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        Lovesong  57, Female, Nebraska, USA - 5 entries
    04
    Aug 2012
    8:10 AM -05
       

    http://www.videojug.com/film/london-the-london-eye

    Tags: culture, london eye, society., travel
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        RonPrice  79, Male, Canada - 60 entries
    12
    Feb 2012
    4:08 AM AEST
       

    BARBIE DOLL

    The popular doll, Barbie, artifact of female representation and identity, of depiction and posturing of women, has evoked a steady stream of critical attention since her debut in 1959.�� I have not been that conscious of this critical attention involved as I have been since 1959 with issues relating to my education, my career, my family and my religion. If millions of pre-pubescent girls have lived imaginatively and vicariously through Barbie this has not really concerned me.� The world is burgeoning with issues and this was one far removed from my flight path.� In 1959 I joined the Baha’i Faith and the agenda that has concerned me has only on rare occasions and only very peripherally involved the barbie doll. –Ron Price with thanks to “The Wonder of Barbie: Popular Culture and the Making of Female Identity,” Essays in Philosophy: A Biannual Journal, Vol.4, No.1, January 2003.
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    The essence of feminine beauty
    is vigilance and artificiality.
    Men may be expected to enhance
    their appearance, but women are
    supposed to transform themselves.
    �
    Who is the fairest of them all.
    The mirror replies, “Before I
    answer that, may I suggest an
    alpha-hydroxy lotion?…this
    Revlon spray?…this lipstick?
    �
    Where have you been Barbie?
    You popped into my life when
    I visited those kids in Whyalla
    and when I went shopping more
    than usual between marriages.
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    Images of maleness were many
    and varied: my dad, grandfather,
    uncle, those westerns on TV back
    in the fifties and all those old chaps
    in Baha’i history--unquestionably--
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    subtlely, insinuating themselves into
    my imaginative faculty on cold
    Canadian evenings; Jim Gibb
    reading poems, John Dixon’s
    quiet kindness,� Douglas Martin’s
    clever use of words, so many
    ordinarily ordinary men, artifacts
    of identity, of depiction and posturing:
    nothing like Dick, his relentless jollity,
    his banklike security and his always
    impeccable decorator and merry picnic.
    �
    Ron Price
    2 October 2006
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        jonni  39, Male, United Kingdom - First entry!
    19
    Jul 2007
    9:05 AM GMT
       

    Jockstraps...Whilst studying in Germany, I have noticed that European guys don't ever wear jockstraps when they play sport. Why is it only we English / Americans only seem to wear jockstraps? They are far more healthy than other undergear for sport.
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