tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452604934334420904.post4771312539687657001..comments2023-10-06T07:26:51.241-07:00Comments on The Tasty Spoonful: The High Life Man, Part II: What Women WantUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452604934334420904.post-38395572686299204122011-05-18T15:10:16.130-07:002011-05-18T15:10:16.130-07:00Angela - thanks for the comment! I can't belie...Angela - thanks for the comment! I can't believe I just totally glossed over the flower itself as an object (clearly because flowers are for girls), and I LOVE the notion that the HLM potentially plucked it from his wife's garden like an insensitive idiot.<br /><br />But now I'm also interested in the symbolism of the flower itself. It's so clear in its rhetoric as an object that it doesn't *actually* take any thought for him to choose it as a gift. It's not "thoughtful" because it adheres so rigidly to, as you put it, heteronormative narratives of romance.<br /><br />Meaning, what is actually giving? I dunno.<br /><br />And yeah, the identity of this narrator has been driving me nuts. I'm giving a nickel to whoever finds out who this mystery voice is.A-J Aronsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13791611340364727163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452604934334420904.post-14743992721058592282011-05-18T13:52:31.953-07:002011-05-18T13:52:31.953-07:00Hi A-J, This is a great read and I think the impor...Hi A-J, This is a great read and I think the importance of delving into the cultural fecundity of these ads shouldn't be undervalued. The text/sub-text of Casanova's red flower interests me. I'm surprised by how heteronormative culture still allies flowers with women, as tokens for women... if a High Life Man puts a flower (tritely plucked, maybe even from his wife's garden) in water, it's not for his own enjoyment, but for the Little Lady's. Just as this demeans the Lady, it didactically tells the man, "No, you can't like flowers (and maybe even beauty at large), you only use them as a commodity to get what you really want, which is sex." <br /><br />Also, did you notice the Casanova voice-over takes on sort of a Mid-western "da bears" accent?<br /><br />Angela Argentati (MAPH '09)wideflangebeamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15061144110045869876noreply@blogger.com