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By Daniel Link
What's new in Argentina society?
do not remember seeing on television, before last Friday, showing pictures of young Argentine police's ass. Since, moreover, do not know anything about football culture, I do not know if it is a normal behavior in soccer as a manifestation of defiance (I think, however, that some player has shown his ass as a sign of triumph for having committed a goal, with the approximate sense of "bésenme ass, I deserve it.")
That yes, he knew the gesture by American films and The Simpsons, where it is common for the girl shows her ass through the car window when you want to annoy a driver side. Invariably it is seen as the greater offense can: born and persecution more ominous and deadly. But I always struggled to find the exact meaning of this gesture (perhaps of Celtic origin, what do I know: it's up in Braveheart). No kinetic (or theory of bodily gestures and behaviors) had been able to help so far. Because it was enough to see these guys showing Argentine police's ass in front of Congress to understand everything.
is much more interesting to analyze the "mostradita" (as an emergency, perhaps, of the new Argentina that continues to creep into the neighborhood assemblies and street demonstrations today), for example, grab the package as a sign of defiance. In the gripping, meaning clearer and more universal, is only saying "Come, take" (in all cultures). The one shown in the ass, for me, remained more ambiguous, more elusive, more labile. Until now.
The gesture means "Come, break me your ass if you're male." If the other does not accept the challenge, recognized to be less macho than the provocateur. If accepted, the challenging task of demonstrating that it is unwilling to surrender without a fight. I suppose in the context of a rather classical psychoanalysis, or rather wild, the gesture could be interpreted in the context of a general theory of hysteria: "Look what I give you, if (and only if) you're so macho as to deserve "(that is, on the other hand, the same as saying Runaway Bride, that delightful American movie whose script is a paragon of wit). In the context of cultural studies, the whole theory about the stigmatization of sexual behavior could shed light on the matter (the "manhood" as courage, manliness associated with the active role, the "honor" associated with the invulnerability of the ass, homophobia). The history of mentalities bring his own (the ecclesiastical condemnation of all non-reproductive sexual behavior-especially in the Middle Ages, when people died to the plague bug and had to ensure the survival of the species, for example). In short, many things could be said about the reasons that made "show ass" a unity of meaning in the general scheme of the gestures of defiance. But so far, the significance of that sign on the system as part, again, I was dark.
is not only lawful but advantageous (because it makes better understanding of the tensions in society) to analyze, within a general body kinetic, the gesture of showing your ass to find its meaning and value difference and, even, dialectal. Compare the Argentine boy shown with similar American (or British). The differences are striking: the U.S., to show your ass, it seems that only "kiss my ass." The Argentine boy, meanwhile, shake your ass best, it offers more and better, enjoy displaying his buttocks. If I could (unlike Jim Carey) to speak to his ass with grace, I would without hesitation. That's the difference between Argentina and shown shown Anglo-Saxon. While the Anglo proposes only a kiss worse than Judas, Argentina is full of lubricity and pride (which was obvious in the indecision of the boys the other day, who doubted whether to offer the spectacle of her buttocks challenging the police youth or TV cameras), the challenge is mixed with the offering.
Argentines, after all, have always been conscious of having the best beef in the world (be it true or a myth.) No need to remember how fond of showing their asses the stars of reality shows vernacular. I remember that was even one of the items awarded Marley in one of his unfortunate interventions television.
The Italians, who are being asses as much or more displayable Argentines boast a southern assault in connection with such bravado. For their part, the Brazilians know, like a lot of ass show, but the context in which they do in general is another, which excludes the challenge or subordinated to the logic (rebellious, but less belligerent) of the carnival.
So, the economy gesture of defiance, only care about two versions of the mostradita: the U.S. and now ours. The Argentine, who has always been pretty paquetero, it seems that now has discovered the value (the meaning) of that shown as an expression of defiance, strongly tied to a trail libidinal (River Plate product of hysteria, perhaps, or Indian influence, or the tango, God knows: for now would be too risky assumptions about risk). It is as if the boy Argentina while challenged, were suggesting the real possibility of such delivery. In fact, the Argentine people was delivered (more than once) to the seduction of "Macho." The boy says: "I challenge you, but if I you can, give."
are historic times in which not enough to go about displaying the ass. Should know how to save, if you will be saved, the ass of Argentine boys. An old man, at the door of the National Bank during the making of the building by greedy plaintiffs dollars, said (that too, in addition to above, was by Crónica TV): "Neither in Afghanistan is this." You're right.
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