Question 7

The video appropriates and satires the early pornographic male. The man in this video is completely ridiculous. All the 70’s signifiers of sexuality for men are present the mustache and the cut offs are the most prevalent. The man lifts weights though briefly in the video too. The video appropriates these signifiers and makes them satirical. Even the man’s name, Hank Rugburn, is a satire on the ridiculous porn star names. The video also appropriates the sexed up kissing movements of early male gaze. It again satirizes these techniques and images into ridiculousness. When the female is throwing seeds to herself and is overly sexualizing the action, the video has appropriated that shot. Also the shots of the woman doing the exercises and making faces at the camera with her hair blowing back are overly sexualized. The video takes it over the top and even shows another girl who does not look pleased, holding the fan that is blowing the woman’s hair.

The video reappropriates a lot of images and techniques as well. The work outs to make women’s boob’s bigger is reappropriated from women with big boobs. A sub culture of small chested women now has power to “fight back.” Also the over the top sexualization of the whole video is a reappropriation. The video is reappropriating the set up of early pornographies. The rampant sexual innuendo, a paradigm example is the radiator “problems.” Also reappropriating gender roles in porn, the woman, after all this trouble, says no to Hank.