Monday, February 23, 2009

Dreams do not make it real, do they?

While I was watching this video I was brought back to my youth and reminded of the videos I grew up watching. I thought about what the narrator was saying and found myself disagreeing with his message. He kept calling the women in the videos prostitutes, nymphomaniacs, and dominatrix's like that was what they really were. I kept telling my television that they were not. That they were just portraying these images because they were paid to do so by the person who was making the video. I did not watch them thinking I wanted to be like them. It was entertainment. The thought that men do make videos to attract their audience is not surprising. This is why we go to movies and watch stupid shows on television. It is all about the mighty dollar and what is going to make a lot of it for these people.
When I was a teenager I knew most rock stars were sluts and that they usually liked their women dressed in as little as possible and doing things I would not like my daughter doing today. Yet I still watched. I still cleaned my house to their music, and went to their concerts hoping to get a closer look at them in all their glory. I wonder what videos would be like in the 80's if they were made like the early ones in the 50's or was it 60's. I doubt that I would have wanted to watch them. So should we crucify the men for being smart enough to figure out what would make them the most money or secretively wish I could have been the one to think of it.

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