feminism

Let’s talk about what is fun and what is not.

| Henna Timanttimetsä

I step on you. I step on the whoever I like and don’t like to make sure my right is the reigning way. What is that? Who does that? It sounds so familiar. It sounds so everyday behavior. Still it gives me the creeps, sadism of people and how we see it justified. How to choose what is right is a basic question of being a human. How do we get to the point of doing right, choosing right? What I do has an effect, no matter what I do, so I might as well do what I feel as is the right thing. I feel what is the right thing. We as people have some kind of knowledge over what is correct, still it can be the most difficult thing to do. When all I do is wrong in the eyes of the society I happen to live in, what to do then? There must be something wrong with me, how else… But that cannot be.

But we have all these feelings. How do we know if they are right?

Approving abuse and torture, but not nipples? Hello America. I know you guys are fucked up, but wtf. Oh yes I get it: making the rest of the world as fucked up as you are. Sounds as if someone was defining fun that we all should be having. Fun is overrated. I’m not liking your fun.

Indecent exposure

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Censoring nudity is the weirdest rule of all in our time of openness and sell off… All seeing eye is watching.

| Henna Timanttimetsä

Time of hypocrisy is obviously never-ending. I wonder why is that? We are terrified of uncovering. What is frightening about truth? It must be ugly. It is so terrifying that there are those who wish to act as watching men and women to preserve our civilized cultured fun and good times. What is so disturbing in nude human body that it is feared, loathed and made a root of all problems especially female body? Or is it, the human body and sexuality which follows us, such a troubled and sensitive area we simply cannot tolerate it as everyday imagery. This root of all human behavior and mess of ours we have to deal with and accept as part of us is under constant pressure, but not to be seen as it is.

We are grown into our intolerance. Plain nakedness is primitive and an abomination revealing us in a way we do not want to be revealed. Nudity means something (what does it mean?). It is the fucking, the never-fading animal, sexuality and desire, sin and corruption, shame and humiliation. That we have to hide it unless we are selling a product with the help of sexing up. That is ok. It is even more than ok when money is involved. Logic gets even more strange. We do like the sterile atmosphere of human contact and thought unless it is an ad of a large corporation. Taboos are and remain there left without permission to deal with them. The inescapable taboos torment us for a reason, often without logic we hide them and avoid reasoning with them. It is mind-boggling trying to understand the restrictions, fears, silence, inhibitions, bigotry.

It is also almost impossible to make a fascist change. When there is a restriction of expression how far can it go? What kind of expression is accepted? Where do we draw the line? How depended are of the scene we are at? We are dictated by our scene unless we make the rules change. How much can we pursue to change a mindset no matter how much there is opposition and oppression? If a scene is a jail, we enjoy the work we do, but the jail is prohibiting us from doing our work well, what is there to do? One creates a conflict and deals with it, makes most everybody to deal with the issue. It can get ridiculous if the opposition is of the mind that it is absolutely right and there is no need for change. Ideas of achieved perfection can be blinding.

What comes to those who watch us and why are they given power over freedom of expression, it is them we should be scared of.

Nudity is the loss of privacy, we accept is as a rip off.

Q&Why is cleavage ok but nipples are not? Obsession with breasts with fear of damaging something delicate.
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/blogs/philip-ball/are-we-living-in-the-age-of-the-brain

 

All the different ways of saying there are and different ways of not saying anything, still the message is very clear.

| Henna Timanttimetsä

Tendency of hunting down collectively those who have put themselves at risk for what they believe in is the dynamics of human relations. A very grim way of seeing Humanity as hunters only. We are for and against. (Is it so, that they believe in what they do?) Knowingly jumping in and dancing alone in front of a crowd to represent idea of giving oneself totally like in constant need of self-defense but still brave, afraid and there is no other way. Wanting acceptance (by not doing anything hugely out of the box, thinking) and finding justification for being alone, taking chances, for doing the act of performing, for doing what needs to be done and what one can do.

To judge is a right used so carelessly (it is to empower) and freely as that was the only kind of freedom (freedom of opinion and telling it) one should be able to use and have in finding necessary place and maybe question the existing hierarchy (but one has to step out of the given borders, one should). To use power over someone because it is possible and accepted in a certain way, because that way by tormenting we glorify ourselves as rightful, having right via power and by violating. Who is tormenting who one might ask? As it was a self-evident law of nature for people to have power to conduct, read and teach, and of course it is. Something that is the collective good, to be like-minded, to have something we agree on and is good for everybody. It is the strangest thing how we happen, it happens, what happens to us, how thoughts run and become actions.

Back to the blond celebrity who shaved her head in front of millions of people and insanity of this act. Who finds it insane? What is the insanity there is that we are watching. Insanity of finding a very everyday act suddenly interesting and more interestingly, mad. That it is out-of-order for a woman to shave her head, that it is a sign of losing it to cry in public. Nobody questions media nor those who wish to see this paraded and diagnosed as mental illness.

Those who stand for us as celebrities have a contract with us. Us who view them with all kinds of emotions and thoughts, that they are there to pose for us, they are there for us to own and admire, for us to reflect our desires not our illnesses. We do not want to see ourselves. We want to see a dream which is happy, victorious and eternally youthful without the problems that might be similar to ours. Pop stardom that is glued on a pretty girl cannot be changed. That image must stay as it is. We must not know all, only little pieces for us to put together a fabrication. It is a fixed plan. It cannot be changed or it will be ruined. The point of celebrity culture states clearly we do not tolerate change, mood swings, emotions we have ourselves nor anything extra we didn’t purchase. We want our money back if the image burns. Punk and art are too much to take, to understand. We have to understand what we see, set pieces of complete. Components set should be simple and sweet for us to buy and accept. To buy her narrow feminine perfection without her true mind, without a mind. Why is that safe and why is it given over and over again?

 

instant video

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turning left ← video

To actually see is difficult. It is almost impossible. It takes more than one’s eyes. It takes more than to believe one’s eyes.

| Henna Timanttimetsä
O’why? There are so many hindering factors that prevent us from understanding what there is; what there truly is and can be. A good example is of course a girl and a woman who are perceived, manipulated, looked at, pointed at, guilty of their sex. Femininity as it is seen through many and all kinds of lenses and not seen as femininity could be, but as it is wanted to be, and filters filtering what is left, so the picture is often an extremely thin perspective into a human being. That is as a process unbelievable. Process of how woman gets made. Does she make herself or does she let herself be made as often happens out of fear, fear of rejection and abandonment. A truly unbelievable paper doll flickering to be crushed on a whim? Thinking the world view made by eliminating and pruning, way of excluding unwanted qualities and parts as not liked, as ugly, as whatever reason: mostly those reasons do not make sense, because they are not based on any reason that would be true, fact or knowing what is what. What is let to exist as it is and will be.
Do I have to ask do you believe me?

Openness that is seen as an invitation to invade and intrude.

| Henna Timanttimetsä
She is sex. She wants sex. She thinks of sex. She sees sex. She likes sex. She is sex. She invites to sex. She inspires to sex. She is sex. She thinks of sex. She means sex. She wears sex. She looks like she wants sex. She looks for sex. She is the reason to sex. She is her rape. She is evil. She is luring. She is bad, just bad. She is twisted. She is sex. She is for sex. She is to be penetrated and won. She is a prize. She is trash. She is to be owned. She is to be thrown away. It is her sex. She is dangerous. Her sex is to be controlled, tied and bound. It is her idea. It is in her, the idea of sex. My God it’s her.

Her illness is not hers, from her. It is the damaged society that claims it is her that is ill. She reacts to insanity around.

| Henna Timanttimetsä
She seems as if she was not a real person. Only when she began to show signs of dissatisfaction which were carefully reported in media, signs of irregular behavior and grief. When she began to break out of her impeccable industry-wise flawless facade it was said she went crazy and needed to rest. She is a money-making doll without any other agenda, but she is a human being and that human being began to show. It is a touchy topic of losing one’s grip, grip from given strict frame from where she is not allowed to step out in public. Doing the opposite of what is expected her to do she shocks us, makes us laugh at her and at her illness, her stupidity, her fault, her flaw and her death as a pop icon. She tried to ruin what we think is her place and her job to deliver for us by doing shameful unreasonable hopping around and everybody followed. If she does not do what we think she should do, we push her over board and kill her. If she destroys what a woman is supposed to be we punish her. She has more than the most of us, we are allowed to rule her.

Bitching means to say what you really think and give an honest opinion. That is not expected of her. So bitching is useful and needed as is honesty. So why not call it that and not bitching. Honesty is beautiful. It makes people grow and see themselves as what they are. Bitching is different from speaking ones mind when there is need for it. Though I have wondered the use of SM-clothing, manners, body language and equipment in pop music. Is it to simulate bitching and attitude. Since lots of pop culture is available for people who are underage, what does such bitching mean to say exactly. Pop is hyper-sexual in imagery and therefore the contradictions in how imagery and behavior are regulated and dictated does not add up nor make hugely understandable logical sane message. As I understand it is fine to act crazy but not be one, it is fine to act and fantasize wild sexual play but in real life sexuality is a taboo and one of the biggest fights are over what is right and what isn’t what comes to expressing sexuality.
 
A superstar in a cellophane wrapping in high heels just like any other female mega star. She. The stereotype does not vary that much. It is not allowed to. It is the role of women in public eye not to give themselves as they are. That would be emotional whoring. If they were allowed to actually express themselves an order would break, power balance would change, the message too. Instead they are dreams to sell from a factory, an image, a sound and an act with strong sexual appeal, extremely strong. Sexuality is the basic marketing tool and an asset. Dolls do not and must not reveal themselves though. That is part of the play of keeping the distance and keeping the act of pop, a secret and likability. Lovable, kind, gentle, sexual, beautiful, distant, perfect, undemanding, not knowing too much, presentable, bubbly, funny, enjoyable, cute, young, fresh, new..Too many dimension is difficult, so keep it simple. It is part of their appeal, part of ’their’ art that there is that unreachable something; a star faraway glowing her beauty and singing songs, dancing for us. How a person, a girl who wants to dance and sing for her living ends up being a product and agrees to the terms of sexist, abusive industry. Fortune and Fame is what we all want, isn’t it. Price is quite heavy.

Social dimensions of Britney S.

| Henna Timanttimetsä
Have you heard her song Work B**ch? Without the video music stands as an anthem for working your way up higher and higher reaching out for the ecstasy and thrill, reaching for power and respect. Doing it on your own with what you have got with terms of your own, but in a world that also has certain kinds of terms and desires of its own and you have to know them. The video for the song does not differ from mainstream pop video. It is also an anthem for a lifestyle and what I find interesting there is the desire that is on display, desire of a girl and a woman, desire of a customer, a buyer, a client and a viewer to whom it is told that this is the world of business, act accordingly, know it to get the things you want. Because we are things who want things (there is a hint of criticism). Our world is a desert, which we make, world of things. How via supply and demand our world works, how knowing the game the making it works. Supply and a kind of an eternal answer is delivered like a package, a ready-made without any criticism that there might be something flawed in the picture. Why would we not want the same?
That there is no self-criticism or desire to walk away from a rip off world, criticism against having-it-all-lifestyle (because it is self-evidently good and right and what else is there) against the means of having it all is purely the way of today’s market. Message of this piece of music is heavy with images of girls working it, making it thinking they are in control, creating and delivering in terms of their own. Yes it is body of theirs, it is desire of theirs searching to match desires of well paying customers. Everybody is happy. Britney whipping her dancers to work it to make it. Yes it is work, but what do we want to make? Britney has been in business for quite a long time. She has got something that is worth all the money.
Her appearance is big part of her image. It is possibly the most important part in the package; even more important than music? There are many fixed ideas what Britney Spears stands for (or is it her that does the standing for something, I don’t know). For what I know she is not a singer-songwriter, but a performer of music made for her. She was somehow forced into a teenage pop stardom now wanting to be naughtier but still to be a product, so she does not escape her set frame at all. Diminished into a tight spot as a performer with little clothing, dance moves, videos, beats of music, interviews and gossip. She is a modern day freak now in Las Vegas. It is a tempting idea to laugh at her and she has been laughed at. Her intellect is questioned, but that happens to all women. All this sounds sad. The whole concept of pop stardom sounds sad and strictly framed. It is even more sad as we know that people seriously search for to do exactly what Britney does and is made to do.
Social dimension to Britney there are many. Surely some of her persona comes through, I think,, that she is a product of a sexist society that cherishes women to behave in a certain way and to get things in a certain way. Certain kind of womanhood is sexy and interesting for too many. To have it all instead of doing it yourself is a capitalist plan. We need to have all of the things that create respect for us, create an aura of possessing. How to DIY without sinking in to an industry that dictates most of the rules is difficult. Most of the world is dictated by big money industries and we like to see them as good job creators, star makers. Wealth is still the most luring dream there is and the search of riches makes the world go round.
in addition:
I claim if Britney Spears was allowed to be herself, her work would be hugely much more interesting. Interesting is, what is stopping her from actually being something else in front of us than what she now is doing and showing herself to be.