Onder
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Woke up at 7:30, jacked off two times, ate some bread. Now I'm having a morning beer and off to work.
It's about how society will collapse into a "corpse" that will give birth to a new one.
“Jackie Treehorn Treats Objects Like Women!”: Two Types of Fetishism in The Big Lebowski
Brian Wall
Abstract
In this essay I explore the stupidity and sexism of the Coen Brothers' The Big Lebowski (1998) to read it as suggesting—by way of its emphasis on fetishism, castration, and commodification—a recontextualization of gender roles and a critical portrayal of the dedifferentiation of sexual and commodity fetishism as in the service of capital. First, the narrative frustrates all manners of substitution and exchange, so vital for both forms of fetishism. Second, the paternal function is continually evoked—typically in the form of the titular “Big Lebowski”—to be first submitted to critique but then rewritten, as Jeff Bridge's “Dude” comes to abjure both the imaginary and the symbolic dimensions of paternity in favor of more material and yet less oppressive and monolithic construals of paternity and masculinity. Third, I examine the consequences of the Dude's refusal of phallic mastery for the viewer and theorist.
These kinds of critics should save us all the time and just say all paths lead to the patriarchy.
And then fuck off, because they stink.
The best part is that it's from 2008
Why is that the best part?
It's before all the patriarchy bullshit
Haha! Hell no it's not dude.
When did all that start then?