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Okay, okay... so here's something I was thinking about today because I was cleaninging my room and jammin' to some old school Brittany Spears ((euw)) haha yes, I'm ashamed, but anyways, that's besides the point...
Since Brittany Spear's rise to pop icon status, there has been a reemergence of the "sexualized adolescent". This is no new phenomenom. There is just something incredibly exciting to society about a "girl next door" supposedly unaware of her innate sexual allure. As members of today's society, our eyes and minds find that this minute sexual aspect stands out amond all the other elements provided...
However, who is being exploited? to exploit means to use something for one's own advantage. In that case, the supposed exploitation of the figure is being used as her biggest asset. While the idea of the "gaze" ((the viewing of the object of the beholder's desire)) has traditionally been directed at women and is to be avoided and reprimanded, this performer both allows and uses the gaze as her strongest tool. The issue that emerges is that of what is real, the person or the role, and who is being manipulated, the performer... or the viewer...
Think about it...
Since Brittany Spear's rise to pop icon status, there has been a reemergence of the "sexualized adolescent". This is no new phenomenom. There is just something incredibly exciting to society about a "girl next door" supposedly unaware of her innate sexual allure. As members of today's society, our eyes and minds find that this minute sexual aspect stands out amond all the other elements provided...
However, who is being exploited? to exploit means to use something for one's own advantage. In that case, the supposed exploitation of the figure is being used as her biggest asset. While the idea of the "gaze" ((the viewing of the object of the beholder's desire)) has traditionally been directed at women and is to be avoided and reprimanded, this performer both allows and uses the gaze as her strongest tool. The issue that emerges is that of what is real, the person or the role, and who is being manipulated, the performer... or the viewer...
Think about it...