Ganesh, actually I was referring to the "Derek and Science help Sam search for her bikini" comment, which I presume is yours.
Yes, of course. I wasn't immediately aware which of my body fascistastic photos you were referring to there. Sam isn't even particularly thin (I don't think she's anorectic, anyway), but when I saw the photo of the medical task, she immediately jumped to mind - and I'm attempting to focus in on why I should've mentally associated her with a skeleton. I suspect it's because, whatever the weather, she's worn so little around the House (that pink gingham bikini, essentially) that she seems bonier than she really is. I think of her somehow as stripped (presumably, by Nina's reasoning, for the male gaze) and, in some ways, a skeleton is the absurd-logical extension of that (a la Robbie Williams' Rock DJ video). She reminds me of Ally McBeal, another bony, birdlike child-woman who irritated the tits off me.
As I said previously, I posted the Moonpig photo here because I saw (and still, to a certain extent, see) her as foul in her behaviour toward Sam: I connected with that photo more because it emphasised Moonpig's monstrosity than because it exaggerated her weight (although exaggerations of weight either way probably is how we visualise/depict women as monsters, with me being no exception). It was inspired by my feelings about the "inner Moonpig", in the same way, I think, as the skeleton's probably how I picture Sam's inner being. Moonpig = bloated, monstrous, dictatorial; Sam = stripped, bony, empty. Probably fits with the idea of them as flipsides of each other's monstrousness... |
