IN TREATMENT: Sex In The Gossip Girl Universe
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Discussed: Advantageous Misinformation In Capitalism, The New York Narrative, Bacchus Was A Raver, George Lucas Just Had To Remaster (Ruin) ‘THX-1138,’ Arundhati Roy Said To Capitalize Important Things, Staying Power of Sexual Double Standards, Well Coiffed Love Triangles, ‘Zabriskie Point’, Metaphors of Snow, André Bazin, Grammar Is Not Our Forté – Forgiveness Is Yours,
GROWN-UP GRAVITY IN THE HYPERSEXUALIZED ADVERTISING AGE
Yet another misnomer we Modern Men of Gossip Girl face, is the uncorrected-by-the-CW notion that Gossip Girl is a show by, about and for gallivanting-around-New York, sexed up pretty young things with randy one track minds engaging in unquantifiably hot hot hot around the clock Bacchanalias of Penthouse-ian excess. While dismissive headshakes and Puritanical THX tisking initially resonated throughout our doubting friends, once we explicated GGs thought-out, grown up, tempered and utterly mannered depiction of teen sexuality, the hubristic shroud of doubt slowly began to fade away. (…)
