I think you're very right DGrant, but then again, there doesn't seem to be a lot of sophisticated or nuanced discussion around here. Sure, Michael Jackson is a public figure and open for discussion, but where is the insight? Where is something that hasn't been said before, much better? There are really smart people who have written some brilliant analyses of Michael Jackson and the issues of race, gender and abuse. They don't post here tho.
If only some of the more dismissive people in this thread who do post here had read Sontag's "On Photography," which cautions about making decisions and comments based on images that capture less than one second of a person's existence.
For example, let's apply the same rigid and cruel analysis to MusicalFanDukie's icon in the style that was used to look at Tiff's, shall we? I mean, it's right there, for all of us to see and veritably invites comment.
Where to begin? Let's see. First of all, MusicalFanDukie has what the folks at datalounge have come to call "a major case of Gay Face." There is of course, absolutely nothing wrong with that. Many very successful people have Gay Face. Your Clay Aikens, your Kevin Spaceys. At least according to the datalounge folks. Just look at MusicalFanDukie's eye area, especially what for all intents and purposes look like a pair of brows that have been tweezed to near Lady Bunny levels. G-A-Y F-A-C-E. Again, not that there's anything wrong with that. And no actual indication of whether or not a person is gay. The way Aiken and Spacey are not.
He also, in these waning days of Atkins-Mania, suffers from the datalounge-named "Carb Face." For celebrity examples of Carb Face, one needs look no further than superstar Ben "Whatever the Title Was of that Failed Xmas movie that wasn't 'Christmas With The Kranks'" Affleck. And Kevin Spacey too, sometimes.
Then there's the hat. The placement of which the less said the better. Yes, we know, keepin' it real, ya'll. He seems to put the "ig" in wigga. In some ways it is a fine compliment to the Target Cherokee checked plaid shirt with that collar that refused to stand up after its first washing. And really, if you were being modeled by MusicalFanDukie, would you be able to stand up either? I didn't think so.
And the choker! It says, "I'm just like everybody else! I do things only after I have seen others do them! I don't want to stand out! I blend in!"
Unfortunately with carb stuffed gay faced wiggas whose eyebrows are ready to arch beneath a beehive wig at amateur night at Lucky Chengs, it's hard to blend in.
I hope honesty doesn't offend you, MusicalFanDukie.
Updated On: 12/23/04 at 12:26 PM
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