Love & Lust on Film: Scarface, Bridget Jones and Lessons Learned - Page 3

Why not just fuck Tony Montana or whoever it is that appeals. We’re just trading dependencies by falling into consumerism instead of relationships. Product can’t talk back or betray or hurt us the way a person can, and god help if us we should live life and take a chance at love, and yes, that includes hurt. It’s fear that controls us, but ultimately we’re not living. Instead, we create this illusion of life, like the illusion of post-coitus achieved with make-up and hair-texturizers .

For our all of our so-called liberation and advancement as women, I think we had a helluva lot more fun in the seventies, when women were just beginning to enjoy the sort of rights men had always enjoyed; a time when women grew their hair long and brown and used Herbal Essence in the original green bottle and didn’t feel the need to trim and shape their public hair into neat little strips; when women fell in love and fucked and married and felt love and heartache and betrayal and wrote great songs about it, like Carole King, whose songs wouldn’t be possible without all of those messy emotions, that today, we just don’t want to deal with.

Look: I don’t find a huge pubic bush particularly sexy, but I find the choice sexy, I find that back in the seventies, women weren’t trying to shape-shift themselves into acceptable fem-bots for men. For as much as we say we have more now and deny that we aren’t concerning with making ourselves attractive to men (which, is also stupid, because it’s natural to want that, to want to be attractive), we nonetheless fit ourselves into this neat little box, ultimately defined by men and glossy magazines that serve as guide-books to snagging a husband; so we trim and stuff our chests with saline and silicone and plump our lips with chicken fat (chicken fat!), which is just disgusting, and even inject poison into our faces when in the seventies, we wouldn’t even buy canned goods at King Kullen if they were even slightly dented for fear of botulism. All this time and effort to fit in, be attractive. But why bother fitting the type if no man is ever going to see it. In short, why make yourself desirable when you are so afraid of this desire and insist in a shrill voice that you don’t want “this kind of attention” and insist , oh really, we’re doing it all for ourselves because it makes us feel better.

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Sadi Ranson-Polizzotti is a published writer in both the United States and Europe. She is widely known for her music commentary, particularly her writings about Bob Dylan about whom she runs a highly-trafficked site. …

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  • 1 - Eric Olsen

    May 27, 2004 at 1:18 pm

    Whoa, that's something Sadi, thanks and welcome! Never has gardening sounded so appealing.

  • 2 - Chris Kent

    May 27, 2004 at 1:24 pm

    ----these are girls with giant blue vibrators tucked away in their Pier I night-tables----

    Sadi, I did not want to know this!!!!

    Nice work, and interesting to see things in your perspective - though you use the word "fuck" more than Tony Montana!....;-)

  • 3 - sadi

    May 27, 2004 at 3:23 pm

    apologies for language, and i think you're right ... i hadn't realized it was so full of bad language. i promise to be better next time!

    thanks all for reading... hope you found it interesting... very gratifying to know it's being read...

    of course, it's just my opinion... and grateful for all feedback.

    sadi

  • 4 - sadi

    May 27, 2004 at 4:45 pm

    ahhh...i see the typos and i am so sorry. so now with the language and the typos, i hope i haven't totally lost anyone... though maybe for other reasons. I will be more careful in the future. thx. to all for reading... and please keep posting comments if the spirit moves you. i plan to write every week... so now Onward to next topic !~ Thx for being such a receptive audience; your comments mean everything.

    sadi

  • 5 - Eric Olsen

    May 27, 2004 at 8:36 pm

    S, if there are typos (I fixed a couple) please fell free to go back in and edit. I reedit my own posts all the time. That's why they are perfect.

  • 6 - Ant

    Jun 01, 2004 at 5:29 pm

    Sade
    I thought your colorful use of language was totally refreshing (you write in the way I talk)- and suited the topic perfectly!

    I really enjoyed the article and your style. Bravo!

  • 7 - sadi

    Jun 01, 2004 at 5:42 pm

    awww, shucks. glad to hear it, Anthony! Working on other stuff, so you'll have to check that out too... if the spirit moves ya. ;)

    keep cool

    sade

  • 8 - Erica

    Jan 13, 2005 at 6:52 am

    Sadie, just because you've had a few bad experiences in life doesn't mean true love doesn't exist..and NO I do not believe "the virginal bride" is a "silly charade." Love is hard though no doubt.

  • 9 - Eric Olsen

    Jan 13, 2005 at 8:29 am

    "true love" requires as much or more work than false love

  • 10 - Shark

    Jan 13, 2005 at 8:42 am

    Sadi sez: "...I feel most beautiful when I am alone in my garden, wearing that slightly see-through slip that I love and my Doc Marten gardening boots and no underwear and no make up and my high-lights have grown out and I’m covered in freckles and my breasts are loose in my shift and I feel full and ripe and full of life and that the world is mine for the taking."

    Whoa.

    Sadi, coupla things:

    * got jpgs?

    * Universal Law #33: ALL men are either gay or insensitive pricks; there are no exceptions.

    * ie. You shoulda been a lesbian; women are great!

    * "Masturbation: Sex with someone I love!" -- Woody Allen

    * I've never been one to define myself relative to others' expectations, but man, thanks to age and wisdom, all that crap means even less. God rewards the patient survivors with enlightenment coupled with flaccidity.

    * got jpgs?


  • 11 - sadi

    Jan 13, 2005 at 3:30 pm

    hey Shark: excellent points all, and jpegs exist, but alas not for sharing.... ;)

    the older i get, the more i wonder about this "true love" business. Yes, Eric is right; if it does exist (my issue), then it requires as much or more love than false love, no question. But i wonder how we define true love anyhow? One may know what is true for onesself, but what of the other and how they feel? How do you know whether or not their love is true?

    Yes, without a doubt, i should have been and almost was a lesbian, and odd you mention since i was just saying this to my friend P. today, who was agreeing with me. I was deeply in love with a woman who is a lesbian many years ago, and we were and are good and dear friends but things did not progress for myriad reasons - too complicated to get into here, and i think though, to the point, much to the regret of both of us likely. It's too bad. Things would have been totally different for me and for her too, no doubt. Life would be nothing like what it is today.

    Shark says All men are either gay or insensitive pricks, which i hate to believe, but experience is showing me that this may have more truth than initially believed and i do not WANT to believe that, so am happy to be proven wrong at any time. Please... show me that this is NOT the case.

    That's all i have to say. Shark, my dear friend, i would send you jpegs, but we're not that close, are we, so how can i do that? sorry sweets...

    love to all,

    sade

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