| Wednesday, November 22, 2000 |
 | Quote of the week, and perhaps of the century -
Because only men have penises, phallic symbols, even if in some sense possessed by women (as may be the case with female rulers, for instance) are always symbols of ultimately male power....This leads to the greatest instability of all for the male image. For the fact is that the penis isn't a patch on the phallus.
Go tell it on the mountain, brother. That from Richard Dyer's article "Don't Look Now", found in Zoot Suits and Second-Hand Dresses, a collection of mid-80s cultural studies essays I recently finished reading. Greil Marcus on "We Are the World" is particularly fun - interesting to note that Lionel Richie co-wrote the song, the chorus of which involves the line "There's a choice we're making", and in the same period starred in Pepsi's promotional campaigns, the motto of which was of course "The choice for a new generation". Clearly it was a decade of choice.
Even more interesting to consider that Lionel Richie was considered the way forwards for Pepsi marketing, porn-star perm and all. The 80s were a strange country....
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