Wednesday, May 26, 2010
I Can't Believe You Laugh At This: The Edition Of Just Why I Want To Live In A Cave
This is a guest post by Jaded 16
http://www.womanist-musings.com/2010/05/i-can-believe-you-laugh-at-this-edition.htmlJaded16 is a Radical Feminist from India. She writes a humour blog 'Oi With The Poodles Already', attempting to make her world a little woman-friendly using healthy doses of irony and sarcasm to de-condition the Indian masses. It is at times like these when she loses all her sense of humour and starts looking for a rock big enough to live under.
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The dance performance is set to an 'item-number' genre of songs (These songs are typically identified with courtesans and prostitutes), where the contestant is dressed as a woman first and then quickly changes back to his usual masculine self. As it is a 'second-grade' song, this gender subversion is ignored. The audience looks at the dancing prowess of the contestant, how effortlessly he dances like a woman, how equally effortlessly he changes to his shiny silver costume, giving out a ton of dude-ittude one moment, shifting to feminine seduction next. This can possibly be an extremely warped version of Woolf's Orlando on an alternate universe. You can hear people cheering, the judges laughing, while I seethed in fury from my position in front of the T.V.
