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Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it

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Re: Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it

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Post by edanm »

joe_the_user wrote: post #52

Tiny point: "It was all bullshit: no one looks like that without calorie restriction." I'm 6' and I've weighted 135-145 pounds for my entire adult life and I'm 50+. Being a guy, I never restricted my calorie intake. I'd expect there are women with a similar metabolism. Which isn't to say that a lot of skinny celebrities aren't dieting like mad to get this look. But probably some percentage aren't and the rest hate th…

> I'm 6' and I've weighted 135-145 pounds for my entire adult life and I'm 50+. Being a guy, I never restricted my calorie intake. I'd expect there are women with a similar metabolism.

I don't think you're contradicting the article. You're simply "naturally" eating a low enough amount of calories to keep the same weight, relative to how many calories you expend in exercise/regular life.

At the end of the day, if you were eating more than maintenance calories for your metabolism, over time, you'd be gaining weight.

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Post by bemmu »

matt-attack wrote: post #348
leveleer323 wrote: post #340

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I agree with the gist of the post expect walking around naked. I don't know if its a right thing to be naked around children. I am too biased to be brought up growing with clothes on, haven't thought or heard the argument of the other side.

I can assure you that kids raised around parents who are naked constantly is perfectly normal and healthy. I was raised in the 70s and my parents were constantly naked. We all sat in the backyard hot tub naked. Not a thought was given to it. I now do the same to my kids. The key is to do it from day one, so there is never that first memory of “when did you first see your parents naked”. There is no first because it’s…

Growing up in Finland it is also perfectly normal to be with friends and family naked in sauna, and between it while you chill out on the balcony or take a break.

Re: Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it

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Post by A12-B »

mattowen_uk wrote: post #390
sideshowb wrote: post #380

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Why not Monty Python?

It got banned by most cinema chains on release, due to blasphemous content, and full frontal male nudity. Edit: OMG, despite people voting this comment up I am of course talking about Life of Brian and not Holy Grail... ...I'll see myself out.

It wasn't banned in the United States, which the OP said it would.

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Post by neltnerb »

_v7gu wrote: post #308
Sebb767 wrote: post #273

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Game of Thrones is/was very popular despite featuring all of these (maybe except pedophilia)

How old was Danearys at the start?

There are a lot of other children in that television show. They did not seem to shy away from implying they had sex with people for all kinds of horrific reasons.

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Post by imtringued »

ceejayoz wrote: post #109
ClumsyPilot wrote: post #45

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If your fertility rate is too low, the pention system and the economy collapses

Perhaps a system that relies on ever-expanding populations is bad?

It doesn't rely on ever expanding populations. It relies on retirees to be the minority which is a reasonable assumption to make. After all, everything the elderly buy has to be extracted/made via labor of the young.

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Post by pascalmahe »

sideshowb wrote: post #380
airhead969 wrote: post #325

Fuck all that mass-media social programming propaganda. Murder and violence are "okay," while sex and sexuality are "bad." I'll walk around naked, look at women, and hookup whenever I damn well please. Sex is awesome, bodies are beautiful, and no shame is necessary for either. Films that cannot be made in modern America: - Laura, les ombres de l'été (1979) - Lolita (either) - Pretty Baby (1978) - Caligula (1979) - Ro…

Why not Monty Python?

The Galahad scene about the Castle of Anthrax? The animated butts in the transitions?

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Post by stevekemp »

ZephyrBlu wrote: post #168
centimeter wrote: post #126

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I don’t think there’s any complicated explanation; if you are never exposed to a particular state of being (e.g. public nudity) while growing up, it will probably be uncomfortable as an adult if you only have a normal level of openness to new experiences. I don’t think fear of nudity is much different from fear of flying or fear of fear of public speaking or whatever. At least among my friend group, public nudity has…

I meant more from a cultural perspective than a purely behavioural one. Just curious if there are some obvious cultural differences which contribute to being brought up with nudity being more normalized.

In Finland going to sauna is commonplace and normal - families will do it in mixed groups, though they'll often start to segregate based on genders in early teens.

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Post by Singletoned »

A12-B wrote: post #393
mattowen_uk wrote: post #390

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It got banned by most cinema chains on release, due to blasphemous content, and full frontal male nudity. Edit: OMG, despite people voting this comment up I am of course talking about Life of Brian and not Holy Grail... ...I'll see myself out.

It wasn't banned in the United States, which the OP said it would.

No, he said it couldn’t be made there, which seems about right

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Post by torgian »

refurb wrote: post #363
JimBlackwood wrote: post #352

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Kids don’t know if something is good, bad, weird or whatever until they’re told. If you are fine not wearing clothes, and do it in your home, your kids wont think anything of it.

Not true. It’s not uncommon for a toddler to find a private place to defecate without being told. There is an innate sense of a need for privacy for some things.

I will now point you towards mainland China, where kids as old as 90 will shit in the streets. I’m not kidding either (although this is changing in the larger cities.... slowly)
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