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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (32362)	3/11/1999 4:38:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

No real confidences involved, really. I've just noted - and commented on - the observation that women tend to pay a huge degree of attention to celebrities: movie stars, models, princesses, rock stars, etc. They read about them, imitate them, dream over them, etc. Christine commented that holding these physically "perfect" specimens up as an archetype drives women to starve themselves and have various bits added to themselves. She thinks they are ridiculous things to do, and I agree. My question is, why do they do theses things? I do not think that they do them to attract "better" men, if they were interested in attracting men they would be taking cues from the men that they actually associate with, and developing altogether different areas of themselves. I honestly don't know why they do it. I have occasionally chided women, I think on one occasion here, for pretending that the images presented by male celebrities have anything at all to do with reality. I can't remember who they were talking about, but somebody described some celebrity as "a fine man" and that bugged me. I mean, how do you know? The answer is you don't, it's just fun to believe it. The chances are he's actually a stuck up, egocentric asshole. Men may gape at actresses on purely aesthetic grounds, but I don't think they have many illusions about what they are really like. For my own part, if I watch a movie I might fantasize about the character, but never the person playing it. An actress in one role might inspire all manner of daydreams; the same actress in another role will leave me totally cold. The character that is evoking the response is as much the creation of the writer, the director, and the DP than she is of the actress. Probably more. The role of the cast in creating a film is about one step beyond that of the props. The difference is that the props are more intelligent, easier to get along with, and do what they're told.