----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Braver
To: CF-Community
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 2:30 PM
Subject: Re:Superbowl Half-time clip?
IIRC in Polynesian cultures, before the "Christian" missionaries arrived and messed with everybody's heads, women routinely went bare-breasted, and this was entirely normal. In fact, there was no titillation <no pun intended> from seeing them, since it wasn't "wrong".
-Ben
> I'm really sorry about your mother. The schizophrenia about women's
> breasts is even worse than you suggest though, actually... Although it
> is apparently ok to have much much cleavage in advertising and
> television, the thing about source of milk is also a taboo, and
> breast-feeding women have been arrested for refusing to do so in the
> ladies' room (sitting on the toilet, presumably?) If I were a Freudian
> I might attribute this to early weaning... as it is, I see the
> conflicted thinking but I don't attempt to diagnose it. It exists in
> women also, so it isn't just a guy thing.
>
> Dana
>
> >Yes, Sue's organization sponsored a play called the Strong Breast
> Revolution
> >which we went to see. The (female) players wore no tops. The idea
> IIRC was
> >that society has two main views of women's breasts: One as sexualized
> and
> >commidified and one as source of mother's milk. The play was about
> allowing
> >breasts to be seen in a third way which is a normal and beautiful
> part of
> >the body. It was great because it allowed for the women acting to
> explore
> >their feelings and experiences in depth and take you along for the
> ride.
> >Certainly brought out feelings about my own mother's death due to
> breast
> >cancer. Two taboos in one there eh? Death AND breasts!
> >Patrick
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: dana tierney
> >
> >
> >
> >the play?
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: dana tierney
> >>
> >>I think I will become a Breast Ambassador :)
> >>
> >>-ME--> :-) go for it!
> >>
> >>Though I could not identify the photograph on the main page. Very
> Georgia
> >>O'Keefe :) Make you wonder what that maple leaf is hiding... lol.
> >>
> >>-ME--> :-)
> >>
> >>SHe does seem to be talking about the same thing I am though.
> >>
> >>-ME--> Yep. I wish you could have seen the play, it was very good.
> Don't
> >>forget to see Calendar Girls!
> >>
> >>Dana
> >>
> >>
> >>Outbound email scanned for virus'.
> >>
> >
> >
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