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Thread #68420   Message #1166970
Posted By: GUEST,gobi
21-Apr-04 - 06:56 AM
Thread Name: Bob Dylan for Victoria's Secret
Subject: RE: Bob Dylan for Victoria's Secret
well, well. I haven't seen the ad but I believe Bob was leering at the young lady in lingerie and spikes, flashing through Venice, as he sang "I'm sick of love" because, yes, a girl in lingerie is attractive, no matter what age you are. Most of us older guys don't leer, but we appreciate in silence. Bob might be recognizing this and gives the sneer while singing the song, to undermine the whole Victoria's Secret thing..dressing young, middle and older aged women in underwear designed to attract and to inspire lustful response. I suppose that's ok, if the response is between lover and loved, but when you watch the ads for Victoria's on tv and you're an older guy, and you know that the times have changed and you're never going to be with a woman that beautiful ever again, then you get sick of love, sick of the way it is presented, sick of the way our culture accents the female form to sell products. I'm sick of that kind of love, too. What is it in this world that makes women want to attract and then get upset when they attract indiscriminately? I mean, would everyone be ok with the ad if it were the model and Ben Affleck? Old men aren't dead but they do know how to behave and they do get sick of having near naked women thrust before them when they are reclining in a rocker for another quiet night at home. It's Victoria's Secrets that is perpetuating the crime.