To be Man for Woman
Essay
The Paralympics 2024 in Paris has just opened and I’ve encountered for the first time in my life the video of Lucky Love on X. The singer is also a performer. I googled for a modest search and learned Luc Bruyère (Lucky Love) was born with one arm. Below are screenshots from his music video “Masculinity” (2023) on YouTube, according to my picture pics.
As usual, I will work on this publication in live or en direct, which though does not mean what I write is instantly published, but there is a series of processes of my quick editing, adding or subtractions, then my click to publish leads to posting of it. I repeat the process until the completion of the piece. Such is my style I’ve been fond of it and keeping with me for Juliette Masch Writes basically ever since its launch.
What you’re reading now is the initial part of this piece, which you may find unusually short. The reason for this introductory brevity is a structural purpose I now vaguely have in my mind. In the images below, Lucky Love is the one leading the dancers.
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Below is “Masculinity” (2023) by Lucky Love:
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For the other music video which I wanted to insert into, I in fact obliged myself to review the Substack guideline for writers. There, “Nudity and porns” together forms one article. Nudity for gratifications is not permissible while artistic or literary (or some such genres) are acceptable. The standards may be subjective. Substack holds the rights for deleting or shadow banning the publication containing nudity which violates the guideline.
I consider “Needed Me” (2016) by Rihanna as a motion picture narrative in a form of music video. It can also be described as a short story. Words, visions, motions tell us a lot, equivalent to an experimental visual tale of edgy modern underworld of love, betrayal, ecstasy seeker and sex, violence, and a woman who shot back at [the world which] hit her hard. Crimes and drugs can be added on with strongly visual implications. If Substack bans my account for “Needed Me”, good bye everyone, thank you for your kind interests in Juliette Masch Writes.
READ THIS PARAGRAPH AS CAUTIONARY NOTE: When adopting the movie rating, this video can be easily R. It is therefore not for children, equally nor so for men in abstinence of all kinds for any reason, additionally nor so for women with certain morality on certain conditions of nudity regardless of the narrative content.
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“Needed Me” very likely is viewed as a revange plot of a woman abused by a man or men in a gang-infected society with no stable government, but controlled by criminal organizations like cartels. If, hypothetically, Democrats try to recreate it as migrants’ story of women who made their way to achieve their dream in the US, it will be truly laughable. In my sense, entertainment and movie industries support Dems for the resources and policies favorable for them, thus they vote The D Party, or for Kamala or whomever with D. Whether Democrats rightly appreciate and understand arts, films, or music may not matter so much for them, I think.
I like Rihanna for her business sense and her intuitive (to me, it seems) decision for taking her path on women’s body as sexuality and maternity, not as either/or. She is not only a singer but also a performer. She knows her body, as should all women know their own bodies. Rihanna makes me think of a goddess of fertility and sexuality in ancient religions. In a different context, the same female body would become commercially modern, while viewed, paid, flattered, praised, demanded and abused by men. Alternatively, women can commercially abuse men’s desire in different cases.
What is women’s body for men? The more covered and concealed women’s bodies are, the more the revelation of the mystery and secret increase its degree when disclosed. What is women’s body for women? The more covered and concealed women’s bodies are, the more the women’s gaze at other women decrease its degree.
Men pay for women’s nudity. Fanatics kill women when seeing as blasphemy. Be radically feminists. Women are not for the men’s reciprocal value system in either way.
What is men’s body for women? Sexy, admirable, trustworthy, or even payable to view when built well? Feeble, miserable, laughable, or even payable not to view when very aged and naked? Such superficiality of both is equally laughable. Those are just aspects as phase-only, that’s all if true. Impairment or disabled used to be the official words to describe people like Lucky Love. I even don’t know whether handicaps or disadvantaged can be for the widest lexical usage in these days.
What is men’s body for men? Men cultivate soil. Men hunt animals for foods. Men carry weapons. Men caress their beloved in tenderness. Men hold wives and babies with their arms. Men built houses. Men pave roads. Men fight. Men protect. Men run. Men sing. Men dream to be aspired. Men never cease to ponder on what they should have but they don’t yet. To be a man for a woman. All turn to be a love song in the end.
“To be Man for Woman” by Juliette Masch (8/29)