1953: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

GENTLEMEN PREFER...
Are you sure it's just Blondes?

Could it be gentlemen prefer BIG BUTTS jutting into their face?

Looks like there's going to be a double full moon tonight...


Mr. Milquetoast enters the lair of feminine power, the dressing room...
 

.Offering his wealth to the enchanting Lorelei Lee..
How does she get him to give her such expensive baubles?

Oh, that's how...

He's in a daze of limerance...
While she admires her diamond...


"Honey, do you use Novocain in your lipstick?"


Lorelei's going away, so she wants to make sure he doesn't forget her...

How could he possibly forget?


When Marilyn and Jane enter a room...

Men just fall apart...

The girls are getting ready to go to work on a guy by slipping him a Mickey...

Enticing him to poison...


The drink hits...
Before he can figure out what's hit him,
the girls are taking his clothes off...

"Now you just be a good boy and relax..."
"Now we have to get his pants..."

He's so doped up, he's powerless to resist...

Symbolically, this is akin to 2 Glamazon Mommy-doms changing a baby's diaper... (what?)

The baby boy is helpless, immobile, thoroughly under the control of the overpowering women... (Oh...)

And once they remove his pants, they have robbed him of his masculine power,
establishing Female Supremacy...

 (Wait a minute, isn't this supposed to be just a Musical Comedy?)


So let's review...

What do Gentlemen prefer?

  1. Blondes

  2. Stunning WOmen in Sexy costumes

  3. Big butts in their face

  4. Big boobs in their face

  5. Being kissed by beautiful women who make them forget who they are or why they exist

  6. Getting so drunk they can't stand and WOmen can just yank their pants off

  7. and... what else?
     

Oh, and gentlemen also prefer Big Beautiful Women sitting on their laps...

Can't say guys don't know what they like...

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes provides a blueprint for post-WWII media-erotica... The combination of two utterly unfathomable Sex Glamazons as Marilyn Monroe & Jane Russell  produced a thunderous explosion of fetishistic depictions never seen before and ignited much of what was to follow in the 50s & 60s... Costume erotica became legitimized, paving the way for clothes-fetishists, cross-dressers and transvestites, with breast-fixation and butt-ogling elevated to an art-form..

 MM's Lorelei Lee is a quintessential depiction of the GoldDigger-Seductress-Siren archetypes.   She is utterly irresistible, but her ultimate interest in men is only what she can get from them -- their worship and wealth.


One may think of the musical as a simple song & dance show with a flimsy story, but in the 1950s the musical was the symbolic stage where popular media explored fetishistic obsessions... Tag-teamed with MM, Jane Russell's mannish Dorothy Shaw, offers a lesbian good cop / bad cop dynamic, emanating two powerful female energies -- one is super feminine (with a calculating mind), the other is masculine-feminine (with a big heart... and butt) GPB even provides homo-erotica with DomMommy Jane dancing with a bunch of muscle boys... This movie doesn't miss a trick...

 

There's even a glimpse of future S&M fashions in one of the musical numbers...