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Revisiting Aunt Jemima's Big Black Ass - The Dirty Old Men Skirt Expose
Tuesday, May 09, 2006



I took this series of photographs with my laptop camera. The fact that the camera is attached to my computer made taking wide angle shots cumbersome, and so I didn't bother to do it. I instead wanted to zoom in. Never showing my face or even my torso in an attempt to reclaim the gaze I talked about earlier. I guess there would be no knowing that the model in the photographs is me if I had not told you. But isn't knowing resistance in this instance?

The "bigness" of the legs is important here. Particularly in comparison to the skirt. Quite obviously, there is much more flesh visible than skirt. Here, I wanted to emphasize the "enveloping flesh" idea I mentioned earlier. Also, the location of skirt, thighs, legs, which further symbolize this ideology around penetration. The fact that legs, split from one another is the ultimate symbols for sex, is also important because what does it mean then, for these "gatekeepers" to be larger? (More territory to conquer (penetrate), occupy (own)? But I am explaining too much here. Tell me what you think.

For info behind the meaning of this expose, go to my blog entry on Aunt Jemima's Big Black Ass here.

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