The End.

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Finito*

Lady Gaga’s dress sense is to say the least...different. She dresses up in arb designs. Funnily enough I noticed that unlike some other female musicians, Lady Gaga has humble breasts and her cleavage is rarely in your face. 

“Bodies do not conform, bodies which flout the conventions of their culture & go without the appropriate clothes are subversive of the most basic social codes & risk exclusion, scorn or ridicule” (Entwistle, 2000:7)

And Lady Gaga has been scorned by many mothers who are wondering if Lady Gaga is a good role model to their girls.

In her latest Alejandro music video you can see an existing intertextuality between the music video and the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The actress Jane Russel receives abundant attention from male athletes. (Sturken, 2001:83) During Russel’s singing your eyes follow the athletes while they flex their muscles. The men seem unaware of being watched.  Contrary to Gerbers popular theory, for once the men in the film and music video becomes the surveyed, stripped from being the surveyor.

In other instances she allows the men in her music videos to become the objects. And it is not sure wherever it is to appeal to females or maybe to gays as well. (Judith butler) In other instances you can barely define her from the males. In the Alejandro music video they show Lady Gaga in a popular sex position, where she takes the position of the man. 

Isn’t this maybe the problem that parents have with Lady Gaga, it questions sexuality. Susan Bordo’s Gay Men’s Revenge (1999:22) explains that “dual marketing advertisements attempt to appeal simultaneously to both gay and straight consumers, by employing images that captivate different sexual gazes.”

Lady Gaga employs this shamelessly in her music videos. In the post modern world where being anything other than straight is slowly becoming acceptable, shouldn’t people be able to decide how they want to live their lifestyle from any age?

So ends my small dictatorship as a bootiful blonde, I will stay a blonde for the time being. I wasted my time at the hairdresser for a few hours. (I wish they had a drive-thru service for coloring hair)  

and for the last time...

BLONDE JOKE OF THE DAY

Q:Whats black and fuzzy and hangs from the ceiling?

A: A blond electrician

pohpohpohker face

The latest (seemingly) blonde bombshell on the scene has to be Lady Gaga. She is like the new exotic parrot in the cage of pigeons. Daring is what she does. Is she a feminist or hermaphrodite or just making the best use she can of her fame. She dresses men in fish net stockings. 

In some instances in her music videos she is Gerber’s (Men Act, Women Appear) exact example. She allows the men in her music videos to survey her, but also make also allows the audience that watches her become surveyors. (Gerber 1972:46) In some music videos like Bad Romance she allows herself to seem subservient to the man. Making her seem like she obeys his wishes as patriarchy would like to preach. 

In her music video Poker Face and as you can see in the screen shot, you almost see a re-enactment of something similar to the old European paintings we know so well. She looks us in a beautiful dress, where her ‘lover’ seems to have her attention but she is actually looking at the audience.

The first time I saw the Bad Romance music video, I instantly though that she is a perfect example of Critical studies, because so many theories can be applied to her. I think that Lady Gaga is more than just a dumb blonde...

And for the second last time...

BLONDE JOKE OF THE DAY

A  Russian, an American, and a Blonde were talking one day.   The  Russian said, 'We were the first in space!'   

  The  American said, 'We were the first on the moon!'   
 The  Blonde said, 'So what? We're going to be the first on the sun!'   The Russian and the American looked at each other and shook their  heads.   'You  can't land on the sun, you idiot! You'll burn up!' said the Russian.   
 To  which the Blonde replied, 'We're not stupid, you know. We're going at  night!'

I wanna be popular

Most girls had at least one Barbie. If you did not have one, you had to be a tomboy and like fixing cars right? She was the first doll to have breasts that was marketed towards children, and she was not even allowed nipples. And she only got a belly button in 2000 (Wood, 2002). Barbie was created with the vision for little girls to look like her. No wonder people are so obsessed with being thin and having the perfect waist. I mean Barbie and my mom is the same age. And even though my mom looks absolutely amazing for her age...she just doesn’t compare. (At least my mom is real) Oh, and Barbie is actually based on a sex magazine.

Apparently Barbie won’t even be able to stand, and she has a pretty huge head for such a little neck. Her waist is too small to have intestines. (But taking that she has a empty head, they could probably fit everything in there) This is sure someone to look up to, taking that she would about 2 metres.

Barbie is beautiful has a lot friends has an awesome boyfriend. She can have any socially accepted career...or did I miss the Plumber Barbie, Lesbian Barbie, or Jail warden Barbie?

You can wear everything Barbie, you can sleep Barbie. Yet they do not promote the heels that only Barbie can wear to little girls.

At least I would prefer Barbie to a Bratz character. They don’t even have friggin noses.

BLONDE JOKE OF THE DAY

 

A blonde, a brunette and a redhead are running from the cops. They hide on a potato farm. They crawl into some potato bags. The first cop pokes the bag with the brunette in it. She says, "Meow." The cop confirms that it is just a cat. The second cop pokes the bag with the redhead in it. She says, "Woof." The cop says that it is just a dog. The third cop pokes the bag with the blonde in it. She say in her sweetest voice, "Potato."

Ja Wohl

I have an accent. It is hard to miss. I have been Russian, Australian, British, American and most predominantly...German. With my beautiful blonde locks, my striking blue eyes, my fair (ish) skin, I even look German.

When people think about German or Germany, they sadly think Hitler (or Oktoberfest). But there is another name that has great influence, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. He wrote about the uebermensch, or the ‘super’ man. Someone who has blue eyes, blonde hair (damn, Hitler again, why do we keep thinking of him, and he had BROWN hair and BROWN eyes). To be honest I always thought “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” was an essay and I wanted to use it, but it is a novel, so it will take some time to read through it. In the meantime, I would start thinking about Barbie, the blonde that girls cannot get enough of...

But for today....

BLONDE JOKE OF THE DAY and this one is not for kids

Bubbles! Put down that stupid octopus and help us with this stupid octopus!

The famous poet Goethe once wrote:

Beware of her fair hair for she excels

All women in the magic of her locks;

And when she winds them round a young man's neck

She will not ever let him free again.

At a friend’s house yesterday, we put on the XBox to play guitar hero (yes we are funny like that). But the guy just wanted to show my boyfriend this fighting game. Funnily enough they both chose the blonde girls, until I made a comment about it. Afterward my boyfriend took extra care to not take a blonde girl.

As a lass, I enjoyed watching the Power Puff Girls just as any kid. Secretly I really liked bubbles, the blonde haired, slightly stupid, sweet one. But because my stepsister liked her as well, I claimed I liked Buttercup, the hardcore I’ll-beat-your-face-up one. In the end, a million years later I realized that I liked Bubbles more because I can associate with her. She talks to squirrels, tries to color in the world.  Buttercup was what I would like to be, somebody that you don’t mess with. And someone that doesn’t get hurt. 

even over weekends there has to be the:

BLONDE JOKE OF THE DAY

A blonde decided she needed something new and different for a winter hobby. She went to the bookstore and bought every book she could find on ice fishing.

For weeks she read and studied, hoping to become an expert in the field. Finally she decided she knew enough and out she went for her first ice fishing trip. She carefully gathered up and packed all the tools and equipment needed for the excursion. Each piece of equipment had its own special place in her kit.

When she got to the ice, she found a quiet little area, placed her padded stool and carefully laid out her tools.

Just as she was about to make her first cut into the ice, a booming voice from the sky bellowed, "There are no fish under the ice!!"

Startled, the blonde grabbed up all her belongings, moved further along the ice, poured some hot chocolate from her thermos, and started to cut a new hole.

Again the voice from above bellowed, "There are no fish under the ice!!"

Amazed, the blonde was not quite sure what to do as this certainly was not covered in any of her books. She packed up her gear and moved to the far side of the ice. Once there, she stopped for a few moments to regain her calm. Then she was extremely careful to set everything up perfectly--tools in the right place, chair positioned just so. Just as she was about to cut this new hole, the voice came again.

"There are no fish under the ice!!"

Petrified, the blonde looked skyward and asked, "Is that You, Lord?"

The voice boomed back, "NO THIS IS THE MANAGER OF THE SKATING RINK!"

speckled eggs

So all pretty girls are sluts right? I mean they can get ANY guy they could possible want. Especially those pretty girls with a lot of guy friends and a little black book under her bed, and a few notches on her bedpost.

I am currently reading a text by Devendra Singh as basis for my next few blogs. It is called: Mating Strategies of Young Women: Role of Physical Attractiveness. 

So I would like to do some speculating in this post.

Might there be truth in that more beautiful are more likely to cheat or get divorced. What is the reason behind it? Maybe it is not because the woman is beautiful that she cheats, but the jealousy of a partner. There can be much debated around this. Wouldn’t an ‘unattractive’ person cheat if they had the chance? It means that someone else gave them the opportunity to feel empowered and sexually attractive?

Is the difference maybe between the ‘unattractive’ and beautiful woman?

The beautiful person is spoiled for choice, and because she is more likely to be hit on by a man, she can choose when she feels that all her needs are not satisfied.

The unattractive person however feels flattered when there is a new person giving attention to her. It gives her the power to believe that she has a choice and she does not have to spend her life with one person just because it is believed that she won’t ever in her lifetime find another man again.

Maybe they are not that different at all, if one speculates it like I just did, both parties will cheat. 

BLONDE JOKE OF THE DAY: