Mindfuck Movies by Matthew Baldwin. There’s a certain brand of movie that I most enjoy.
Some people call them “Puzzle Movies.” Others call them “Brain Burners.” Each has, at some point or another, been referred to as “that flick I watched while I was baked out of my mind.” But the phrase I find myself employing, when casting around for a succinct term for the entire genre, is “Mindfuck Movies.” It’s an expression I picked up from a college roommate of mine, an enormous Star Trek: The Next Generation fan who adored those episodes when the nature of reality itself was called into question, usually after the holodeck went berserk or Q showed up and hornswoggled everyone into thinking they were intergalactic dung beetles (or whatever…I never really followed the show myself). Mindfuckers aren’t just Dadaism by another name—there has to be some rationale for the mayhem, even if it’s far-fetched (orbiting hallucination-inducing lasers!) Here are 15 16 of my absolute favorites from this rarefied class of motion pictures. Swimsuit Scandals – History’s Most Controversial Swimsuits – ELLE.
When a Muslim woman was banned from a Paris pool for wearing a “burquini” last week—officials called the full-body wetsuit unhygienic—it got us thinking about beachwear brouhahas and swimwear censorship throughout history.
Australian swimmer Annette Kellerman, the first woman to attempt to swim the English Channel, was arrested for indecency in 1907, wearing a formfitting one-piece swimsuit on a Boston beach in 1907. “During this period, people were arrested on lots of different beaches when the local standards of modesty conflicted with the bathing-suit style,” says Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of the Museum at FIT. “In 1907, you’d be pretty covered up on the beach—you’d be wearing long bloomers and a tunic. Of course, it’s hard to swim in those, and Annette Kellerman was a really great swimmer, so no doubt she wore something a lot more formfitting.” Photo: Getty Images. S Curiosities. Mental_floss Blog » The War on Suffrage. “Nine little Suffergets, Finding boys to hate, One kisses Willie Jones, And then there are Eight.”
Ten Little Suffergets tells the sad tale of ten little girls who lose their pro-suffrage leanings when they spy shiny objects like toys, men, and the Sandman. The 1915 picture book ends with the final baby suffragette cracking her baby doll’s head open. “And then there were none!” Ends the book on a gleeful note. The suffrage movement, both in America and England, involved angry debates about the ideals of womanhood, the power and purpose of government, and how much beer everyone should be drinking. Suffrage Isn’t Sexy The suffrage movement was part of the larger debate known as “The Woman Question” in Victorian and Edwardian times, when people were discussing what a real woman looked like. In other words, letting women get a chance at the polls would destroy the society.
This attitude was reflected in the suffragette caricatures drawn in newspapers and magazines. Babes and Booze 1.