Ann Althouse: Bangs and Nipple
Ann Althouse has scanned some pictures of herself from the 1970s. The second one caught my eye, not just for Ann's beautiful hair and bangs, but also for her left nipple straining to poke through her chemise:
Ann's in her late '50s, so she's about 25 years-old according to the date of the picture (1976). I was just entering high school about that time, and I'm trying to remember how women presented their sexier sides back then. Nowadays on campus (circa 2006-2009), it seems deep-cleavage bustier-types of tops are de rigeur. I think young women today who normally wouldn't be pumping themselves up as "totally hot" nevertheless dress in a tone that is more expressly sexy than the girls I dated as an adolescent young man.
That said, although "tube tops" or some variation were popular back in the seventies, I think Ann captures the more wholesomely-hot look of Farrah Fawcett's 1976 superstar "red swimsuit" poster.Anyway, Ann's one of the very best bloggers out there, and I meant to do something about the really dumb attack on her last week at Media Matters (Ann's not at all dogmatically conservative as her detracters allege), but never got around to it.
Oh yeah ... commenters will please save the sexist slurs against me and this post. Althouse is a well-known breast-blogging specialist herself, and I'm sure she can understand the aesthetic blogginess of my current entry into the genre.
Very minor query...
ReplyDeleteProfessor you have referred to this blog as a "family blog".
You have recently commented on the suspect "values" of Family Broadcast Companies.
If my daughter is studying "Civics" in her 7th grade class.....and I recommended not only to her, but other classmates of hers that "American Power" has a good take on "conservatism" as it stands right now in our country and there is No indicator that you have to be 18 to view its content.
How do you suggest I respond to her, and her classmates, and perhaps her instructor..... questions about the blog authors obsession with another blog authors breasts(nipples, tube tops, farrah etc etc.)....as related to family values, content responsibility, and of course any hypocracy indicators that could possibly be applied not only to the "American Power" blog, but in a wider net, the entire conservative movement right now....
just a minor query presented lightly and with perceivable jest, Professor.
Cheers
Cracker: Althouse writes about breasts all the time. Society is infatuated with breasts. I communicate with Ann by e-mail, so I guess it's kind of an insider's thing to write a post on nipples.
ReplyDeleteIn any case, I'm not objectifying Ann. I'm commenting on her picture. You should read the commnents at her post.
P.S. I had a Farrah Fawcett poster on my wall when I was a teenager. Does that disqualify me from writing a post like this?
Back in the seventies, my girlfriend didn't even own a bra -- which seems to be how Miss Althouse posed.
ReplyDeleteI certainly appreciated it!
Well, most guys seem to suffer from ADS or at best their attention span is only twice as long as whatever they are hit with so girls have to deploy their assets in a shock and awe campaign.
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