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Super Bowl MVP: Man on a Wire

February 6, 2012 By 6 Comments

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  1. Marcus Williams says:
    February 6, 2012 at 1:09 pm

    At first, I thought, “What the fuck is the guy who needs more cowbell doing jumping on wire?” Then I realized it’s was obviously a metaphor for patriarchy.

    The wire is patriarchy, and Cowbell Dude is men, trying to stay on top of it. Several times, he almost falls, but patriarchy always bounces him back up, to a position even more elevated than Madonna. Seen from below – the oppressed view – the wire itself practically disappears from view. Madonna, of course, is women. She unwittingly encourages the whole system by singing her encouragement, and bouncing up and down suggestively with the wire between her legs, while clad in a skirt that’s practically dripping with phallic symbols. The guys on the stairs are…let’s say critics of the system, jerking side to side in disapproval and refusing to take part.

    Obvious, right?

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  2. jameseq says:
    February 6, 2012 at 9:12 pm

    Big Hair, Dress, and Some Rocking Moves.

    Did someone say ‘dress on a man’ :-)

    Madonna put on a hell of a halftime show.
    The men in the Ancient Egyptian costumes were wearing a skirt based on the Ancient Egyptian Shendyt that this General is wearing http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GeneralTjahapimu-StatueTorso_MetropolitanMuseum.png

    The acrobat in the clip is wearing the one shoulder dress, which appears to be based on the Ancient Greek Exomis
    http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Young_man_exomis_Musei_Capitolini_MC892.jpg
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exomis

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    Hopefully I will live to see the day when men will feel free to wear the clothes of their masculine male warrior ancestors, and not just on Halloween or for a theatrical event.
    While I and the other martyrs seed the minds of other men by exposing them to the clothing of the masculine male warrior ancestors.
    I concede that the chances of a Messiah arising, and sparking a groundup clothing revolution are slim. As, even a powerful and well connected designer like Jean Paul Gaultier was not able to resuscitate Men’s clothing. So i believe the more likely avenue for the rebirth of Men’s clothing, will be the more usual historical method – the setting of clothing fashion by a Men’s Court, and nonelite men copying the fashion.

    The last court to set men’s fashion was the court of early 20th Century CE Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor which is why men wear not a hard starched collar, but a soft collar with their(I aint wearing that junk ever again) dismal business/ lounge suits (and what a failed piece of ‘formal’wear is the business suit). The lounge suit is neither functional nor decorative – note that Western Woman upon returning enmass to the middle and upperclass workplace in the 1970s took one half look at the lounge suit, and did a bodyswerve around it.
    So inelegant is it, that even these men with little apparent interest in clothing noticed.

    (FIFA and World Presidents wearing scarfs like a stole)
    http://bit.ly/xVTQ2m
    http://bit.ly/x5xwCT
    http://bit.ly/zTjQsv
    Im sure that is why they wore the scarfs around the neck in a ceremonial manner, like a Stole (a scarflike garment that a priest wears) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stole_%28vestment%29

    Currently the courts are mini courts, dependent directly on popularity for their power. My own thinking is that once sufficient power has accreted to make either China the lead world power, and or the EU becomes a powerful superstate with its unelected powerful Commissionars. I personally expect in short order the elite governing men to quickly abandon the business suit, for grand clothing which heralds their power and status

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    Grrreat hat Marcus, gives you a masculine dignity
    I love it

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