After that last post, I'm going to stick in one that's a little less whiny. Angsty. Whatever.
Anyway, as I suggested a couple posts back, I found an asexual sort of viewpoint in that song, "The Internet is for Porn" from Avenue Q. I love that song- it's hysterical. For anyone who hasn't heard it, first of all- Youtube. Second of all, just so you can keep reading, in a nutshell it's about a girl who's "teaching a lesson" (I don't actually know what's going on, but that's how the song begins) about the internet and is going on about how great it is while another character interjects the phrase "for porn". Like this-
"The internet is really really great (for porn)
I have a fast connection so I don't have to wait (for porn!)"
And then the girl gets upset and tells the other character off because of course the internet is not for porn at all! She points out to other characters what sort of chaste things they do while online- shop, pay bills, send e-cards and stuff like that. Then the other character objects, "But what you think they do after?"
And they all admit that, yes, after they look at porn. The girl is totally disgusted. She can't believe that "normal people" would look at porn online. Never occurred to her and it disgusts her once it's pointed out. Totally sounds like something from the "Incredibly Ase Moments" thread on AVEN (which I love and read religiously).
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You know, the blatantly sexual surface of that song kept me from realizing how asexy it really was, haha. But it does read like an ase moment. Love it! I saw the show a couple years ago, and IIRC, the girl is a kindergarten teacher, planning her class for the next day.
ReplyDeleteThis is annwyl_cariad from AVEN, btw. And I'm following your blog now. (:
You're right, it's quite the asexual moment. I think the female character is just too much of a romantic to acknowledge porn. Like in the 'mixtape' song, where she reads all this stuff into a mixtape that a guy is actually making for all his friends. I'm not a big fan of musicals, but I saw Avenue Q about 2 years ago and it was great! Gotta say, the porn song might be my favorite because it's just too funny.
ReplyDeleteNot to rag on my Mom, but the next story is a bit about her too. I love the movie Master and Commander and at one point she commented "Yeah, a movie with all those men..." and again, that wasn't it. I think the Age of Sail is cool, end of story. Being asexual, I saw it as just a great movie with a lot of guys in it.
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