The first time I ever heard of "girl kissing competitions" was a couple of years ago while sitting in a friend's kitchen drinking tea and chatting about our lives. The radio just happened to be on and to this point was being ignored, however an attention getting ad that cut through the senses blurted out a girl kissing competition.
Shocked, I looked at my friend and she said that her just barely teenaged step-daughter insisted on having that particular radio station on at all corners of the house so that where ever she was, she could hear it. But what about the ad, I continued, that's just incredible that "girl kissing" is being touted in public as something acceptable to broadcast. She agreed, that it was incredible, yet it seemed to really appeal to girls her step-daughter's age.
Now in case everyone's been wondering where I've been, I don't listen to popular music radio stations, and when I did while I lived in Australia, I have never heard of "girl kissing competitions". Whether they are a recent phenomena confined to NZ, I have no idea. But I do agree that this sort of thing crosses the line.
What struck me about the latest competition was that the onlookers were largely young men.
Christopher West explains it best in his short discourse on Katy Perry and how she has been wounded by men and by our culture, on how that woundedness comes out in the tune I kissed a girl (used by the radio station here in their competition as background music) and in other music of hers. Just register and listen - it's only 10 minutes. Thanks to Semper Vita for the link.
Related Link: Lip-locking ladies draw crowds ~ Stuff
Shocked, I looked at my friend and she said that her just barely teenaged step-daughter insisted on having that particular radio station on at all corners of the house so that where ever she was, she could hear it. But what about the ad, I continued, that's just incredible that "girl kissing" is being touted in public as something acceptable to broadcast. She agreed, that it was incredible, yet it seemed to really appeal to girls her step-daughter's age.
Now in case everyone's been wondering where I've been, I don't listen to popular music radio stations, and when I did while I lived in Australia, I have never heard of "girl kissing competitions". Whether they are a recent phenomena confined to NZ, I have no idea. But I do agree that this sort of thing crosses the line.
What struck me about the latest competition was that the onlookers were largely young men.
About 40 girls paired up in Cathedral Square yesterday afternoon and locked lips in an effort to win a trip to Melbourne to see pop star Katy Perry, singer of the hit song I Kissed a Girl. Most looked to be teenagers or in their early 20s with organisers from The Edge radio station urging them to be "as hetero or as gay as you like about it".... The onlookers were largely young men.A number of years back I watched a movie about a 70's porn star. I can't remember the name of the movie, I can't really remember much about the movie, but I do remember a scene where a guy goes out to the driveway and finds his wife being bonked by a man with a circle of about 10 men just standing there, watching. That image has stayed with me over the years, and I think of it now as I read the following post on the Hand Mirror.
I see that the male members of the blogosphere have been quick to ridicule the Family Party's drive by morality on a radio stations girl-on-girl kiss contest.What's most bizarre is that a woman cannot see what is wrong with a radio station running a girl kissing competition. I expect liberal men to be right in there with the "right" of women to kiss in public. I expect conservative men to understand why it crosses the lines of moral decency. And I'm not surprised that liberal women can almost see what is wrong with the whole thing, but are stopped by their ideology from really seeing - but I find it bizarre.
I'm not sure what's more bizarre, the Family Party's opposition or the fact that so many straight men have been quick to defend a woman's right to engage in a PDA with a fellow XXer.
I've kissed a girl too so what ~ ex-expat
Christopher West explains it best in his short discourse on Katy Perry and how she has been wounded by men and by our culture, on how that woundedness comes out in the tune I kissed a girl (used by the radio station here in their competition as background music) and in other music of hers. Just register and listen - it's only 10 minutes. Thanks to Semper Vita for the link.
Related Link: Lip-locking ladies draw crowds ~ Stuff