Host Seth MacFarlane speaks about boobs onstage during the Oscars
Yes, it’s all about the breast these days â€" Lena Dunham, the current queen of pretty much all she surveys (and you can survey a lot from a private jet) needs only the time it takes to pull her top over her head in order to expose herself. And she does it to great effect â€" she probably wouldn’t be found on Page 3, but as the writer, director and star of her award-winning show Girls, she is unlikely to be terribly interested in participating in a Page 3 photo-shoot (although I could be wrong) â€" a bare breast can be the plaything of an exploitative billionaire press baron, or it can be a highly effective weapon in the fight for equality (quite a soft weapon, granted, but powerful nonetheless). As I mentioned before, context is king.
Lena Dunham
And away from the entertainment industry, the Femen topless protest movement is growing ever stronger, as a recent article in The Guardian by Kira Cochrane showed. Femen’s leader Inna told Cochrane: "A woman's naked body has always been the instrument of the patriarchy, they use it in the sex industry, the fashion industry, advertising, always in men's hands. We realised the key was to give the naked body back to its rightful owner, to women, and give a new interpretation of nudity ... I'm proud of the fact that today naked women are not just posing on the cover of Playboy, but can be at an action, angry, and can irritate people."
Furthermore, perhaps there are cultural issues at play here: we Brits have always had a strange attitude to the naked body, as if the mere fact of nudity itself may turn the world upside down, and the sense of shame that comes with an accidentally exposed buttock or nipple can drive people to drink (indeed drink can also drive people to expose a buttock or nipple, but that’s another problem entirely).
You only have to stick your head round the pine-clad door of a mixed-gender Scandinavian sauna, where full nudity is displayed with an admirable grown up insouciance, and it makes you wonder why we are so childish. Or a little trip to a Brazilian beach will give you a flavour of how the human body can be deployed to fairly mesmerizing effect. Perhaps it’s the weather, perhaps it’s all the Victorians’ fault, perhaps we just have a tabloid press run by priapic school boys, who knows? But it is quite limiting, not least in terms of artistic endeavour.
Of course, choice is the key issue here, and if Brown-Findlay felt she had no choice when she made the film, then that is regrettable. But now the deed has been done and cannot be undone, I hope she may start to perceive it differently as the years pass.
Brown-Findlay: you own your body, own your past, own your future. I’m sorry you feel uncomfortable about the nudity, but you’re in good company (but at least you seem to have moved on somewhat, as we will see soon you shedding your clothes again in your forthcoming programme, Labryinth). And at the end of the day, they’re only breasts â€" nothing to be ashamed of. PS Can someone let Kate Middleton know?
Source Article from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/9955545/Lady-Sybil-we-saw-your-boobs.-Big-deal.html
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