WOW.
Does anyone else find this highly, even horrifyingly, disturbing?
http://www.cartier.com/en/Creation,B6016216
Now, if you read the description and follow the little links on the left, you are forced to encounter a kind of really distressingly misled Story-of-O-esque somehow socially legitimate form of visible bondage.
Now I'm not saying that I'm against bondage in the fun sense, but I get the feeling that there are a lot of people out there who have no idea the valences of meaning that are attached to the idea of SCREWING A BRACELET ONTO YOUR LOVED ONE'S WRIST FOREVER LIKE A HANDCUFF. And these people wander the planet totally oblivious to the horrifying multiple (and not so nice) meanings that they are attaching to their relationship.
Since 1970. Which is a whole secondary backlash against free love.
And, not without a little cringe did I find that this same motif is also available in ring sizes - wedding ring sizes.
Now, some of you may be thinking (hell, it's just a bracelet). And that may be true. But let's just think about the material a moment.
Gold, right? Ok.
Silver? Still ok.
What if it were stainless steel? Fine.
Steel? Er...
Iron? An Iron bracelet with a key that someone else has and you can't take it off without their help?
Yikes.
http://www.cartier.com/en/Creation,B6016216
Now, if you read the description and follow the little links on the left, you are forced to encounter a kind of really distressingly misled Story-of-O-esque somehow socially legitimate form of visible bondage.
Now I'm not saying that I'm against bondage in the fun sense, but I get the feeling that there are a lot of people out there who have no idea the valences of meaning that are attached to the idea of SCREWING A BRACELET ONTO YOUR LOVED ONE'S WRIST FOREVER LIKE A HANDCUFF. And these people wander the planet totally oblivious to the horrifying multiple (and not so nice) meanings that they are attaching to their relationship.
Since 1970. Which is a whole secondary backlash against free love.
And, not without a little cringe did I find that this same motif is also available in ring sizes - wedding ring sizes.
Now, some of you may be thinking (hell, it's just a bracelet). And that may be true. But let's just think about the material a moment.
Gold, right? Ok.
Silver? Still ok.
What if it were stainless steel? Fine.
Steel? Er...
Iron? An Iron bracelet with a key that someone else has and you can't take it off without their help?
Yikes.
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What's even scarier? That I know several people very well who would think that this is fabulous precisely because of all of those connotations. Because they're in 24/7 power exchange relationships. Consentually, clearly. That's the key here (even Cartier knows this much): mutual consent. Sigh.
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Al, at 7:59 PM
Yeah, but they know what's going on. I'm thinking of people not living that lifestyle and totally oblivious to the multiple valences of meaning here.
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katie, at 9:24 PM
Ah. Yes. Those. They scare me, too.
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Al, at 9:17 AM
Terrifying.
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J, at 9:58 PM
yes, definitely creepy. i can just see myself in a closet five minutes later blowtorching off my arm. and what happens when you try to get through airport security with that thing on?
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Anonymous, at 5:09 PM
Even more terrifying, I fear, would be the price for such degradation.
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Anonymous, at 11:50 AM
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