Monday, December 3, 2007

a little reprive from art

so i've been noticing certain things about women that have been in my life lately, this might be true of all women, but since i do not exist as two separate persona, i can never confirm this.

you know the age old story, the bad boy comes to sweep away the good girl and they ride off into the sunset? the bad boy is corruption and the girl as purity and the corruption invades the pure (i sound like mary douglas now) but the corrupt is titillating, not just because of it's erotic nature of transgressions, but it offers the potential to clean the corruption, correct the wrong, strive towards perfection. we have such a strong culture of needing to clean the unclean, cleanliness is godliness right? we associate the polluted with the demonic and the clean with the angelic.
so if this is true, the girl then goes with the guy also as an urge to fix him to what is established to be normal, even though it is the transgression which caused the attraction in the first place. if this isn't common place, please correct me, but for me, i just see so many people trying to correct the dirtiness of others, striving for them to achieve some higher normalness that society dictates.
(as stated in a case which an african american woman was asked to change her hair to a more straighter style thus being more inline with a standard of aesthetic more representational of her working environment, a standard look for european woman hairstyles, but not african. thus pointing out the standard of normal beauty is completely western centric)
this eventually lead people to be unhappy, because we try to constantly correct each other.
now this isn't what i wanted to talk about, it was just a blurt.
i find it in some women i know, especially once case in particular, the reverse occurs. it is the holy man who is attracted to demonic vixen. now, i am not the holy man i speak of, i'm just talking about the people that are attracted by women i associate with. i am constantly hearing about these guys who thinks there is a "good side" to them, instead of appreciating them for who they are. these men think inside the tough exterior, there's a fluffy inside that is all good and nice and they are the holy men who can unlock the angel inside. too bad they soon find out what is inside is probably much worse than the outer persona (and we all wear our masks everyday) thus they get burned when they get too close. but there's one benefit from it, i hear about them and i get a good laugh....
haha

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