Comments on: Projection

By: Maggie McNeill

Maggie McNeill — Mon, 30 May 2011 05:25:39 +0000

Thank you, sweetie!

By: Kelly James

Kelly James — Mon, 30 May 2011 03:23:19 +0000

“….use us as scapegoats for the ugliness they see in themselves by projecting their own perversions and flaws onto us and then persecuting us in order to destroy the unwilling representatives of their own sins.”

nice one Momma…very succinct…

By: Sailor Barsoom

Sailor Barsoom — Sun, 29 May 2011 19:59:34 +0000

We’re all familiar with the idea of typecasting: an actor plays a particular role, say Superman, and from then on, no matter what role he plays, the audience is yanked out of the narrative and, instead of seeing the cowboy, the astronaut, or Richard Nixon, they see Superman on a horse, Superman in a space suit, or Superman saying that he is not a crook.

Whores have been typecast, and unfortunately, they’ve been typecast into roles most of them have never played. A harlot is seen as either dirty low-down scum who represents all that is nasty and shallow in society, or an oppressed victim who needs to be rescued whether she likes it (knows it) or not.

In my long story, I have Anzu James remark that “…it was kind of exciting, being able to do things that would normally get me branded the Great Whore of Babylon, but it’s OK because hey, the Program. I’m going to have to go back to being a good girl again. Well…” I took a bite of egg. “Mostly a good girl.”

By: Gorbachev

Gorbachev — Sun, 29 May 2011 17:59:16 +0000

BTW, Maggie:

http://human-stupidity.com/stupid-dogma/teenage-sexuality/teenage-sexuality-the-immense-complexity-of-local-laws-state-lines-and-international-travel?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Human-Stupidity+%28Human+Stupidity%3A+Irrationality%2C+Self+Deception%29

By: Maggie McNeill

Maggie McNeill — Sun, 29 May 2011 14:47:27 +0000

There’s a big difference between “object” in the sense of “object of my affection” and in the sense of “inanimate object”. The phrase “sex object” actually means the former, but feminists love to pretend it means the latter. And when a person whom one does not know is reduced to nothing other than a symbol, with her feelings entirely ignored and disregarded, it’s most certainly the latter.

By: Gawaine Ross

Gawaine Ross — Sun, 29 May 2011 14:39:32 +0000

Dear Maggie,
Your comment is thought provoking. I think people make objects out to people all the time. Osama Bin Laden was an object of terror just as Dick Cheney is. The new mother is an ‘object’ to an infant, namely the good breast. The woman I love is the object of my desire, and as for actresses and actors, they are objects of modeling behavior, whether they want to be or not, and this goes for athletes too. This does not necessarily mean that these “objects” are exploited by not being given fair recompense, or as steps to greater power. The word object covers a lot of ground and we must keep its political meaning apart from its psychological meaning. I know some people claim that everything is political. At this point I roll my eyes.

By: Maggie McNeill

Maggie McNeill — Sun, 29 May 2011 04:34:36 +0000

LOL!

By: Susan

Susan — Sun, 29 May 2011 04:25:39 +0000

“And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of coffee with cream and sugar.”

- Revelation 17:4-5

Revised Revised Standard Version

By: Maggie McNeill

Maggie McNeill — Sat, 28 May 2011 23:37:28 +0000

Exactly, Scorch. Doing a nude scene is the exact moral equivalent of stripping, and doing a sex scene the exact moral equivalent of doing porn. And since strippers and porn actresses are sex workers, so is every single actress who’s ever appeared nude or done a sex scene.

By: thehumanscorch

thehumanscorch — Sat, 28 May 2011 22:08:15 +0000

“Their inability to cope with reality.”

This his been my mantra for several years now about the ‘perils’ of growing up, which are really all of the fears of the parents projected onto the child, which doesn’t negate the very real dangers in life, but rather highlights the parents’ inability to completely shield the child from it, or control the fact that danger exists in the world.
Also, the way that some men completely freak out over their now adolescent daughters, when nature has decided to grant them an exit from childhood.

But now with this column I see more clearly the plight of the whore, in that all throughout life they receive this intense projection, because, simply put, people just cannot deal.

I also couldn’t agree with you more about actresses that do nudity & the arrogant hypocrisy of the mantra that “it’s just acting.” No…selling the illusion or the simulation of sex isn’t really that different, because you’re getting people off in exchange for their money. Period.