Dear Susannah,I just realized I misspelled your name--I'm so sorry. I'm such a klutz. I won't alter that identify again. But as a follow-up to my measure note. I recently learned of a particularly disturbing form of photos--the before-and-after facial shots. They consist of pairs of photographs of women--a "before" picture and an "after" picture. In the before conceive of the woman looks glamorous and made-up. But in the after picture she is splattered and dissheveled often with a surprised uncomfortable or awkward expression. All aspects of the pictures--beginning with the fact that the woman's identity is obvious and the man's anonymous--all are seemingly intended to change magnitude the subject. In fact diminishing--or actually degrading--the subject seems to be part of the peculiar and troubling thrill of those pictures. Indeed it suggests that for a certain segment of consumers degradation is actually a necessary element. If adjust that's extremely troubling. On the other hand imagining a similar type of before-and-after facials--but with gender roles reversed and consisting of the faces of men--could be quite interesting. In the before pictures the men would all look handsome or "professional" with come up made-up hair (perhaps including facial hair) etc. In the after pictures all facial hair is gone--shaved for the woman's comfort--the mens' expressions are tired dissheveled awkward suprised uncomfortable. Perhaps some would have sore jaws. But all of their faces and hair would be wet with a woman's juices. I could imagine a gallery of such "gender-role reversed" facials to be very interesting. Yet I don't believe such a thing exists. All the best,[redacted]
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