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...haven't, though I suppose I'm familiar with it. When I'm on line in the supermarket, I always see on the covers of TV Guide these big, buxom blondes and then it says something about WWF. So I imagine an element of sexiness is combined with violence...
This is one way to sanction the desire to look and to see violence and to see people hurt. And also, it has this strange soap opera edge to it. So it seems to appeal across different lines in society. There's a narrative element to it, not just violence...
...think it can be seen both ways: as very conservative and also as a subversive element in society. The idea seems to be that you go home and practice these moves on your little brother. So in a way it shows you how to unleash this real anger that you have inside of you when your brother says something nasty to you--now youve got this move, a body-slam or something. In some ways it sanctions that sort of violence, but in other ways it's an attempt to focus your energy into being the spectator instead...
...there was very little of a repressive element for them to feel a need to react to. So part of the shift towards the comedy of manners was due to the shift towards the home, which necessarily eliminated these fantastic--as in fantastical--torture devices...
...free admision for black men arriving before 11 p.m." Do we really want to see social events with different prices for people of different races? I think racially-defined clubs, of which the 'Asian-American Christian Fellowship' is another example, create distrust in our society. Differential pricing takes the element of segregation to a worrying new level, and I wonder if it's even legal. Instead, I encourage Harvard students to welcome all kinds of other students into their social lives...