{"id":17,"date":"2007-03-02T12:47:52","date_gmt":"2007-03-02T19:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/2007\/03\/02\/the-feminine-male\/"},"modified":"2007-03-13T20:06:27","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T03:06:27","slug":"the-feminine-male","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/2007\/03\/02\/the-feminine-male\/","title":{"rendered":"The Feminine Male"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I saw Charlie Chaplin was in the 1931 film <em>City Lights<\/em>. In my ignorance, I thought that the particular scene was a strange one, the Tramp was in a locker room with a brutish boxer towering above him. Chaplin, in an attempt to make nice with the thug,\u00c2\u00a0avoids an aggressive demeanor. He opts instead to smile and\u00c2\u00a0actually cuts eyes at him in a flirting manner.\u00c2\u00a0Since I did not know about Chaplin&#8217;s life or his infatuation\u00c2\u00a0to many\u00c2\u00a0young women (his true downfall), I figured that he was, bluntly put, gay.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0I had missed the point. After Rudolph Valentino&#8217;s adrogynous appeal took the nation by storm,\u00c2\u00a0Hollywood presented a new sort of hero,\u00c2\u00a0one that could\u00c2\u00a0simultaenously\u00c2\u00a0be masculine and feminine, attracting both sexes.\u00c2\u00a0This tradition has definitely continued throughout the twentieth century mainstream culture, and\u00c2\u00a0without much\u00c2\u00a0uproar\u00c2\u00a0from gender role\u00c2\u00a0traditionalists. James Dean,\u00c2\u00a0Marlon Brando, Elvis Presely, David\u00c2\u00a0Bowie and Mick Jagger all manage to be both pretty and manly. The attraction here is sexual for both\u00c2\u00a0male audiences and female.<\/p>\n<p>I think the most notable Feminine Male of today is Brando&#8217;s protege Johnny Depp.\u00c2\u00a0Audiences were delighted and won over\u00c2\u00a0with Depp&#8217;s portrayal of Jack Sparrow in Pirates Of The Carribean. If Sparrow is not bisexual, he is\u00c2\u00a0just a tease for Orlando Bloom. And one can see a connection in those\u00c2\u00a0action movies we viewed in class <em>Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse <\/em>and <em>Son of the Sheik<\/em> with a rip roaring adventure on the high seas. The hero is able to show his dainty side, but can also throw a punch to balance it out. As for Chaplin, he&#8217;s not exactly an action star, but breaking past gender roles often gets a laugh&#8230;except for you Mel Gibson. <em>What Women Want?<\/em> Give me a break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I saw Charlie Chaplin was in the 1931 film City Lights. In my ignorance, I thought that the particular scene was a strange one, the Tramp was in a locker room with a brutish boxer towering above &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/2007\/03\/02\/the-feminine-male\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/craiggrazianohmygod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}