Word: fetishization
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...premise, once you accept it, is like a song you can't get out of your head: you start seeing long tails everywhere. Microbrews become the long tail of beers, for example. Blogs are the long tail of journalism. Even porn has its version--the increasingly bizarre porn fetish sites that could be profitable only...
...white men seem particularly commonplace, students say. According to Le’s data, a Chinese, Japanese, or Vietnamese woman is more than twice as likely as her male ethnic counterpart to have a white spouse.Hovering over these relationships is the specter of the “Asian fetish,” Jean Yang ’08 says.By that, Yang refers to a supposed white-male fantasy based on the stereotype that Asian women are exotic, or delicate, or more passive than females of other races.Yang, who is Chinese American, says she would not want to date someone...
...reach into realms that have to do with magic and the objects that presume to have it, with power and the gaudy ways it announces itself, with the degradation of native art into gift-shop kitsch and the elevation of celebrity sports gear into sacred bling. By conflating tribal fetish and consumer trophy, Jungen has managed to tie any number of cultural assumptions and anxieties into a wickedly clever knot...
...Nixon-era politics and a number of nursing and emergency-rescue textbooks.A glass display case shows off the promised coins, but Marshall explains that a friend of his manages the coin collection. Marshall is the book man.But the shop reflects more than its proprietor’s obvious text fetish. On the walls, Marshall proudly exhibits several blueprints next to a signed and sealed patent certificate bearing his name—one of several he holds.In his workshop in the back room, he sits at a table that groans under the weight of old books in various states of disrepair...
...excellent DVD transfer, its illuminating extra features, nor its guileless acting are likely to make “Punishment” enjoyable viewing for those who do not share Watkins’ politics. You might call “Punishment” political pornography: if leftist agitprop is your fetish, then “Punishment” is for you. If your politics fall right of center, you will probably wish Watkins and his crew had never returned from the desert. —Crimson staff writer Bernard L. Parham can be reached ar parham@fas.harvard...