Selfie Haiku Cosplay thoughts
Thursday before class I thought:
1. What is the pleasure/
That we derive from looking?/
What are its effects?/
#haiku
2. Does what we look at/
Suffer any damages/
From desirous gaze?/
#haiku
3. Is anything gained/
From being beauty’s object?/
(Or just the lookers?)/
#haiku
4. What if the beauty/
Comes from clever artifice/
Not biology?/
#haiku
During class on Friday a couple of students argued that selfies, even sexy selfies are not created with pornification in mind. They are made so that the takers can celebrate a day that they felt good about how they looked (of course the porn aesthetic might still be in their double consciousness).
At Comicon on Sunday I went to the comix chix panel assembled by Kate Kotler and I learned about cosplay and people’s motives for dressing up. These haiku combine these related thoughts.
5. Beautiful selfies/
Young women take themselves/
Aren’t “pornography”/
#haiku
6. Some derive pleasure/
Of a prurient nature/
(That’s accidental)/
#haiku
7. Selfies are taken/
To remember that moment/
Keep a night’s beauty/
#haiku
8. Lookers may see porn/
In women’s youthful beauty’s/
Like having Black skin/
#haiku
9. Racists and sexists/
Minimize humanity/
To control the world/
#haiku
10. Obscuring beauty/
To avoid pleasuring pervs/
Lets sexism win/
#haiku
11. Racism won’t end/
When Blacks act just like white folk/
Just like the burqa/
#haiku
12. Police sexism/
Privilege’s deviance/
Is the problem here/
#haiku
13. Selfies like Cosplay/
Are innocent engagement/
In this modern world/
#haiku
14. Lets raise up the floor/
Not lower this world’s ceiling/
On Internet geeks*/
#haiku *girls, life
15. Selfies and Cosplay/
Have parallel importance/
The self and other/
#haiku
16. Personal actions/
Amplified by Internet/
Still people’s choices/
#haiku
17. We should not limit/
Ourselves for those imprisoned/
By pre-fab desire/
#haiku
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