tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post391065679122754274..comments2024-03-28T17:54:41.814-04:00Comments on Face to Face: Catcalling to Pure Moodsagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-71538565838330718742021-07-01T16:01:13.367-04:002021-07-01T16:01:13.367-04:00Is Pure Moods too contaminated with irony when Pit...Is Pure Moods too contaminated with irony when Pitchfork likes it? Their review from last year:<br /><br />https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/various-artists-pure-moods-vol-1/<br /><br />I remember irony leftists talking a lot about the album a few years ago on Twitter, but wasn't sure whether they were being sincere or ironic.<br /><br />All the more reason to not be afraid of making this your catcalling soundtrack, if even the terminally online art ho types are cool with it.<br /><br />Not sure that the early-mid 20s girls yesterday knew what the song was, but if they were late 20s Millennials, they seem to all be aware of it. Most of the comments on the YouTube video of the TV commercial are from early '90s births who remember seeing it on Nickelodeon late at night.<br /><br />But whether they don't recognize it at all, or just didn't expect to ever hear it again (let alone in public), it will strike them as a pleasant surprise.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-48872891666026921652021-07-01T15:52:09.583-04:002021-07-01T15:52:09.583-04:00Catcalling is not in the same universe as sluttine...Catcalling is not in the same universe as sluttiness and fornication. It's like when someone tells you they like your shirt -- sometimes it's flirtation, but doesn't have to be. They just think you're cool, however it's not an invitation to be best friends. They're just letting you know what effect you've had on them. "Thanks for picking up my day by wearing that shirt".<br /><br />Some guy tells you your car is sweet, nice, sick, etc., it's not an invitation to a friendship. Just a quick, passing exchange that will not be "consummated" in a relationship.<br /><br />Catcalling is just as ritualistic and small-talk-y as random compliments, since that's what it is. It's a brief self-contained interaction, not the open-ended initiation of a relationship.<br /><br />Ditto for their reaction -- it's just a brief call-and-response thing, not a lasting relationship or even a one night stand.<br /><br />Anybody who worries about the sexual morality of catcalling is just a typical Puritanical American with their brain turned inside-out.<br /><br />Cornering the girl, holding her in place, and kissing or groping her is the attempt to initiate a sexual relationship. That is not what catcalling is, categorically different.<br /><br />But no one does that in America, it's just projection from the overly repressed psyche that is too afraid and timid to interact normally and naturally with others. "Oh, I would never catcall a girl -- I'm a righteous person, not a rapist."<br /><br />In reality, that guy feels tempted to feel up a girl who's passed out, or peep on his neighbors. That's the creepy mindset. They are the last to catcall or flirt. And they project their own warped voyeur rape-y fantasies onto those who engage in natural healthy flirting in public.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-6249278500550065072021-07-01T06:18:24.809-04:002021-07-01T06:18:24.809-04:00While slutting around and casual fornication is ru...While slutting around and casual fornication is ruinous to pair-bonding and parental (particularly father) investment in offspring, we need men and women to be joyfully male and female again.<br /><br />Carry on. <br /><br />Just don't flirt with the ones who're masked up outside.The Overgrown Hobbithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09806927514541692971noreply@blogger.com