January 2012
48 posts
Picture Detox
It’s the last weekend in January (oh shiiiii’). To mark the end, or in my case the beginning of detox, here’s 10 pictures of hot women.
Shoezzz
I might make a seperate tumblr for shoe research. Name needed.
“Footbinding allowed Chinese women to usurp power and language from the master [through imitation, simulation and inversion] and to turn it into their own - female language, female writing, female culture… an anguished response to the shifting and eroding boundaries of gender, sex and hierarchy. In footbinding Beauty and Pain became twin sisters, it is the noble cultural signature of the profoundest significance.”
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Wang Peng, ‘Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China’
“Forget diamonds… High heels are a girl’s best friend… Toes painted… arches peaked… the length of your leg pulled out. Exactly like at the moment of orgasm! Quelle coincidence!”
—Dianne Brill, ’Boobs, Boys and High Heels’
“High heels transform a woman’s body, throwing it into a state of tension resembling that of female arousal. Sex and shoes are inseparable.”
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Valerie Steele, ‘Shoes: A Lexicon of Style’
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Kirsty: I need to make some new friends who aren’t vegetarian so that I can go to Nandos when I want.
New Workmate: Oh, are all your friends vegetarian?
Kirsty: Well. I’ve got one friend, and she’s vegetarian.
New Workmate: … oh.
