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?

Dumbledore

JK Rowling has revealed that she always thought of Dumbledore as gay. I like the words she used. She didn’t, as has been reported, say that he is gay. She said she thought of him as gay. There’s a distinction there. After The Deathly Hallows came out she gave out a few ideas of what “happened” to the characters after the story ended. The thing is, she didn’t write them into the story, just like Dumbledore’s sexuality. Whatever happens between and after the pages is still open for you to read and imagine whatever you want. An aspect of postmodernism states that literary analysis goes beyond even the intentions of the author himself. Such-and-such is what she thinks happened to the characters, but by not writing it into canon she’s saying that your imagination is just as good as hers.

The AfterEllen.com Hot 100 List

The AfterEllen.com Hot 100 List

Provides an interesting contrast to Maxim’s Hot 100.

Alan Moore on Pornography

Alan Moore on Pornography

Long essay by Alan Moore about sexuality in culture.