Weird. Strange. Odd. Peculiar.

Weird. Strange. Odd. Peculiar.

You ever see something that shouldn't be a bit weird, odd, but somehow is, as far as you go. The kind of, "I know this is weird" but I'm not supposed to think it is weird? Two guys snogging in the street? Two girls snogging in a restaurant? (Hubba, hubba.............................only kidding!) Maybe thirty years ago but now? No, its normal. Hell, even I have snogged a guy in the street, at a bus stop! (Not to be recommend if they have not shaved! How do women put up with it?) I think he was kind of surprised! And he was the gay one! Well, in for a penny...........It was not as nice as snogging a woman, in fact a long way short; nice to know that I'm heterosexual. Does that count as a plus or minus?

(I'd still find it strange to find someone nailing someone else's penis to a plank in public though - but then, I guess it's my age! An old fuddy-duddy. And the fact that the last thing I want to to do is have my penis nailed to a plank. And besides. who wants to piss at right angles to the bowl? Strange, to my thinking, the S&M crew.)

So, to get back to the plot, I saw an attractive, petite female, mid twenties perhaps, today. Cute little button nose, full lips, bumps in all the right places. So why do I do think it strange?

Well, she was riding a 'hog'................with cow horns!

(For the uninitiated, a 'hog' is a Harley Davidson motorcycle. Cow horns, are the kind of handlebars beloved of Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda in 'Easy Rider' - they're way in front of you, and above)

Now, don't get me wrong, I don't see anything wrong with women on motorbikes, although it's rare, Kwackers, Suzis, Ducatis. But a hog? It just seemed so incongruous. Hell's Angels ride hogs. Greasy, long haired types in fringed leather jackets and rancid Levi's ride hogs. People who carry a spare bike chain just so they can hit you with it ride hogs. Some delectable, young female who is scoring 11/10 on the cuteness scale does not ride hogs!

And yet she did, and has a perfect right to.

I suspect it is a reaction to what all men get innoculated with at birth. The idea that women can't do, shouldn't do, what men do. We fight against it; we proclaim equality; we treat women as just another human being; we believe, sincerely believe, that they are just as intelligent, creative as we are; we believe they are our equals; we believe they are not just objects to be lusted after, a trophy, one more notch on the bedpost; we believe, truly we do!

And yet, I still found it strange! This lady on a hog!

I guess no matter how hard we try, we'll never quite get over our genes, ay?

Strange too is what the internet, the world wide web, can lead us to. I started out by looking at some article on Aztec/Toltec cultures and ended up by reading an article by Susie Bright on Catherine MacKinnon. (Sad life I live) Now Mackinnon was very big in the early days of the feminist movement, the 70's/80's along with her 'pal' Andrea Dworkin. Like Dworkin, she was very big on how the American 'porn' industry was underming the 'feminist' view and how it should be legislated against. Even if it undermined the First Amendment - completely!

Pornography degraded women, they said! (Never mind how it degraded the 'stunt cocks' like Peter North; good only for the 'money shot'! Or the anticipated audience, masturbatory males wanking off to any stimulus. Lenny Bruce was right, men will fuck anything, even mud!)

And who's laughing now?

Jenna Haze, worth a fortune. Sasha Gray, mainstream cinema, and probably worth a fortune. Ginger Lynn and Taija Rae earning $5,000 a DAY for basically fucking in front of a camera; they used to get 'common' prostitutes to do that for the equivalent of $10 a day in the 19th century; who's fooling who here? Who's taking who for a ride here? (It's not my fault they blew all that 'wealth' on cocaine. Didn't everybody?)

You see, in end Dworkin et al were/are shooting at the wrong target. Porn is just another manifestation of what we all know - the exploitation of the many to the benefit of the few. Women may be exploited more but it's only a question of degree not about exploitation per se. And I'd question the fact that they are exploited more.

No, the people who are most exploited are the schmucks that buy the stuff or now lay themselves open to identity theft by downloading it 'for free'! They, in the pursuit of transitory sexual gratification, are the real victims of exploitation!

Footnote: That doyen of 'porn' movies, Deep Throat' had so many Mafioso connections that it ought to have been deemed criminal! Not because it was obscene but because it was criminal!