Thursday, December 12, 2024

Creepy Love and Sexy Sex

I have a bone to pick. . . so I will.  It is two things juxtaposed. . . maybe three.  All have to do with Keira Knightly.  I just watched "Black Doves," a Netflix series in which she stars.  It wasn't "all that," but I watched the entire season.  There may be another coming, I don't know, but if there is, I might watch it, too.  But just "maybe", because I read an article the day after finishing the series in which Knightley disses a scene in "Love Actually."  She says she found shooting the card scene "creepy."  She still does.  

WTF?!  What a world, what a world, where a woman who plays a character who is a spy and an assassin cheating on her husband who works for the Prime Minister of England must say that this scene is creepy.  

So, if she found it creepy, one wonders, why didn't she say she wouldn't do it?  Well. . . we certainly can guess at an answer now, can't we?  She did it for the fame and for the money.  And that, friends, I find kinda. . . creepy.  

"I was only 17," she says.  Maybe that's a defense?  

My takeaway is that she finds love creepy but killing and cheating. . . well, she hasn't actually weighed in on that yet.  As far as I know, no reporter has asked the question. 

Does one really wonder at Trump's overwhelming victory?  Trump is a real creep, but now many people who adored the scene or who were heartbroken by it are lumped into the category, too.  

I read an article in the Times today that addresses the need to talk to children about "porn."  It is a thing that children come across on the internet now at an average age of twelve.  What concerns the informer in the article, a professor at Brigham Young University, is what kind of "porn" children are subjected to.  Much of what children see online is violent sex, he says.  He speaks of sexualized nudity.  

O.K.  

"Why does mommy paint her toes red and show them in her shoes?"

"She just wants to be pretty."

"I like girl's feet, daddy.  They make me feel all scrunchy inside."

"Uh. . . !!!!"

Yea. . . I don't know where I'm going with that, really.  I haven't thought it through.  I'm against violence.  I'm not against sex.  I'm not against nudity nor consensual things.  And I'm not against people feeling good and pretty.  And, as you all know. . . I'm a big proponent of love, actually.  

There.  I kind of put a bow on that confusion.  

Today will be Gorgeous on the old Weather Meter, though a bit chilly for the sunny south.  Still, it offers opportunity.  I will try to take advantage of that.  

O.K.  Here's something that I find fairly sexy.  What is the connection between "sexy" and "sex"?  

Yikes!



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