a hard working farmer buys tractors and the government gives away food stamps and the dirt feels better than any looks given :???:

…my mother was from the city too! :lol: Iggy Pop – Wild America :mrgreen:

Oh,I am basically a tall,blonde guy(balding these days tho),wich has long been attracted to dark haired and also darker variations of skin tone on women,but,the occasional blonde gal will reeeeeeally catch My eye! She doesn’t always have to be drop-dead-gorgeous either,sometimes it is that “certain something” wich is indefinable that gets My attention,on the occasions when I try to analyze *why* I want a woman I always seem to detract from the feeling and that’s the beginning of the end.

Women more than men perhaps may be attracted to someone who is intelligent as there is less stereotyping of the male appearance, a little more leeway for the “ugly” man.

Women are viewed as less intelligent than men as a form of social prejudice, which is part of my field of study: discrimination by race and gender.

A large part of what we see as beautiful is colored by the image of the upper class social group, that which has the economic and social influence, such as the Northern European look, a small straight nose, rather than Asian or African, big eyes, blonde hair etc. This is the look that has been portrayed in Hollywood film and advertising.

Kublai Khan was a one of the first racists and tried to impose such an order on China, with Mongols at the top, then Europeans, then Northern Chinese, then Southern Chinese etc. In such ethnic systems, lighter skin is preferred to darker skin, and this is obviously because many conquerors have a lighter skin historically. It was Europe that colonized the rest of the world. This scheme did not last long in China, although there is still a preferred norm for the northern Beijing beauty.

Part of the cuteness of many Russians is the Asiatic influence, from the time of the Mongol invasion, or before. The Muscovites conquered much of Asia in building the Russian empire, which then became the Soviet Union, and now simply Russia, in a somewhat reduced coalition.

The Russian ruling families also admired French and European culture and elevated education and art to a great level, which is also seen as a differentiation from the peasantry, who were held in serfdom for centuries. So to be educated and cultured, as well as to be well groomed, is to be part of the ruling elite.

Marina is obviously heir to this tradition of intellectual pride and beauty, bearing etc. Thus, it is unlikely that she would favor to adopt the purely American form of “sexual” beauty, which is most often characterized by the oversexed dumb blonde attitude, epitomized by Marylyn Monroe. In this form, the women becomes purely sexual object.

In the American working classes and to an increasing extent in the middle classes, the women have less educational ambition and less self-esteem, and so they are prone to participation in forms of art that can be characterized as porn, which is not so much about how much is exposed as the manner in which the women pander to the male fantasies, even in such foolishness as “foot fetish.” The emphasis on particular body part as well as the degradation of women is characteristic of this. There is a good book on this called: “Are Women Human?” by Catharine A. MacKinnon. I would encourage everyone to take a look t this book to understand the difference between porn and art.

I would not consider this site to be porn, not even “soft porn,” as some viewers have suggested. The main difference is that Marina is not catering to male fantasies but has her own intellectual and artistic agenda, that she offers an educational and intellectual product, philology and some embedded philosophy about love, celebrity love, or something that she makes more personal. Indeed, part of the attraction of the videos is that they appear like a personal web cam, the way she leans into the cam for example. To the male viewer, it is like having a girlfriend, and so it appeals to the lonely hearts club fan. It is not erotic, but more of a “personalistic love genre,” more evocative of a “love feeling.”

Really good art is not erotic, at least in my opinion. There are forms of “erotic art,” of course, but I consider them to be of lesser significance, certainly not high art. Marina is really offering her complex of philosophical love and word-work to her students, who seem very appreciative for the most part.

And then the mode of communication is an educational one, about philology, word etymology. So there is a substance to the communication. There is also a sub-theme of wishing Marina commercial success etc. and the celebrity thing. Obviously, this very delicate balance requires a lot of work. And then also, there really is a teacher-student relation, the personal interaction that is lacking in mass market celebrity mediums. That is the magic of the internet and online teaching.

So there are many complex elements involved, chief among which are acting ability, creativity/script, personality, and intelligence. Intelligence and personality can go a long way to enhance as well as to shape the perception of physical beauty. Like any endeavor, there is a customer/seller kind of relationship and that does require a lot of individual attention and hard work. It is probably harder than other ways of becoming a celebrity but also one in which she maintains more control.

The vast majority of work in this world needs to be work most people can do, and constantly pounding the pay for such work downward and downward to accommodate academia and its need to market itself as a way towards financial advancement is a very bad thing, in my opinion.

You probably need to look at deregulating corporate law and copyright so that people can not game the system if you want to cure this whole wage gap thing. That is to say, you have to redesign the business structure from scratch, and hell no I do not mean socialism.

My $.50 (inflation, you know)

Carpe Diem De Tempus Fugit!

Mabuhay!

God Bless.

“Go With Velocity!!”

warmly,
Nelson