ahahah, sure of course, link to me. i want to be infamous and controversial and objectified ;) ahahaha i dunno if i easily objectify real people. i've never had a hero that was living. i have plenty of dead heroes, though. say, emily dickinson, to be random. when i was like, 12-13, i really thought some actors were beyond cute. i didn't think about it much, but i really really liked seeing them in magazines and movies... but like... for me to really objectify, i need to really feel i -understand- (like you said). and it would be difficult for me to ever imagine i understand someone i haven't read the source material on, so to speak. which is hilarious because i actually only read 3/4ths of `philosopher's stone' and not the others... truth is, i probably think of luw and origins and ip and `the marks we bear' and dragonweed and so on as source material that i draw off of. i mean, why is that wrong? to me, harry potter didn't really exist before fanfic. i was like this with star trek, never having watched any before reading the books. so when i did watch it, i was seeing it through the eyes of a fanfic reader, and i could never see it any other way.
but yes. i totally see the objectification as dangerous if taken to an extreme, but rather prevalent anyway. almost everyone in the society at large is sort of encouraged to, even. we are -given- these actors to objectify, the case could be made. i mean, with nsync, it's just -true-. with lotr... sort of. they want us to obsess, the media does. and not about aragorn, either. i'm pretty sure viggo's pr people would really rather it be viggo, not aragorn. i have always separated actors and roles. like, leonard nimoy was never spock. -spock- is spock. it's just that simple. leonard nimoy is just not as interesting by far. heh. also, viggo seems interesting (the fact that he writes poetry at -all- gets him on my good side, plus he's a photographer), but he's not my type, ahahaha.
i suppose i'll eat my words once i find a genius writer/actor who has draco's attitude and possibly looks -.- hee~:)
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Date: 2003-01-11 02:26 pm (UTC)i dunno if i easily objectify real people. i've never had a hero that was living. i have plenty of dead heroes, though. say, emily dickinson, to be random.
when i was like, 12-13, i really thought some actors were beyond cute. i didn't think about it much, but i really really liked seeing them in magazines and movies...
but like... for me to really objectify, i need to really feel i -understand- (like you said). and it would be difficult for me to ever imagine i understand someone i haven't read the source material on, so to speak.
which is hilarious because i actually only read 3/4ths of `philosopher's stone' and not the others... truth is, i probably think of luw and origins and ip and `the marks we bear' and dragonweed and so on as source material that i draw off of. i mean, why is that wrong? to me, harry potter didn't really exist before fanfic. i was like this with star trek, never having watched any before reading the books. so when i did watch it, i was seeing it through the eyes of a fanfic reader, and i could never see it any other way.
but yes. i totally see the objectification as dangerous if taken to an extreme, but rather prevalent anyway. almost everyone in the society at large is sort of encouraged to, even.
we are -given- these actors to objectify, the case could be made. i mean, with nsync, it's just -true-. with lotr... sort of. they want us to obsess, the media does. and not about aragorn, either. i'm pretty sure viggo's pr people would really rather it be viggo, not aragorn.
i have always separated actors and roles. like, leonard nimoy was never spock. -spock- is spock. it's just that simple. leonard nimoy is just not as interesting by far. heh.
also, viggo seems interesting (the fact that he writes poetry at -all- gets him on my good side, plus he's a photographer), but he's not my type, ahahaha.
i suppose i'll eat my words once i find a genius writer/actor who has draco's attitude and possibly looks -.- hee~:)