Thursday, April 1, 2010

Free Entry 1, Week 12

How a woman eats tells you a lot about her sexual
habits: examine, for example, Audrey Hepburn--famed
for her tiny bites, "appetite of a bird." Was she,
then, just as polite and cautious in her bedroom?
Perhaps a mottled brand of lipstick or nail polish
sat wistfully on her dresser, watching and wishing
that she were as daring as the red it gives her.
I hear that Angelina Jolie has quite the appetite,
scarfing her food with insatiable curiosity as to how
it's made; though it could be that you already knew.
Is that why, then, there was such a correlation--
not so long ago--between a woman's appetite for food
and her manners? Is that why we still consider such
princesses as refined, asexual, or rather nonsexual
and pop-princesses as simple or "easy" in their
will to flaunt their larger figures? The film Spanglish
told us that American women are afraid of curves
and the suggestion that they make of sexuality.
WARNING: Female sexuality ahead.

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