The Problem With Some Sexy Men Blogs
I love objectifying men as much as the next gal (or guy), but I’ve got a slight problem with these blogs that just post pics of hot Asian guys with no name or ethnicity, no hint of whatever it is not-related-to-sexiness that they’re contributing to the world.
I understand that sometimes you just…On the topic of some sexy POC blogs… i.e. the ones that say nothing about their men:
Have you ever read the Madeleine L’engle books, particularly A Wind in the Door? It used to be one of my favorite books growing up even with its unapologetically Christian overtones (which I suppose could have been worse—at least she was a Universalist, right?). Anyway, it has a very powerful theme in the sense that the protagonists give life to to things by Naming them, while the Ecthroi, an evil force, destroy by Unnaming. This is actually a message repeated in the Bible, in which certain characters’ agencies are pronounced or muffled by whether or not the writer chooses to name them.
The power of names is pretty obvious so I won’t bother going into detail with it now, but it applies just as much in the world of new media, where images can be taken and presented as empty canvases, people with no names, giving the viewer the option to ascribe whatever identity they want to them—it is a true exercise in objectification to strip away someone’s name, and when it comes to people of color, it only recalls a history of being Unnamed, of being told we are nothing more than tools for another person’s pleasure. A history of names being forcibly changed by slaveholders, and of being forced to change our name to fit into an American Dream.
Cause rosasharon is not only sexy,
He’s smart, too.
Yeah, click that follow button.
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