Monday, October 17, 2005
Secrets on Display
Speaking of licentiousness on display in the public squareG. Tracy Mehan III on Victoria's Secret on National Review Online:goes from a Greatful Dead album cover to what is described as a truly raunchy display by Victoria's Secret. You'll have to click the link for the vivid descriptions (no pictures), but here is a part of the writer's conclusions:
"[these] outrages may not be crimes, but neither are they victimless. You have to be some kind of Cartesian, mind-body dualist to think that what people think, say, or otherwise communicate has no impact on how they behave, use, or abuse their own bodies. If ideas have consequences, for adults, children, and families, it is time to challenge those ideas, championed by Limited Brands and Victoria?s Secret, and enabled by landlords, mall owners, and feckless consumers.
Norms, values, and ethics are a precondition of ordered liberty, a free society, and a market economy. Their sources are family, community, and religious faith. Without them, disorder runs rampant within the human heart and within society.
The family is the paramount human society which is threatened by the licentiousness (there is no other word for it) promoted by businesses such as Victoria's Secret, Hollywood film studios, breweries, and Super Bowl promoters. Rather than celebrating fidelity and self-sacrifice in the context of stable family life, they promote self-indulgence that pollutes the public square from which it is impossible to insulate one?s family or oneself."
I've always thought it amusing to call the brand Victoria's Secret -- cause she ain't hidin' much -- Maybe Victoria's Flaunt, Victoria's Overexposure, or Victoria's Secret Revealed would be more appropriate. Victoria's Immodest Proposal has a ring to it, but Vikki's Sleaz Togs captures the true essence.
"[these] outrages may not be crimes, but neither are they victimless. You have to be some kind of Cartesian, mind-body dualist to think that what people think, say, or otherwise communicate has no impact on how they behave, use, or abuse their own bodies. If ideas have consequences, for adults, children, and families, it is time to challenge those ideas, championed by Limited Brands and Victoria?s Secret, and enabled by landlords, mall owners, and feckless consumers.
Norms, values, and ethics are a precondition of ordered liberty, a free society, and a market economy. Their sources are family, community, and religious faith. Without them, disorder runs rampant within the human heart and within society.
The family is the paramount human society which is threatened by the licentiousness (there is no other word for it) promoted by businesses such as Victoria's Secret, Hollywood film studios, breweries, and Super Bowl promoters. Rather than celebrating fidelity and self-sacrifice in the context of stable family life, they promote self-indulgence that pollutes the public square from which it is impossible to insulate one?s family or oneself."
I've always thought it amusing to call the brand Victoria's Secret -- cause she ain't hidin' much -- Maybe Victoria's Flaunt, Victoria's Overexposure, or Victoria's Secret Revealed would be more appropriate. Victoria's Immodest Proposal has a ring to it, but Vikki's Sleaz Togs captures the true essence.
// posted by Zerin Hood @ 4:02 PM 
