A judgment of Paris
Nov. 20th, 2009 12:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomusToday I want to bring together, here on Click Opera, an entry in which you the readers do most of the work, and in which images take the place of text. I'm also interested in how predictable my aesthetics have become. So what I'm proposing is a judgment of Paris; a beauty contest which is also a sifting of values (visual, aesthetic, political, semantic, sexual).
I want to see images of females, girls, women you think are totally my type. They should be wearing clothes, that's important. People without clothes are stripped of cultural referents, and we want those. They should be people who style themselves rather than have professional stylists, and they should be ordinary people, not celebrities. Street style sites like Facehunter might be a good place to source the images, or Flickr feeds. They shouldn't be people I know in real life. Be nice to me in your comments (yes, I am very old, and a bit funny looking) and be nice to the women.
At midnight CET I'll select a winning image -- the person I find most appealing, according to my own personal aesthetic code. I hope I won't have to exclaim "You never knew me!" I think by now you probably do.
Update (midnight CET): What an exciting finish! With about twenty minutes to go before the non-sexist gong sounded, this very beautiful image arrived:
While it looked for a while as if this indie musician would win, the judges -- all right, judge -- decided that she must be excluded as, possibly, a "celebrity", and, possibly, styled (though these things aren't really provable, and we don't know who the woman is).
And so this woman was chosen instead:
The judges (all right, judge) particularly liked the elegant hooded white garment, the expression of intent concentration, and the evidence of creative endeavour (carving) in the picture. Thanks to all who submitted pictures.
I want to see images of females, girls, women you think are totally my type. They should be wearing clothes, that's important. People without clothes are stripped of cultural referents, and we want those. They should be people who style themselves rather than have professional stylists, and they should be ordinary people, not celebrities. Street style sites like Facehunter might be a good place to source the images, or Flickr feeds. They shouldn't be people I know in real life. Be nice to me in your comments (yes, I am very old, and a bit funny looking) and be nice to the women.At midnight CET I'll select a winning image -- the person I find most appealing, according to my own personal aesthetic code. I hope I won't have to exclaim "You never knew me!" I think by now you probably do.
Update (midnight CET): What an exciting finish! With about twenty minutes to go before the non-sexist gong sounded, this very beautiful image arrived:
While it looked for a while as if this indie musician would win, the judges -- all right, judge -- decided that she must be excluded as, possibly, a "celebrity", and, possibly, styled (though these things aren't really provable, and we don't know who the woman is).
And so this woman was chosen instead:
The judges (all right, judge) particularly liked the elegant hooded white garment, the expression of intent concentration, and the evidence of creative endeavour (carving) in the picture. Thanks to all who submitted pictures.
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Date: 2009-11-20 06:49 pm (UTC)you really, really don't bloody get it, do you?
wow...wow.
Date: 2009-11-20 09:24 pm (UTC)nick, you've really lost it today, "mate."
Re: wow...wow.
Date: 2009-11-20 09:32 pm (UTC)Re: wow...wow.
Date: 2009-11-20 10:00 pm (UTC)do you really think the police advise women not to "fight back" in these situations??? you're lost, man...
Re: wow...wow.
Date: 2009-11-20 10:16 pm (UTC)Re: wow...wow.
Date: 2009-11-21 01:14 am (UTC)We really are in no place to judge someone because we think their reaction was risky ... it thankfully ended the ordeal for her. There's no need to judge whether it'd be a good thing to advise, it worked then and there with her instincts, which is proof that it can work. It is always unpredictable but her attacker really is the only person who could have known for sure how they could change the situation... telling her what she should have done really overlooks that.
Most importantly I think of someone who'll go round trying to grope people probably does so believing they ARE immune, that women do not react, and will be passive maybe becayse they are encouraged to be so. It's good when women are able to be NOT that.
So you're completely wrong.