Sexual liberation and spiritual healing... for women

I know Magic Mike XXL is a bit of a disappointment in terms of plot and dialogue in general -- but there is a theme throughout that seems to be missed... and it suggested by their emphasis on being male entertainers.

Maybe it's because I'm from another generation (a bit older than Andie MacDowell) that this theme meant something to me.

Below is a rather frank discussion about sexuality but only in a very general way.

This is a serious post -- and I hope any moderator who is concerned regarding its content will read it through to see that it makes a social point.

Women's sexual subjugation was at the heart of middle-class society. This is what I was faced with as a child. A woman had ot use her sexuality to land a husband and keep him. Earning a living above gentile poverty or entering a profession was nigh on to impossible. Any woman who did manage to was always talked aobut behind her back as "she couldn't get a man" because the very rare woman at a job paying more than gentile poverty was almost never married and became an "old maid" by the time she was 30.

As women's lib made its slow progress over the last 50 years, one aspect that has not received too much attention is a woman's sexuality. Oh yes, we know about orgasims and so forth now. But very little is portrayed in the main stream about what a women's sexaulity is really like, waht gives her full, unabashed arousal and pleasure.

Decades and decades of film and society in general spent a huge amoount of time on what arouses men to their fullest - big breasts, skinny waists, various sizes of butt -- movments, seductive, sensual or otherwise.

But no true full attention has been paid to this for a woman. The Magic Mike films do -- particularly in XXL, so much of the dance and approach to the women is designed to suggest the possibility of full arousal and total abandonment to those feeelings of pleasure.

We women are still in the healing stage of that as suggested by the Andie MacDowell character. And it is the whole theme behind the "club" the Jada Pinkett character, the male stripper contest perfprmance --- and the discussion among the 5 male characters.

The five male characters are struggling with abandoning the "tradtional" roles of what is supposed to make women "hot" -- i.e., pretending to be firemen, policemen. THose roles were designed on the basis that a woman's sexual attraction and interaction had to be an ancillary to some other purpose, to fight fires, rescue from burglers, construction men -- etc.

But the point -- I beleive -- behind the Channing Tatum character saying to chuck those role-playing charactyers and acknowledge what they are -- male entertainers is a statement that women have full erotic and exotic sensuality. And that womenought to be stimulated ot the max in whhc they let go of all worldly awareness without any fear of reprisak or being labeled as a sl*t or a wh*re.

These male entertainers are providing healing for the women they dance for - guiding them to feeling maximun abandonment to their sensual feelings without concern for any social restraint.

I, frankly, really enjoyed that whole message. It felt very affirming of myself. The fact that it seems to have been largely missed seems to speak volumes to its point.

Edit: I forgot to mention -- I noticed how a number of people complained that there were fat women who were the center of attention of some of the dances... That's what makes it real.... This is acknowledging all women ... their sexual healing and desires -- they all have them. I mean, after all, when this is applied to men -- a simialr situation of a strip club with women strippers -- all kinds of shapes and sizes of men are getting titillated -- and we don;t think anything of that -- well at leas the men don't because the sexuality is appealing to men and men of all shapes andd sizes have sexuality,,, in real life *and* in film --- no one ever objects to that.
Shows how skewed the view is of women's sexuality -- the people here who object to the fat women abd want only beautiful sexy women to be recipeients of the male entertainer's attention -- or, probably without realizing it -- once again denying women their sexuality. It is in fact a statement that only women who are appealing to a man's eye have the right to have sexaul pleasure or at least to have it portrayed.

It is against this male-dominated view, that this movie is countering -- it is not surprising that Channing Tatum took part in writing this script. As a male entertainer, in his younger years -- he fully understands and appreciates the importance of finally liberating women's sexuality fully and completely -- and with abandonment to social mores.