[lbo-talk] Contemporary forms of female self-objectification

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>... that old American pairing of puritanism and prurience - we veer from 
>extreme to extreme, Billy Graham/Hugh Hefner

I think it's more a matter of veering from veneer to veneer -- America 
famously being the land of hucksters of every description.  E.g., you 
yourself share Melville's cynical view of the saintly Emerson as being a 
mere "confidence-man," Mark Winsome.  Billy and Hugh may have different 
lines, but they're two of a kind as classic American salesmen, their 
cardinal trait.

Carl