Thursday, December 18, 2008
Hetero A Feast for Eyes
Posted by Charles Mudede on Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:18 AM
It is right to hate the dictator, but sometimes it is good to have a laugh or two at his expense.
SWAZILAND Civic groups in Swaziland launched rolling protests against Zimbabwe’s much loathed dictator, Robert Matibili Mugabe outside a football stadium in which the 84-year-old dictator was drooling over topless girls.
[Mugabe] feasted his eyes on bare-breasted young virgins parading in the football stadium. His eyes were firmly transfixed on the proceedings.There is evidence of [Mugabe's] appetite for young, plum women, including his steamy extramarital affairs with the likes of his present wife, Grace, who he dated while his first wife, Sally was on her death bed.
[Mugabe] is rumoured to also have had an illicit relationship with Oppah Muchinguri as well.
His contemporary in the bush war that led to Zimbabwe's independence in 1980, Edgar Tekere clearly outlined Mugabe's love for women in his book A Lifetime of Struggle.
Let's now end our little laughter and give a little thought to the image of the young Swazi woman. Though in traditional clothes, we can well see that she is modern, urbane, a woman connected to the global images and standards of beauty. How can we see this? Why are the traditional materials unable to cover or obscure her modernity? We know for sure that if we were to go back in time to the pre-European period of this kingdom, we would find something like these clothes she is wearing but nothing like her body. That kind of body did not exist at that time. The difference can be imaged as that which exists between wild wheat and wheat developed by the techniques of industrialized agriculture.
So, we can conclude that tone, comportment, and shape are not outside of the modernizing processes. It does not simply end at the inorganic (the attire) but fills up and out the organic.
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ZOMG NSFW WARNING OMG HOWE DARE U COMPROMISE MY CRIMINAL BROWSING BEHAVIOR AT WORK I CAN ONLY LOOK AT SCANDELOUS WEBSITES IF THEY DONT HAVE TITTIES ON THEM WHILE IM SUPPOSSD TO BE DOING WERK OMG HOW DAAAAAAAAAAAAARE YOU
wow, #1 beat me to it.
put a LINK to this, IDIOT. its the definition of NSFW!
either way-another example of random, pointless idiotic CHARLES post.
fucking stop, please.
unless you truly are retarded, and dont care that people in this city hate you.
Plus, even though it has both genders with full frontal nudity, it's about a serious subject and Charles will enjoy the themes.
Oh geez would you please haul yourself into the 21st century, Charles.... Do you read anything contemporary (besides porn) so you know how American English is constructed?
And I'm echoing the familiar refrain: Who cares what you think about women????
Huh? Charles, the photo is of a beautiful young woman exposing her breasts. I'm not lauging, I'm drooling. No more needs to be said.
You seem unable to change and stopping yourself from seeming like a creep in some of your posts.
There is no higher calling, or greater use, for rendering to print the labyrinthine exhortations of esoteric philosophy and sociocultural commentary than when put in humble service, expounding upon the evolution of aesthetic mores and relations of power to prurience, in endless quest for the elusive root of all truth: beauty.
Thank you, Charles.
p.s. Nice boobies too.
Your thesis that the organic body is also shaped by modernity is interesting, but you did not offer any argument to lead you to this conclusion.
What were bodies like before modernity? How is this Swazi woman's body different from one that existed in pre-modernity? Why do you believe bodies are different now? Less manual labor?
Please elaborate.
Thanks!
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