Hurrah! Theme Thursday is upon us again, and my tendency to pick the image and the title before looking at the theme has again seen me located precariously between a rock and a hard place.
Despite what you are all thinking, and notwithstanding the firm, proud-looking member above, the theme today has nothing to do with the sexy world of horticulture. Not one jot. No, today were are talking COLLECTION, and when I think COLLECTION I think “phallus”!
Huh?!?
Phallus.
Well, more precisely, the cruel notion of phallocentrism, or – if you like – the COLLECTION of phalluses that poke and prod their filthy way into every facet of human society!
It’s no point blaming Derrida people. Yes, he was a filthy-minded Frenchman with a predilection for intellectual masturbation [there’s that phallus again], but bear with me here...
Phallocentrism is the notion that the operative principle of culture is male-dominated. MEN!
Just as the phallus is implicitly – and more often explicitly – assumed to be the only significant sexual organ, the masculine is accepted as the central point of reference for society, the only source of validity and authority!
Moreover, everywhere I turn a phallus! Even a pleasant stroll in the park is ruined by the ripe, firm young budding
When will it end?!?
21 comments:
it worries me that you see a phallus everywhere...but still, i love the cactus; does that make me gay?
hope you enjoy the banana...nice cactus, as a phallus it might hurt...
rather confused here, are you saying you collect phallus?
I like your prose , so funny ... The flowers cactus are beautiful !
since when has the phallus been blue? or yellow?
your interpretation of phallus is so broad, next you'll be seeing them in crazy things like cucumbers
Good grief man . . aren't you 'getting any'? Don't answer that. It's none of my business!
Even a prickly little character like a cactus can have its bright moments. Colourful little character isn't it?
Okaaaaaay...wot Roddy said...
Your collection made me smile. Beautiful picture :)
Hey, we all have unique outlooks on the world, no? :)
Very funny. When I went on trips, I'd get my husband a small model of a monument (Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty) until a friend of mind said, "What? You want his office filled phallic world symbols?"
Very funny. When I went on trips, I'd get my husband a small model of a monument (Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty) until a friend of mind said, "What? You want his office filled phallic world symbols?"
Very funny. When I went on trips, I'd get my husband a small model of a monument (Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty) until a friend of mind said, "What? You want his office filled phallic world symbols?"
Sigmund Freud would have had a field day with you! LOL! I enjoyed the post! Very clever!
What Skip said! Happy Theme Thursday!
Looks like you flustered Kate so badly she posted a threepeat! ha!
I don't know about that cactus...being so prikly and all!
When, indeed?!?
There is a festival, complete with a parade in Japan called the festival of the steel phallus. There is also a garden of them where Japanese women can pray for fertility. Google that.
What a gorgeous photograph. Almost good enough to eat. Err...excuse me, I have to go now. :)
In my house I refer to it as penis privilege.
Re; Derrida
He spent his last years dumped in my neck of the woods with some juicy academic position.
Thanks all, I'm struggling to keep up!
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