 at 9:39 am