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Jun. 29th, 2007
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Jun. 29th, 2007 01:55 pmI do not know if it is posible for me to post these links to a story on bullfighting without causing lots fo comments about how evil bullfighting is or without engendering some sort of demand for my own position on the matter, which is sort of besides the point and in the way of my interest in the matter here.
I was rivetted by this article in the Wall Street Journal for it is about mythmaking and the world of dying arts, and a lot of my life is, of course, based around the gasps things make as they pass from this world.
http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/after-5-year-exile-torero-returns-to-the/n20070615093409990003
I was rivetted by this article in the Wall Street Journal for it is about mythmaking and the world of dying arts, and a lot of my life is, of course, based around the gasps things make as they pass from this world.
http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/after-5-year-exile-torero-returns-to-the/n20070615093409990003
another idle thought
Jun. 29th, 2007 05:15 pmIs our culture's excessive obsession with weight a partial product of the casualization of clothing?
I realize that wealthy societies as a rule tend to favour thinness and poor ones heaviness, because those things are markers of affluence (i.e., time to work out and be "healthy" or proof you have enough to eat and are therefore "healthy"), but as I was look at all the bad fashion choices in Union Square today, I realized almost everyone looked like shit because their clothes had no damn structure and excessive thinness can at least fake that structure or "require" less of it, than a larger softer body. That said, people are not made of perfect curves, straight lines and ideal angles at any weight, and I say this as a woman who can bring death with her elbows. I'm not convinced that better tailoring and accurate sizing can solve problems, but I sort of think the lack of both has caused a bunch of them.
I realize that wealthy societies as a rule tend to favour thinness and poor ones heaviness, because those things are markers of affluence (i.e., time to work out and be "healthy" or proof you have enough to eat and are therefore "healthy"), but as I was look at all the bad fashion choices in Union Square today, I realized almost everyone looked like shit because their clothes had no damn structure and excessive thinness can at least fake that structure or "require" less of it, than a larger softer body. That said, people are not made of perfect curves, straight lines and ideal angles at any weight, and I say this as a woman who can bring death with her elbows. I'm not convinced that better tailoring and accurate sizing can solve problems, but I sort of think the lack of both has caused a bunch of them.