LADY GODIVA: The Naked Truth

In the immortal words of Franz Kafka on following The Policy of Truth, "Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion.   Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."   So I'm merely gonna take that advice from Kafka and be as honest here as possible in this post. Remember waaay back in ol' 1987 when the word  'Mannequin'   was a movie?   (Oh look!--it's almost like a toe tag she's got on herself there but it's like a pink price tag ankle bracelet, how cute)! And when the word "mannequin" was just for a giant plastic human figure to exhibit clothing on in a "realistic" fashion that was slightly less creepy than a Victorian Doll for the purpose of selling various attire?     (You are welcome for the nightmares). Well, now a mere mannequin means so much more. "Mannequin ah, wah-unn..." #1).  T...

The lyrics to 'Blurred Lines' are exciting, empowering for the female libido, and question if the idea of womanly monogamy is really a naturally occurring tendency or a socially constructed normative.  These set of lyrics : "Ok now he was close, tried to domesticate you But you're an animal, baby, it's in your nature Just let me liberate you Hey, hey, hey You don't need no papers Hey, hey, hey That man is not your maker" are very explicit, Thicke is literally saying that your spouse has no ownership over you, that your husband (or domestic partner) is not your personal god that you report to that has dominion over your body.  It's as if he's invoking women to question sexual territories.  Many feminists have argued that marriage is nothing more than institutionalized slavery.  Some of the empowerment that Thicke lends is devalued when he implies he's "gonna take a good girl", again, an issue of compliance and bein...