13 December 2008

Remembering Bettie Page, the '50s Fetish Fantasy Pin-up - washingtonpost.com

Remembering Bettie Page, the ’50s Fetish Fantasy Pin-up - washingtonpost.com

This is a bizarre article. Stephen Hunter directly admonishes readers for being into the fetish stuff Bettie Page was famous for (“What is wrong with you people?”) while somehow remarking on how important she was to the sexual revolution. Isn’t it a little late to be criticizing the fantasies of American men from the 50s? Did Hunter want to write a longer piece on exploitation and feminism of Page’s time but wasn’t given the word count?