Discernibly "Turgid" Penises outlawed

Hakki Alacakaptan nucleus at superonline.com
Sat Feb 9 11:30:54 PST 2002


|| -----Original Message-----

|| From: Gar Lipow

|| >So under that dumb blonde exterior, Mae West knew her

|| classics! Ah, the

|| > irony of the paraphrase: Is that a gun in your pocket or are

|| you just

|| happy

|| > to see me?

||

|| Neither Mae West nor most of the characters she played had a

|| dumb blonde

|| exterior. More of a "smart" blonde exterior - tough, wise-cracking,

|| agressive. (...)

|| I've always thought that the character Mae West created was an

|| exception

|| in American sexual fantasy - a sexually agressive woman who was

|| neither a victim or a villain. I'll bet somewhere there is a really

|| good feminist analysis of Mae.

I agree of course, I was just being facetious. She was brilliant.

There's a book called Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp From Mae West To Madonna by Pamela Robertson. West also wrote 3 plays in 1926 - 28 called Sex, the Drag, and Pleasure Man.

Hakki



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