The analogy has some merit, but I think it misses the mark just a bit. The Royal wedding does feed women's innermost fantasy's of marrying a rich, powerful man, but the closest analogy for men is simply, well, pornography. Look at the images. Can anyone but a woman find anything but a mixture of revulsion and hilarity in these hats?The Royal Wedding is chick crack, precisely because it appeals to women’s instinctive fantasy of marrying into power, money, and opulence. It’s the ultimate woman’s dream — getting married to a fantastically rich, powerful leader in a lavish public ceremony...
Crack is a physically addicting commodity. Royal weddings are rare, but highly facinating to a subset of people, much like the world gang-banging contests (Content warning, this site links to an EXTREMELY NSFW site). Unlike crack addicts, women know they can't have a royal wedding spectacle every day, or even once a week, there's just not enough royalty to go around, and they have to make do with faux royalty, movie and entertainment stars, who provide such fantasies for a living.
And much like porn for men, after viewing all the royal wedding images for a while, they have to go back to regular boring life with their regular boring men.
I'll leave the porn analogy alone because I really don't know, but that huge exhibit on on Fergie's daughter in beige is just disgusting and shocking, especially on a day when the bride and the groom should be the focus. She apparently is as silly as her mother.
ReplyDeleteI have one hope for the Monarchy, not under Charles but William. He is a Christian. I'd like to see him do something to encourage Granny, and Daddy now to lobby 10 Downing for a different way to handle Islam in the country.
There is no hope with Parliament.