I don’t wanna feel Blue anymore...
So the first project I got at my new job is Girls Next Door which is a show centered around the Playboy mansion and its 4 residents, but mostly just HH's three blonde girlfriends.
At first I was like "This really sucks!" But soon I got over it. I mean I'm always trying to make something out of anything. I think it may actually be the things you dread that you can learn from the most. Though it seemed like this show is really dumb there's always something to be learned. Most of the time it wasn't the show itself, but rather that I'm incurably curious and even a single mention of some subject can lead me to get interested in it. I mean in that one episode where they got to NY I read at least 5 wiki articles - Cony Island, sideshow, mustard... And the episode about the wedding in Vegas helped me learn that white weddings were introduced by queen Victoria, codpiece appeared because at the time men's hose were two separate legs and bikini borrowed the name from the Bikini Atoll, where post-war testing on the atomic bomb had begun on July 1, 1946. I can get into anything.
But this was more of a side dish. The most important thing was that this show really challenged my feministic views. I mean I never really knew much about Hugh Hefner but I have to say he's quite a character. The guy's 87 and still kicking. He got married last year. To a 26-year old. From a feminist point of view he's pretty much created a whole empire based on objectifying women but that's just one way looking at it.
L. L. Clover wrote in his 1974 treatise Evil Spirits Intellectualism and Logic that Playboy encouraged young men to view themselves as "pleasure-seeking individuals for whom sex is fun and women are play things." You can't argue that. But, you know, there were always women willing to become objectified. And looking at Hefner I can't hate him at all. He treats his women very well. I'd actually say he's a kind of a gentleman. Not my kind, but yeah. Just like Dr. Kelso you have to think in terms of him being the product of a very different era.
As for the girls it was hard. I find Bridget pretty ridiculous because she looks 40 and acts 17 but it's not like I hate her. Kendra was the most annoying one. She's basically very shallow, egoistic and acts like a redneck but there were moments when she was pretty funny. And Holly... I guess I actually liked her in a way. She's pretty smart and she seemed very genuine in her feelings towards HH. Obviously I find their priorities very messed up but then I was always interested in things I don't understand.
I only did 7 episodes out of 20 but it was more than enough for me. I think it was a pretty interesting first assignment but I'm also kinda relieved I graduated from it.
At first I was like "This really sucks!" But soon I got over it. I mean I'm always trying to make something out of anything. I think it may actually be the things you dread that you can learn from the most. Though it seemed like this show is really dumb there's always something to be learned. Most of the time it wasn't the show itself, but rather that I'm incurably curious and even a single mention of some subject can lead me to get interested in it. I mean in that one episode where they got to NY I read at least 5 wiki articles - Cony Island, sideshow, mustard... And the episode about the wedding in Vegas helped me learn that white weddings were introduced by queen Victoria, codpiece appeared because at the time men's hose were two separate legs and bikini borrowed the name from the Bikini Atoll, where post-war testing on the atomic bomb had begun on July 1, 1946. I can get into anything.
But this was more of a side dish. The most important thing was that this show really challenged my feministic views. I mean I never really knew much about Hugh Hefner but I have to say he's quite a character. The guy's 87 and still kicking. He got married last year. To a 26-year old. From a feminist point of view he's pretty much created a whole empire based on objectifying women but that's just one way looking at it.
L. L. Clover wrote in his 1974 treatise Evil Spirits Intellectualism and Logic that Playboy encouraged young men to view themselves as "pleasure-seeking individuals for whom sex is fun and women are play things." You can't argue that. But, you know, there were always women willing to become objectified. And looking at Hefner I can't hate him at all. He treats his women very well. I'd actually say he's a kind of a gentleman. Not my kind, but yeah. Just like Dr. Kelso you have to think in terms of him being the product of a very different era.
As for the girls it was hard. I find Bridget pretty ridiculous because she looks 40 and acts 17 but it's not like I hate her. Kendra was the most annoying one. She's basically very shallow, egoistic and acts like a redneck but there were moments when she was pretty funny. And Holly... I guess I actually liked her in a way. She's pretty smart and she seemed very genuine in her feelings towards HH. Obviously I find their priorities very messed up but then I was always interested in things I don't understand.
I only did 7 episodes out of 20 but it was more than enough for me. I think it was a pretty interesting first assignment but I'm also kinda relieved I graduated from it.
