Sex goddesses are not what they used to be
Richard B. writes:
New York Magazine has a photo spread of actress Lindsay Lohan doing a Marilyn Monroe style photo shoot.
She has a naked body she is willing to show the world, but she looks like a “dead fish” compared to the sensuous, seductive and playful Marilyn. The cultural bombardment of sex, drugs, and narcissistic indulgence has eroded any feelings she and her generation may have for living. Her eyes show the emptiness within her.
LA replies:
Less than two years ago she was utterly charming, winning and fresh when she starred in that movie comedy romance “Just My Luck,” about a young woman in New York who has bad luck, until she finally has good luck.
And now she’s a burned out shell, and not yet 22 years old. Even her hair looks brittle.
Ophelia, she’s ‘neath the window
For her I feel so afraid
On her twenty-second birthday
She already is an old maid.
To her death is quite romantic
She wears an iron vest
Her profession’s her religion
Her sin is her lifelessness.
And though her eyes are fixed upon
Noah’s Great Rainbow
She spends her time peaking into
Desolation Row.
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Rachael S. writes:
Marilyn Monroe led to Lindsay Lohan. Marilyn may have seemed playful and sensuous, but the “sexy” way she lived her life apparently made her so empty inside that she killed herself. Lindsay is treading water in the sewage the classier Sex Goddesses helped create.
LA replies:
Also, Lohan is not even a sex goddess type.
Rachael S. replies:
You wrote:
“Also, Lohan is not even a sex goddess type.”
Yes, she is not. I think an hourglass figure is a prerequisite for “sex goddess”, like Monica Bellucci or Jennifer Connelly before she lost weight. But I suppose Charlize Theron is considered sexy, and she is tall and leggy, not an hourglass.
I just wish these women would cover up in public! How about a bra and a set of sleeves on that Oscar’s dress? No more playboy spreads, ladies please! (Hugh Heffner is gross!!)
I am a “girl” and I have my vanities and all, and have worn skimpy clothing. After all that vanity and posturing, I have discovered it is just better to cover up. A culture of female virtue would disable a lot of the ills that we are dealing with at the moment; it would force men to be more virtuous in return, in order to get a woman’s attention.
But I suppose I am tilting at windmills. The toothpaste is out of the tube and it isn’t getting back in. Welcome to the Boob-pocalypse.
LA replies:
“The toothpaste is out of the tube and it isn’t getting back in. Welcome to the Boob-pocalypse.”
LOL.
What an image. “And then at the final battle between good and evil at Armageddon, there appeared in the sky … ”
I happened to see just now, as I walked past a newspaper store, an ad for New York magazine, showing the big photo of Lohan got up like Monroe. It was just strange. Again, Lohan has never been known as a sex goddes type, she’s a slender, even scrawny Irish-looking gal with freckles. With the outfit she was wearing, her skinny shoulders, and her brittle horrible-looking blonde-dye job, there was nothing sexy, let alone Monroe-esque, about her. On top of all that, how could anyone think of her as being sexy, with all the mental and substance abuse problems she’s been having lately? The whole thing is beyond sad and pathetic. The culture is far gone.
Oh my gosh, what have I done? I’ve made critical comments about an emotionally vulnerable female. Now I expect e-mails telling me I should lay off Lindsay Lohan.
Posted by Lawrence Auster at February 19, 2008 01:14 PM | Send