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...SHIGETA, A LOS ANGELES CITY OFFICIAL, RULING THAT NUDE SHOWER DANCING AT A LOS ANGELES NIGHTCLUB DISCRIMINATED AGAINST WHEELCHAIR-BOUND STRIPPERS, WHO THEORETICALLY COULDN'T FIT IN THE CLUB'S SHOWER STALL
...live up in the Mather highrise, and the view is great. Too great. I can see into open windows all over campus. Unfortunately, there's this guy who reads his Crimson in the nude. I won't say what House this guy's in to spare him. This fellow is in one of my classes. Should I tell him that people in Mather are seeing the Crimson's full frontal page? Embarassed in Mather...
What you see, what confronts and monopolizes your gaze, is a woman on the floor in the foreground. Her bulk is colossal, almost comic. She simply blows away the decorum of the nude -- the ideal body re-formed by thought. She isn't nude but aggressively naked, a biological mountain: swollen thighs and belly, pubic ravine, breasts like boulders, their stretch marks and blotches half- echoing the surface texture of the girl's cloth. The strength of her presence isn't due just to her depicted fatness but to the way the image burgeons from dense paint, a heavy mass...
Ruskin would not, however, have approved of Freud's nudes, any more than some feminists do today. These figures, splayed under the inquisitorial electric light and the downward gaze of the artist, are the mainstay of his work, and the fierceness with which they reject the softening conventions of the "studio nude" has provoked a bumper crop of balderdash about Freud's supposed misogyny and sexism. (Freud's own riposte, in a recent interview, was terse: "I think the idea of misogyny is a stimulant to feminists, and it's rather like anti-Semites looking for Jewish noses everywhere...
...worst days came any time I had to have people take their clothes off and be humiliated and reduce themselves down to livestock. That's what tore me up the most. It was the worst experience in my life." Embeth Davidtz agrees. She was in one of these scenes, nude, her head shaved. "It's not like a love scene where you disrobe and there's something in the moment. Here I'm standing there like a plucked chicken, nothing but skin and bone." That is to say, stripped of human dignity...