{"id":74,"date":"2003-07-24T15:33:11","date_gmt":"2003-07-24T19:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/2003\/07\/24\/down-on-your-dandy-knees\/"},"modified":"2003-07-24T15:33:11","modified_gmt":"2003-07-24T19:33:11","slug":"down-on-your-dandy-knees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/2003\/07\/24\/down-on-your-dandy-knees\/","title":{"rendered":"Down on your dandy knees?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a21'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve heard sly speculation that boys playing the part of Lara amounts to digital cross-dressing, and that this was a reason for its success. I wish it were that interesting, and certainly it could be subverted in this way, but I suspect that it has far more to do with the way that the player controls Lara. There&#8217;s a critical distinction to be made between a first-person perspective (i.e. where only the gun\/knife\/fragger is visible) and a third-person perspective like Tomb Raider &#8212; the latter allows something academics call the Male Gaze. <\/p>\n<p>\nPowerful women are used all the time to sell us stuff. I&#8217;ve been noticing the dominatrix image used a lot, and it&#8217;s not being used soley to appeal to those with a submissive streak; it&#8217;s because the leather-clad, conventionally sexy woman has a broad cross-gender appeal. Her power makes her appealing to women; her kinkiness makes her appealing to men who figure her dominance is a pose.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nSobre Lara y <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eye.net\/eye\/issue\/issue_07.17.03\/city\/pleasurecircuit.html\" target=\"_blank\">otras hero<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard sly speculation that boys playing the part of Lara amounts to digital cross-dressing, and that this was a reason for its success. I wish it were that interesting, and certainly it could be subverted in this way, but I suspect that it has far more to do with the way that the player [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1458],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ionstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}