• schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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    19 hours ago

    I’m not at all surprised at the level of disconnect there is among Jucika fans. I should probably stop reading and commenting on these like everyone else with a lick of human understanding would.

    I’m reminding of a comment on a video of Anne Margaret’s Bye Bye Birdie. Something along the lines of, “This is when woman had class and didn’t whore themselves out,” weirdly unaware that his own childhood lust for Anne Margaret was likely triggered by her shaking her large boobs inside her sweater.

    Edit: Here she is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsQabalLI0w It’s hella fun to watch and she’s a great performer, but obviously she is selling some sexuality.

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      6 hours ago

      What part of this is sexual to you?

      The ‘large boobs’ thing isn’t gonna fly either

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      17 hours ago

      Wtf are you talking about? She shook her (perfectly average-sized) boobs for like a split second, once, toward the end of that video.

      I get that people were more prudish in those days, but characterizing that video as a woman “shaking her large boobs inside her sweater” sounds like the talk of someone who thinks literally everything a woman does is sexual. We can’t even shimmy once in a 3-minute performance without someone thinking we’re “whoring ourselves.”

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        16 hours ago

        I’m not saying Ann Margaret is whoring herself out any more or less than anyone else, just that sexuality is often part of performance, and those standards change over time. What I object is to people pretending like sexuality isn’t a factor in appeal, especially when these boomers are disparaging younger performers.

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        17 hours ago

        I literally just linked an Ann Margaret video because it is quite lovely and joyful; it is also, however, very sexy.