Poor Moore whore

You know, I like women with large teeth. It's a sign of rude good health that their body was willing to expend the minerals big gnashers demand.
I also like women with small teeth, perfectly formed in dainty rows. There isn't a (straight) man alive who doesn't see Meg Ryan smile and imagine those pearlies round his bellend. And if there is, dude, you want shooting.
And there's something quite appealing about women with inbetween teeth, which aren't straight. There's something lived in about them.

Today's Daily Mail runs a story about Demi Moore's knees. (Saggy, apparently, because she had the fat from her thighs sucked through them, and cutting off the loose skin would have left scars.) The Mail can scarcely hide its glee at this telltale sign of ageing. Like all the tabloid press, it despises women, believing they are witless demimen, who can safely be divided into (young) slutabouttowns, (older) baby machines and (much older) invisible.

Demi is 40, and of course, around that age or a little sooner, a woman ripens, her youthful sheen fading, turning to a deeper lustre. She was beautiful before the work. Now she looks like she's been caught in the headlights.

Being judgmental about others' looks is of course part of human nature. It makes us feel good about our own imperfections. And part of the beauty myth is that we will be as loved as Demi if only we are as beautiful as her. Trinny and Susannah spend their working lives attempting to have women conform to the image most in the west have of beauty - a softened, dangerless, rather boring sweetness (which, it has been noted, seeks to have women look, and dress, like 14-year-old nice girls - can't find the study that found that men found faces with the same proportions as a 14yo attractive but it's out there).

But that love! It's not the tender sharing that we have - or wish to have - with our partners. Nothing is given or received. It is adulation, crowned with masturbation. Demi is making herself younger so that she is more fuckable, rejecting anything else about her that might also be attractive. Poor cow.

posted by Dr Zen @ 9:42 pm