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From: cs1@oddjob.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Re: Madonna, role model
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Date: Sat, 15-Jun-85 17:14:39 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 15 17:14:39 1985
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Reply-To: cs1@oddjob.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart)
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Is Madonna only a "one-dimensional blatantly sexual being" ?  I would say she
is exploitive, independent, amoral, anti-authority, shrewd, self-confident,
culturally aware (CF the imagery in the "virgin" video to that in "Une Semaine
de Bonte" by the dadaist collagist Max Ernst), and highly intelligent.  Her
sexuality is SO blatant that it's a PARODY of blatant sexuality.  Can't you
tell?  By mixing external blatant feminine sexuality with clearly masculine 
levels of self-confidence, she explodes a cultural tendency to make feminine
sexuality something to be ashamed of, covered up and subordinated to male 
sexuality.  I think what frightens parents more than her sexuality is her 
anarchistic, amoral, anti-authority attitude...the will to make chumps out
of yuppies, suburbanites and the moral majority.  I think what frightens
parents more than her sexuality is the nihilism behind her attitude (i.e. don't
take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive anyway). I don't
think that she is necessarily a bad influence--I mean, if a young woman is 
more seriously influenced by Madonna than her own parents, then I hardly think
that Madonna is to blame.  

                                   omigod, it's THAT 

                                   Cheryl Stewart

-- 

There's one kind of favor I'll ask of you: 

  Just see that my grave is kept clean.