Chapters: 5/? Fandom: James Bond (Craig movies) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: James Bond/Q Characters: James Bond, Q (James Bond), Eve Moneypenny Additional Tags: MI6 Cafe, 31 days of Bond, but really 12 days of Bond Summary:
MI6 Cafe’s challenge for December is ‘12 Days of Bond’. This is my submission, planned to be a set of 12(ish) drabble(+) chapters filling the prompts and telling a Secret-Santa story, because I haven’t written one of those yet.
So the Tumblr Ethics Committee has decided this post is sensitive and needs to be filtered. Is it the middle finger? The underpants? The hint of pubic hair? Those abs and the unrealistic beauty standard they represent?
I can’t find a single description of what “sensitive” means to Tumblr. It must be different than “adult” because, as we all now know, “adult content primarily includes…real-life human genitals or female-presenting nipples, and any
content…that depicts
sex acts.” This has none of those things.
How can they expect me to comply with their rules if I don’t even know what they are? I mean,
a real life person looked at this and thought, yes, this is unsafe for Tumblr users, and yet I honestly can’t tell what guideline I’ve run afoul of beyond Tumblr’s new We’ll Know It When We See It philosophy.
Perfect post is perfect (and the tags are the snarky, naughty cherry on top). Part of why I haven’t deleted anything from my blog yet, other than trying desperately to back it up as is to WordPress first, is that while I can easily remove the 20 or so posts that I think are now in violation of their policies, but based on what I’m seeing get flagged, ANY partial nudity (including male ankles… so no more pictures of Chris Pine I guess) is getting flagged. As unreasonable as I think their TOS are, the implementation is far more chilling.
(Someone asked for some clips of a talk I gave last term for our “Love Your Body” week on campus. Here’s a few slap-dash cut-and-pasted bits, all pretty basic stuff if you do gender studies. The title of the talk was painfully (ha! pun) ironic–most of the other campus events were about women and body image, especially in regards to weight. How big or small a woman is can determine her self-worth in the culture’s eyes; my general point was the same can be said for men, though it comes from a different direction and involves a different kind of violence.)
Look at these two beautiful men, with their two kinds of beauty:
Obviously, these two tend to get cast in consistently different kinds of roles, and those roles both express and reinforce norms of gender and sexuality. On the one hand, we have the magnificently buff Daniel Craig, whose pectorals are a natural phenomenon. He’s got the action hero body, albeit less overinflated than a Vin Diesel or The Rock; you have to be a bit more elegant than that to play Bond. But his body certainly has the essential masculine ingredient—toughness. You can beat on this body, and it only gets stronger; it hardly seems to feel pain.
Ben Whishaw, on the other hand, is, well, a little slip of a thing. Most of his interviews mention how thin he is, and it’s hard to deny that he looks damn near breakable. “Fragile” is the most popular adjective, followed by “delicate” and “waiflike.” You beat this body up, and it hurts.
For this presentation the most striking (ha! pun) difference is the effect of violence on each.
In Bond’s case, the injuries done to his body–some of which he does to himself–tend to give him more power to act, not less; they are proof of his masculinity and strength. In Whishaw’s case, brutalization objectifies, disempowers, and often destroys him. That’s how these two different male types get coded, and that how they push masculinity toward a hard, emotionally impoverished place through abusive definition of the body.
All of this tumblr fuckery reminds me of something. I was in Australia in 1998, in the height of the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinski scandal.
The Australians were very confused. I mean, of course they thought adultery was bad, but on a scale of 1-10, it was maybe a 2 or 3. Nothing that should tie up the entire damned government for months and put all actual governing on the back burner. They thought the American overreaction was CRAZY.
There was an op-ed in the paper that basically said, “Thank god they got the Puritans and we got the criminals.”
Chapters: 4/? Fandom: James Bond (Craig movies) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: James Bond/Q Characters: James Bond, Q (James Bond), Eve Moneypenny Additional Tags: MI6 Cafe, 31 days of Bond, but really 12 days of Bond Summary:
MI6 Cafe’s challenge for December is ‘12 Days of Bond’. This is my submission, planned to be a set of 12(ish) drabble(+) chapters filling the prompts and telling a Secret-Santa story, because I haven’t written one of those yet.
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