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Jan 29 2009, 11:54 PM
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And here we go. This Turner woman, who I presume is some sort of celebrity in Britain(?), is posing as Madonna in a recent magazine issue.
Turner kind of cites Madonna as some sort of role model for aging sexuality. I knew this was going to happen, I just knew it. And it's only going to get worse the older Madonna gets.
About the only positive thing I can say about this is that this Turner person recognizes that Madonna is too much of an 'exercise-a-holic,' and her attitude is clear that she does not support the "live your life 24/7 in a gym" lifestyle that Madonna does.
~This link was cross posted to the 'Madonna Look Alikes or Impersonators' thread.~
Anthea Turner does a Madonna in revealing photo shoot - Anthea Turner, the television presenter and former Blue Peter star, has posed for a magazine in thigh-high boots, white knickers and bandaged chest in an attempt to emulate Madonna.
By Anita Singh, Showbusiness Editor Last Updated: 10:21AM GMT 28 Jan 2009
The 48-year-old said her aim was to prove women can look fantastic in middle-age.
The "raunchy" pictures are a copy of Madonna's recent photoshoot for the album Hard Candy.
"I've got a huge amount of respect for Madonna - she's often labelled a control freak but she's just a perfectionist. There's a difference between looking tacky and artistic, and I think Madonna looks incredible. You can celebrate your body whatever age you are - there's no limit," said Turner, who recreated the poses for Closer magazine.
Turner, who is two years younger than Madonna, weighs 8st 7lbs and is a size 8-10, claimed she keeps in shape without resorting to the Material Girl's hardcore exercise regime.
"I wanted to recreate her pose to show people that it is possible to be toned and well turned-out without undergoing a super-manic fitness and eating regime. Staying in fantastic shape has less to do with what you put in your mouth - it's all about exercising to get your metabolic rate up. I've never dieted, but naturally opt for healthier foods. I can't remember the last time I had a takeaway or a burger, but if I fancied pigging out on bags of M&Ms, I would.
"I'm really proud of my flat tummy, although I've had to work hard for it - and I haven't had kids."
Turner recently disclosed that she may be forced to sell the 57-acre Surrey estate she shares with husband Grant Bovey following the collapse of his Ł100 million property empire.
Once the golden girl of British television, Turner's career faltered when she took up with Bovey and never recovered from pictures taken at their wedding, in which the happy couple appeared to be promoting a chocolate bar. She has reinvented herself as a cleaning guru in BBC Three series Perfect Housewife, and recently signed up as the face of Flash cleaning products.
Photo of Turner posing as Madonna did, in the same ugly ensemble:

Anthea Turner as Madonna:
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Jan 30 2009, 01:06 AM
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Um...lay off the surgery eh? Why do her boobs look so weird?
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Jan 30 2009, 01:28 AM
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Um...lay off the surgery eh? Why do her boobs look so weird?
Don't know if you saw it or not but the photo you see in my post above is not of Madonna- it's a woman named Turner who dressed up like Madonna for a photo shoot.
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Jan 30 2009, 07:10 PM
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I know it's not Madonna. This Turner Lady seems to be a huge fan of the botox/nipppingtucking stuff too.
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Anthea's body looks okay, but those pictures are really horrible. She looks really awkward in those photos and it shows in her face (she looks like she's straining'. Plus, that outfit, if you can call it an outfit, is so hideous...nobody could ever make that look good.
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Jan 31 2009, 12:40 AM
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I know it's not Madonna.
Oh, okay. I was unclear if you knew it was someone else and not Madonna.
I hope I didn't come across as condescending; I was just trying to clarify.
It's pukey that people are looking to Madonna as a role model on how to age, or how to be sexy as they get older.
In the 1980s and into the mid 1990s, we were bombarded with the falsehoods that she was a "feminist role model," that's she's a savvy business woman that other women should emulate, that she cared about homosexuals, etc, etc., and now we're going to be faced with pundits citing her as a role model for senior citizen sexiness.
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Plus, that outfit, if you can call it an outfit, is so hideous...nobody could ever make that look good. I agree. That outfit wouldn't look good on anyone of any age. (I opined on that more in the "Bad Fashion" thread, so I won't get into it there.)
I wish I had saved the link, but there was this funny news story of some old British guy who was bragging that his 50 (or was it 60? 70?) year old wife has a better body than Madonna's.
There were photos of this lady in her bikini, and he was right- she had a nicer body. She wasn't all mannish looking like Madonna is.
Ah, here it is (and this page has photos of the lady in her bikini)- Why my wife Debbie McGee looks better than Madonna, by Paul Daniels- By Jo Clements
22nd January 2009
When pictures of her in a bikini were splashed across the newspapers earlier this week, she may have been surprised.
But now Debbie McGee will be mortified.
After the original photos attracted some unfavourable comments her husband Paul Daniels jumped to her defence - saying she was better looking than Madonna.
Unfortunately he chose to illustrate his point with a photo of her bending over in a bathing suit, her bottom in the air, and another very intimate shot of her cleavage.
Daniels, 70, is clearly very proud of his wife of 20 years, his magical assistant.
BTW, I notice that the comments in the reader comment section on that page that defend Madonna have been voted down a lot! :clap:
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Jan 31 2009, 08:38 PM
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Oh DISGUSTING!! Anathea Turner is another dumb Brit in my adopted second home of England that is a Madonna apologist and this is just SO SAD! Anathea Turner and Madonna both look so masculine and pathetic. She's having money problems so I'm not going to be mean but I swear if she dumps her Madonna worship her life WILL turn around!
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I actually saw some idiot in the comment section of one blog today say something like,
'Madonna is the reason why women age 40+ can now wear sexy clothes, be sexy, and get away with it. Before Madonna, age 40+ women had to wear polyester pants.'
(Never mind Cher, Debbie Harry, or Tina Turner, who were all sexy and came along before Madonna did and all hit age 40 before she did.)
I told you guys that would happen.
I told you Madonna would get credited with "senior citizen sexiness" even though she is most certainly not the only, or first, age 40+ woman to dress or act sexy.
Although I was expecting to see that false line of reasoning trotted out by journalists first, not by fans and other "nobodies" on blogs and boards.
Just because Madonna does something, she gets credited with it.
Even if she's not the one to do whatever it was first, she still gets credited with it.
Or, you get your journalists who say, "Okay, so she didn't originate "X," but she stole it so cleverly! You must admire that!"
Uh, no. That would be a little like asking me to admire the Nazis:
"Look, they were evil bastards, and it was sick for them to try and kill all the Jews, but you gotta admit, they were so efficient, what with the ovens and gas chambers!"
Whether someone is clever or successful at whatever immoral thing they're doing still doesn't excuse it in the first place
(And it's debatable if she's even 'clever' at using other people's ideas.
I'd say George Lucas, who created an entire universe based off ancient mythology is talented at it, not Madonna. He took other people's ideas but turned most of those ideas into something new and unique.)
So Madonna wears a sexy dress and poses slutty in a photo spread, and we're all supposed to think she's the one who makes it acceptable or hip or trendy for a woman age 50+ to be sexy? 
I'll give her the benefit of the doubt hygiene-wise and assume she brushes and flosses her teeth every day... Am I supposed to think that tooth-brushing and flossing are hip and cool now just because she does it? Puh-leeze.
Why would anyone look to Madonna for approval or permission?
If you're a woman age 40+ or 50+, why would you feel inhibited to dress a certain way until Madonna does it?
I wouldn't look to Madonna for cues, clues, or lifestyle choices.
Especially since she has fumbled the ball so often.
I wouldn't take my cue from a 50+ year old woman who thinks being sexy at age 50 means trying to look or dress like a 20 year old.
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Feb 15 2009, 10:56 PM
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Just because Madonna does something, she gets credited with it.[/QUOTE] Aint that a shame
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I posted about this Sharon Stone story in the "Granny Porn" thread in the other forum.
This mentions Madonna a couple of times:
Sharon Stone topless on magazine cover: The trend continues- At the risk of sounding like a broken record, yet another Hollywood celebrity can be viewed without her shirt this week. (All I can say is thank goodness it's Friday.)
We just got done shaking our head over the Vanessa Hudgens nude pics.
Now comes Sharon Stone - mommy, actress, humanitarian - on the cover of Paris Match magazine in a high-waisted bondage corset that isn't high enough to cover her breasts.
Sharon Stone, it must be said, is 51. And we're fairly certain she's darn proud of herself for this. The defiant look in her eyes and legs-spread stance in sky-high black stilettos say as much.
"Enough with the 50-year-old nudes/'I’m Proud of my Body,'" requests a post at one Web site showing the pics.
"Why hasn’t anyone discussed the pathetic desperation behind all of this?
"Shouldn’t the Madonnas and Sharon Stones and whomevers be happy with their unbelievable success?
"This so diminishes them. Madonna and Sharon Stone were supposedly the completely ballsy broads who challenged men and their concept of women. Not so much now I guess. The more things change the more they stay the same."
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Aug 27 2009, 09:44 AM
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I decided to put this here. It's a You Tube parody that's absolutely hilarious. A must see.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05BMCwr4A6Q
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Too lazy to make a "Sharon Stone" thread.
If Manny loses this poll, someone feel free to cross post this to the "Madonna beaten in a poll" thread.
Sharon vs. Madge: Who'd You Rather?- Posted Dec 8th 2009 2:45PM by TMZ Staff
Blonde 51-year-old MILFs Sharon Stone and Madonna stormed through D.C. and NYC respectively this weekend.
[snip pix]
A few reader comments from their page:- 2. Madonna is an ugly, no talent PIG!!!
Posted at 4:59PM on Dec 8th 2009 by Don't Question Authority!!!
3. They are both nasty, ZERO Talent HAGS!
Where is the "neither" choice???
Posted at 5:20PM on Dec 8th 2009 by riottgirl
4. Damn! Madonna is starting to resemble Betty Davis in "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane! http://www.bochynski.com/charlespierce/images/babyjane.jpg
Must be the results of all that wild living she did in the 1980's!
Posted at 5:21PM on Dec 8th 2009 by WTH?
5. ok...Sharon Stone looks JUST LIKE Jane Fonda in that picture. I'd say neither on this one. Both of these hos look like they've had too much work done. They've lived some hard lives.
Posted at 5:22PM on Dec 8th 2009 by meechee 7. If you hadn't identified them I wouldn't have recognized either one. And not in a good way really.
Posted at 5:35PM on Dec 8th 2009 by Hexy 8. Well if you've ever seen the picture of madonna when she was young and posing nude, there's no way you'd ever pick her! Let's just say a hedge-trimmer would be grossly inadequate.
Posted at 5:37PM on Dec 8th 2009 by moe l.
9. It's sad that madonna couldn't grow old gracefully like sharon stone. Madonna is looking more and more like a ballooned out catwoman - and it is so unbecoming. Couple that with her fake accent and she is not going to age well. I thought Madonna was much older than 51 and I was going to say she looks good for her age, but only being 51, and already having all that surgery, not good.
Posted at 5:36PM on Dec 8th 2009 by culturelady
11. Sharon probably has had less toxic sexual partners than Moodanna, less chance of STD's.
Posted at 5:42PM on Dec 8th 2009 by tomas
12. Once again TMZ you need to provide a "neither" option on your polls...we all know you might want to f**k both Madonna and Sharon Stone but us people living in the real world wouldn't touch either of these...things with a ten foot pole.
Posted at 6:07PM on Dec 8th 2009 by JeepFu
13. Madonnan is just a skank. She's not attractive or sexy in any way what so ever.
Posted at 6:13PM on Dec 8th 2009 by pp
15. Madge needs to lay off the booze.
Posted at 6:33PM on Dec 8th 2009 by joe
16. Can there please be an option to select "neither"
Posted at 6:39PM on Dec 8th 2009 by charlie
17. They are both starting to look old and puffy and soon to be wrinkley. Oh well...they had their fun. You know what they say..."you can't put a price tag on youth and beauty". That ship has now sailed for these 2. Buh-bye !
Posted at 6:52PM on Dec 8th 2009 by Denver
18. What on earth has happened to Madonna? It looks like she gained weight or got bad plastic surgery on her face!
Posted at 6:54PM on Dec 8th 2009 by Carl
19. I guess Madonna was the one who opened the door to all those untalented pop stars. I pick Sharon Stone. MILFS RULE!
Posted at 7:00PM on Dec 8th 2009 by Icebaby
20. Who'd you rather? Out of these two heartless fur hags? Both of them ought to really think about their heartless fashion choice of wearing fur. They are disgusting, both of them.
Posted at 7:05PM on Dec 8th 2009 by carole raphaelle davis
21. No matter how old she gets, Sharon Stone has such perfect bone structure & facial symmetry, she'll never looks bad.
Posted at 7:34PM on Dec 8th 2009 by natt
22. Sharon Stone is aging well. She looks like she's had only minimal surgery to freshen her up. Madonna has gone way overboard and is starting to look like that Jocelyn Wildenstein freak. I shudder to think what she will look like in ten years.
Posted at 7:35PM on Dec 8th 2009 by Mercy Me
23. Never found Madonna very sexual, just hyped and emaciated. Don't know much about Sharon Stone but at least she's always looked healthier and far more integrated.
Posted at 8:00PM on Dec 8th 2009 by PolarBear
24. Sharon always has natural beauty on her side, even though she's older. Who wouldn't want her nose! Perfect & Natural!
Madonna, on the other hand, is hard and now her filled face looks distorted.
Posted at 8:04PM on Dec 8th 2009 by Mari
25. Madonna is starting to look like JOAN RIVERS. eek. Sharon Stone was always so pretty but now, she's so thin that the looks old and drawn.
Posted at 9:05PM on Dec 8th 2009 by Gia
26. yea, neither one. madonna is a confused person who's religious or spiritual views are disrespectful to everyone else's views. and she's dating someone name jesus. sharon stone, you know there are many actresses who still look young despite how old they are, and she just doesn't pull it off. and lindsay lohan already looks like her at stone's age.
Posted at 8:55PM on Dec 8th 2009 by trishi 27. Yea...they both have that long chin "Sunset Blvd" look. Age and gravity...death and taxes....it's all a b***h.
Posted at 9:40PM on Dec 8th 2009 by Denver
28. Anyone who does those hoes better double bag it with gold-plated condoms.
Posted at 10:11PM on Dec 8th 2009 by Bobo Frog
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I have cross-posted this to a few other threads already. I have added one or two new observations to this, below the article.
Emphasis via bold face type added by me:
Monsters Inc.? The Lady Gaga And Madonna Parade- by Elizabeth Scalia
Feb 1, 2010
[snip first several paragraphs]
...Certainly, Gaga is a bit derivative. Much of her choreography and staging owes acknowledgment to Madonna, Michael Jackson and David Bowie, and she is currently busting the record charts with what boils down to fleshed-out house music presented with verve and humor.
.... Nearly 30 years ago, we were told that Madonna was a "genius," particularly at marketing and reinventing herself, but time has not borne that out. Her music has held up well, but Madonna herself has been a dead-bore for decades, largely because her marketing and reinventing always come down to sex. But sex — thanks in part to Madonna, herself — has long ceased to be a daring or provocative subject.
Madonna tried standing conventionality on its head with an idea that began and ended with embracing the inner sex object, but her art flowed along very conventional lines of what bad and good (or chastity and promiscuity) meant. Madonna's exploration of human sexuality lacked real depth; after her cone bras and pinstriped girdles, she had no more tricks up her sleeve.
Gaga, on the other hand, is advising the world to embrace the inner monster, and this is a much more daring proposition; our objectifying ourselves as sexual beings might be easier to cop to — in any age — than the admission that we each of us house "inner monsters" of ego, selfishness, rage, manipulation or superior disdain.
Lady Gaga has assigned herself the role of monster's cheerleader. She says, "Be the monster! I love your monster!" What she does not say — because she cannot yet know — is where the unleashing of millions of pent-up monsters may lead.
Gaga will have to work on that if she is to sustain her hold on the public's imagination. Madonna could find no road back from the Land of Saturated Sex; if she had something interesting to say about post-menopausal sex, or how diminishing sex drives open other paths to fulfillment, she might be able to find resolution to her early ideas. But she [Madonna] seems uninterested in going there, and so we are forced to page past her yearly airbrushed crotch-shots as she beats a sad and worn-out theme to death.
Lady Gaga is a good musician, therefore she understands the need for resolution. That may help her to move beyond the initial monster call-out.
If she cannot, she will fall as quickly as she has risen, having unleashed onto a generation an idea that, like Madonna’s mindless sex fest, is ultimately empty, bleak and unhelpful. Even monsters need purpose and redemptive love, as Mary Shelley knew, or there is no place for them but exile.
Regarding these comments:- Madonna could find no road back from the Land of Saturated Sex; if she had something interesting to say about post-menopausal sex, or how diminishing sex drives open other paths to fulfillment, she might be able to find resolution to her early ideas. But she [Madonna] seems uninterested in going there, and so we are forced to page past her yearly airbrushed crotch-shots as she beats a sad and worn-out theme to death.
Here's the bad thing:
Even if Madonna herself doesn't try to make an issue out of "senior citizen sex," just the mere fact that she keeps trying to dress and act like a 25 year old hooker in her personal life, in her music videos and in tours, when she's well into her 60s, 70s and 80s, will... (1) cause idiotic feminist college professors to think Madonna is intentionally trying to do so, even if she is not, and they will congratulate her for this;
Or, (2) at the very least, the feminist college professors and journalists will say, "We realize she's not intentionally trying to start a senior citizen sex revolution," but they credit Madonna with it anyway.
The weenies (academics) in the 1980s and 1990s did that same thing with feminism and Madonna.
They spun Madonna's trashy antics to mean something more than what is was; they wanted us to believe that Madonna grabbing her crotch on stage was a profound statement of female rights when it was in fact no such thing.
I can see these same kind of blockheads doing the same thing with Grandma-donna when she turns 65 and is still posing half naked for magazines.
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This was cross posted to another thread There's nothing sexy about these photos.
The 3rd photo down is especially hideous, IMO (click here to view that image). 
Madonna at work: Another day at the office as singer strips off for photoshoot- There aren't many 51-year-olds who would be happy stripping down to their underwear in front of an audience. Let alone striking a provocative pose with a younger man.
But after years of outrageous outfits it was just another day at the office for Madonna.
The singer was surrounded by a team of helpers as she shot the advertising shots for her new MDG sunglasses collection.
The range, designed in collaboration with her close friends Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, is set to be launched this month.
Madonna wore fishnet stockings, a black leotard and a crucifix for the advert.
But while the outfit may be racy, it pales in comparison to some of her other costumes.
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More desperation. Nothing shocking about the photos, I guess her new idea of controversy is posing with someone young enough to be her grandson. This just drips with desperation. Plus that bright lipstick makes her look her age.
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This photo of her crawling on a bed is more silly and ridiculous than "sexy."
The following photo is hosted on this page:
I'm still the cat's whiskers! Madonna prowls around with eye-popping cleavage on show in Dolce&Gabanna advert
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 Oh jeeze. I think it has begun. I didn't think we'd start seeing this stuff until, I dunno, ten or more years from now. A long time ago - like about 2, 3 years ago at the old board - I said if Grandma-donna continues in show business, she may very well continue posing as a sex kitten in photo spreads and music videos, even up into her 80s. I further predicted that the fawning media and college professors would use that to say, - "There goes that trail blazing, taboo-breaking Madonna again! There she goes defying the stereotype that women over the age of X cannot be sexy and dress sleazy!
And then we'd have to endure news paper articles or t.v. show hosts blathering on about how 75 year old women can wear mini-skirts, because Madonna is doing it, and isn't that swell. I see a foreshadowing of that thinking in articles such as this - [snip article] ^Remember that, from 2006?
Here's more foreshadowing of it, from-
Airbrushing is not our friend- by Sarrah Le Marquand
We demand they [celebrities] look perfect and somehow withstand the ravages of time. And when that proves impossible and they call on a little help from their Photoshopping friends, we condemn them for contributing to the vicious cycle that exists.
But someone has to go first. And it might as well be Madonna, she's built a career on being controversial. What better way to get everyone talking than embracing the natural look, protruding veins and all?
If advertisers expect us to accept Madonna scrubs floors, is it really so hard to believe a woman might refuse to erase her laugh lines?
Or that a day might even come when the sight of an unairbrushed famous face no longer causes an uproar?
Oh no. No no no.
Do NOT set Madonna up as the brave, trail blazing, taboo-breaking woman who will finally stand up to alleged sexist / patriarchal idea of mature feminine sexuality by continuing to dress and act as though she's 25 year old, wearing little skimpy frocks in magazine ads, well up into her 80s.
Just as she is falsely credited for being feminist and for "breaking boundaries" for females back when she was in her 20s and 30s, she is starting to get on the receiving end of this kind of nonsense now that she's age 50+.
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 Oh jeeze. I think it has begun. I didn't think we'd start seeing this stuff until, I dunno, ten or more years from now. A long time ago - like about 2, 3 years ago at the old board - I said if Grandma-donna continues in show business, she may very well continue posing as a sex kitten in photo spreads and music videos, even up into her 80s. I further predicted that the fawning media and college professors would use that to say, - "There goes that trail blazing, taboo-breaking Madonna again! There she goes defying the stereotype that women over the age of X cannot be sexy and dress sleazy!
And then we'd have to endure news paper articles or t.v. show hosts blathering on about how 75 year old women can wear mini-skirts, because Madonna is doing it, and isn't that swell. Yep.
Here's another editorial saying how great it is that a trashy woman is still continuing to act trashy into her 50s, and that she's a boundary breaker for older woman in regards to their sexuality:
Madonna's Mighty Menopausal Comeback: (Still) Sexy Or (Still) Selling Sex?- Still I can’t help but view Madonna’s success as against-all-odds. The multi-hyphenate singer-dancer, actress, producer and now film writer and director (W.E. premiered in January) has stayed buzz-worthy for over three decades, through life stages in which a woman is often expected to take a step back, or, at the very least, tone it down. Madonna’s done no such thing.
Marriage didn’t slow her appetite for controversy, nor did motherhood.
Now she’s passed the ultimate benchmark for women’s sexuality—menopause, when women are often and overwhelmingly considered past their prime—and is on television in a music video so overt it nearly wasn’t approved for airing.
...“This latest return of Madonna to the spotlight is no different than what she’s done in the past,” Diller [Vivian Diller, Ph.D.] says. “She’s bringing back some of what she used to represent—and her breaking sexual boundaries has always been a part of that—but at the same time becoming something more, an icon to a generation of women who want to remain vital, creative and, yes, sexual, even as they age.”
But how long can she keep it up? At a rate of an album-every-three-years, Madonna will be 60 when she releases her final record under the latest Interscope deal. Will Madonna’s sexuality at 60 be as acceptable as at 53?
Even Diller is skeptical. “What I hope,” she says, “and my sense is that Madonna is savvy enough to know this, is that she not try to be 25-year-old Madonna at 53, but to redefine what sexuality at 53 looks like.”
“The risk and the challenge of becoming an attractive, appealing woman in your 50s and 60s is to let go of what once was,” Diller says, and to focus and perfect who you have become. Because while Madonna is surely an anomaly among women (I mean, seriously, just look at her), she is, in fact, human.
“There is a point, no matter who you are, what financial means you have or personal trainer you employ that things inevitably change with age,” she says.
“And that’s a challenge for any woman, particularly one in the spotlight. But if she can allow it to happen, and let it become a part of her public image, then she’ll continue to be a role model for multiple generations of women.” And this quote from earlier on that same page actually supports what I have been saying for years - her only legitimate fame was the mid 80s, and beyond that, she's been riding her own coat tails (thanks to the media):- Don’t think of her as a 53-year old, Octagon First Call’s David Schwab scolds me. “Madonna is Madonna.”
Like Marilyn Monroe, Schwab, who heads celebrity brand management for the entertainment and sports marketing firm, says Madonna is simply iconic.
When we think of Monroe, she’s in a white dress standing over a subway grate–no matter what period of her 30-year career we’re discussing. Similarly, he says, “When we watch, buy, consume Madonna, we’re consuming Madonna from the early ‘80s,” a nubile and irreverent 20-something. A good girl gone bad. And please Do. Not. Compare. Madonna. To. Marilyn Monroe. EVER.
Madonna does not deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as Marilyn, unless it's to call her out on all her Marilyn thefts.
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Somebody posted this in FB, first thought duh, then I realized look at this! And then I remembered the HAG!  Compare again, really something is wrong with grannydonna. https://www.facebook.com/FitnessWorkouts
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As I pointed out in the first post in this thread several years ago, the media have laid the groundwork.
Their template is now, every time Madonna rubs her crotch in a video or flops her boobs out in a photo shoot, is that women of any and every age should be allowed to be sexy, you can still be sexy at Age X, stop telling women at Age X they should be mature, stop dressing sexy, etc.
I can see this going on indefinitely.
Though I wonder, the writers who are defending Madonna for flopping her pancakes out (they are only appearing huge in some photos because they are photoshopped, or crammed in bustiers and push up bras) will continue to do this when she is 73 or 85 and still doing so?
These people who are praising her for flopping her boobs out at 56 (thanks to Photoshop/ Push Up Bras), will they still be doing this when she's still doing this at 86?
Here's a reminder - she gets help: Obvious Alterations in Manny's Photo; - photoshopped to remove wrinkles etc
Cosmetic Procedures / Plastic Surgery
Copied from another thread: -------------------------------- I don't think a percentage of people automatically think 46 or 56 year old woman are un-sexy or physically unattractive -I know that the dude bro idiots who are into PUA think that way - but I don't think a portion of people necessarily think a 55 year old woman is not sexy - though some may.
I do think there is a perception among Americans that women lose all sex appeal after age 35 or 39.
My impression is that people are against Madonna posing topless past 50 because it's all she ever does (that's my issue with it, she has always used sex to get media attention), and, posing topless seems like the province of young air heads. It seems a cheap way of getting attention.
Some of the stuff below was from the "Barfy" thread. One of these turned up today and is new
And to the lady who wrote the one editorial below? There is most certainly a stigma against women when they turn 40.
Women 40 and over get the message constantly that they are not considered sexy anymore - though that one may be slowly changing, as I've seen a spate or editorials that argue that 40 somethings are hot. But it's false to act like only women past 50 get static over this stuff.
I don't think women pop singers of any age should be relying on raunch to get attention or keep their careers going, and I don't care what the age is.
As to this one woman writer saying "Madonna looks great for her age," what does that mean? Does she mean "real life" Madonna - who apparently gets massive cosmetic surgeries and fillers on her face - or does she mean After-Photoshopped Madonna, the airbrushed images we see in magazines?
Go nuts with those hooters, Madonna - you're still sexy - New Zealand Herald-11 hours ago
So Madonna's nipple-freeing photo shoot this week was always going to spark conversation. Like every artist, poet, or drunken heckler since ... Madonna is smokin' hot in Versace shoot - and proves she's still got it- Highly Cited-Mirror.co.uk -Dec 4, 2014
...And latest images from a photoshoot prove the Like A Virgin singer has still got what it takes.
Showing off her super toned bod, Madonna channels a vampish look with dark lips, smoky eyes and tousled tresses. Madonna got her boobs out at 56 - so what? Why it's alright to be a ... Now Magazine Online (blog)-Dec 6, 2014 (the link)
These are excerpts. I am not going to include the entire editorial here: - by Sarah Tetteh
Madonna got her boobs out at 56 - so what? Why it's alright to be a middle-aged mum and still be sexy
A mum of Madonna's age is still allowed to be sexy, says writer Sarah Tetteh
Madonna rocks - what's wrong with flashing the flesh once you're over 50?
When Kate Moss stripped for Playboy to mark her 40th birthday, no-one batted an eyelid, so why all the comeback on the not-so-matronly Madonna?
She's the undisputed 'grandmother of pop', and hats off to Madonna for ramping up her raunch factor so much so that she is making single girls half her age quake in their boots.
We're talking about you Lady Gaga. Madonna, who's a mother of four, still finds time to work out and look fabulous, so much so that she is brandishing her belly in a crop top in a sensational shoot for Versace, after Madge, aged 56, was picked to replace pop tartlet Gaga, 28, as the face of the brand.
It comes just days after she ‘artistically' flashed her boobs, which are surprisingly perky, as she announced her latest bid to reinvent herself.
And it worked. Her bid to get noticed again got her back on the front pages and almost dwarfed Kim Kardashian's bid to break the internet with her notorious booty.
While critics have hit out at Madonna for still stripping off at her age and for being a mum, others think it is empowering and a celebration of the female form no matter what age you are and certainly being a mother should not stop you from being sexy.
I caught up with an expert in the field Miss Polly Rae, whose fab Soho Burlesque Club at London's The Hippodrome Theatre twice a week has inspired superstars including Kylie to explore their inner sexiness.
She said: ‘It's about celebrating the female form regardless of any insecurities you might have. I grew up a shy person, I was flat chested and the local boys would pick on me. But I was inspired by Madonna and burlesque gave me the outlet to express myself. Kylie has always been a massive supporter too.'
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