Carrie Prejean’s topless photos and her anti-gay rhetoric illuminate the link between those two great American institutions: gay-bashing and pornography. As pre-teen boys start to figure out who they are, they’re encouraged by older boys to express their normalness by lining up along school hallways and discussing girls as body parts. If you, as a pre-teen boy, aren’t keen to this, if you, perhaps, have friends that are girls, and have a problem reducing girls to a series of orifices in public conversation, then you are gay, pure and simple. So says the predominant male teen culture. As a young teen boy, your qualms don’t matter, and you’d better show up for the sport, or suffer the queer-label all through high school. To help a boy along this journey are soft porn photos such as those disseminated by Ms. Prejean, photos that are easy to come by, even if you’re not looking for them. Photos like hers are like a beer in the family fridge, an accessible curiosity that pulls a boy along a path.
Carrie Prejean’s topless photos aren’t really sexual, but rather, political propaganda, because they lead impressionable youth forward into a culture in which there is only one way to view women, only one acceptable type of beauty, and only one type of sexuality. You see, Carrie Prejean’s job is not so much to deny rights to gays, but to teach that most necessary of all Republican virtues: social conformity.
Vicki Arabova
This article appears in May 21-27, 2009.
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Vicki Arabova, why so angry? When males hit puberty and all there parts are working, its madness. Especially when they get their first taste of the female. The only guys in high school trying to prove to their friends their not gay, are the gay guys. Speaking for myself, I went mad during those years. I wanted to literately have sex with every female I came in contact with. Hormones are raging, sex and messing around is all you have on your mind. Its like they are animals out for blood. It isnâ ™t until you grow older, and get your hormones in check, you begin to see past the boobs and ass. It has nothing to do with proving youâ ™re not homosexual, you know youâ ™re not homosexual.
Carrie’s statement about denying marriage rights to homosexuals wasnâ ™t vindictive or discriminating. She just said the word “marriage” in her view is between a man and a woman. Let them be in love and come up with their own ceremony.
I agree with Vicky (above)
My opinion is that so called “Beauty Queens” are the soft-core advertising campaigns in the pornography and prostitution industries – pageant contestants are like those stunningly gorgeous “hostesses” hired at the front door of certain disreputable establishments to lure men in to partake of the less beautiful workers within. Cheerleading is the athletic expression of this commercialism and belittling of women (strange that cheerleading is so ubiquitous in the US and not so elsewhere). My own view of women like Carrie is that they have reduced themselves to sales items in the interests of capitalizing on their assets and we should take no notice of what they say. I’m not Gay – but she can bash me with her breasts if she likes!
I hereby volunteer to get down to the bottom of this rebublican breast thing. I only have 998 points of light to go. Stand by for news.