Love the article. As a 20 year old girl now, it's nice to hear my own complex feelings and experiences articulated back to me so well when I often fail to find the right words myself.
It reminds me of Jean Baudrillard's "Seduction," especially with "interrogating signs" and "sexy" as something defined by objects vs "sexy" as a vibe.
I love the intimacy and adoration you show your friends. This section:
"I’m probably to blame. I love the word myself, and I use it to mean all kinds of things. This glass of wine is really sexy. This is a sexy salad. What a sexy couch. I find every single one of my dear friends sexy—it’s a prerequisite for our friendship, in fact. If I didn’t find you sexy upon first meeting, I did as I more fully understood and delighted in your personality, your way of being in the world; I find your specificity magnetic because it’s fully itself(....)"
Great reflections. Thank you for a better theory of sexiness. (My 8-year-old is currently obsessed with the My Big Fat Greek Wedding trilogy (yeah, who knew)… and I have no idea what to think about it.)
“The show is partly about what humanity gives up for technology and it’s also about how AI is trying to become more human. It made me think about how we want our sex robots to be more life-like…and our women more robotic.” Absolute brilliance 🙌🏽
Love the article. As a 20 year old girl now, it's nice to hear my own complex feelings and experiences articulated back to me so well when I often fail to find the right words myself.
It reminds me of Jean Baudrillard's "Seduction," especially with "interrogating signs" and "sexy" as something defined by objects vs "sexy" as a vibe.
I love the intimacy and adoration you show your friends. This section:
"I’m probably to blame. I love the word myself, and I use it to mean all kinds of things. This glass of wine is really sexy. This is a sexy salad. What a sexy couch. I find every single one of my dear friends sexy—it’s a prerequisite for our friendship, in fact. If I didn’t find you sexy upon first meeting, I did as I more fully understood and delighted in your personality, your way of being in the world; I find your specificity magnetic because it’s fully itself(....)"
..Very sexy!
Great reflections. Thank you for a better theory of sexiness. (My 8-year-old is currently obsessed with the My Big Fat Greek Wedding trilogy (yeah, who knew)… and I have no idea what to think about it.)
“The show is partly about what humanity gives up for technology and it’s also about how AI is trying to become more human. It made me think about how we want our sex robots to be more life-like…and our women more robotic.” Absolute brilliance 🙌🏽
Brilliant👏🏽🫶🏻