Critical Balls parade

trailmix2 · Post by **trailmix2** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 11:42 am

Anyone interested in helping to put together a critical balls parade??? not for nothing, but as much as i love the critical tits parade, it would be great to have equal time!

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:27 pm

Is it just me or do others find themselves wondering why it is when a group of women get together to make or do something unique as women that inevitably it seems someone - usually one or more organized group of men - seem compelled to either outdo, detract or overshadow it.

I guess I'm just surprised that this idea didn't happen along any sooner than it did.

Not interested BTW.

gawul · Post by **gawul** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:32 pm

isnt there already a critical dicks parade?

trailmix2 · Post by **trailmix2** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 2:24 pm

badger,
you know, i agree with you and at the same time want to bring up the idea that, aside from our oversized egos, we men generally do not think much of our bodies, and to have them celebrated can be as freeing and empowering as it is for the women to do their thing.

also, the funny thing about nature is that the male is always the fancy one, preening and dancing in front of the woman. How is it that the human race has reversed that?

not meant to take away from the women's parade, just meant to have fun in the same vein.

Chai Guy · Post by **Chai Guy** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 6:13 pm

we men generally do not think much of our bodies, and to have them celebrated can be as freeing and empowering as it is for the women to do their thing.

Yeah dude, that's our problem, we never think about our cocks.

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:53 pm

the funny thing about nature is that the male is always the fancy one, preening and dancing in front of the woman. How is it that the human race has reversed that?

But I'm not so sure that we're addressing the hardwired aspects so much as the sociological and enculturated ones in this thread. Without trying to sound too Alan Alda-ish I'll say that in my experiences of bearing witness to the Critical Tits the idea has always been (or seemed to me) a statement by women for women to do something collectively for each other that might somehow transcend and hopefully negate issues of patriarchal judgement, shame, guilt, and all the other baggage that women have historically been subjected to to or expected to endure by a the primacy that men have pretty much historically claimed over the millenia.

To have the opportunity - no matter how fleeting - to get on their bikes and celebrate each other in their nakedness, in their fatness, in their plain and normalness, in their womaness and yes, in their beautiful fucking fubulousness and say "It ain't about YOU dudes. It's about US. It's about me and my sisters and our daughters and our mothers and all the shit that's STILL collectively hanging around our necks as we continue living in a society that remains overwhelmingly patriarchlal is, I believe (pause for this long sentence) the essence of what Critical Tits is about.

Unfortunately this message seems to get diminished every year by yahoos, and pic snapping fratboys and detractors of every stripe that will not, do not or cannot see the significance of the message that I believe the women on the whole are trying to impart to the rest of us (mostly men folk) looking on. So, my objection with the suggestion that 'us guys' have a Critical Cocks/Balls parade seems to serve no purpose other than to piss testerone on their parade.

And that saddens me.

Mind you, I'm just fessing up to what I think my interpretation of such a suggestion represents.

Bitterman · Post by **Bitterman** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 1:23 am

NO one! And I mean NO one! Wants to see yer swingin' red hairy yam bag. That's why god invented Pantzooka! Watch out!

tola · Post by **tola** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 4:00 am

Badger! How articulate you are, even so early in the morning. I've never ridden in the critical tits parade, but your epistle has enthused me, and I may bare my breasts this year for exactly the reasons you outline; which will take balls, so at least there will be one pair out there, guys.

dragonfly Jafe · Post by **dragonfly Jafe** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 5:25 am

Kind of misses the point of the original CT inspiration, but putting that aside, how are you going to show off your balls while riding a bike?

xevioso · Post by **xevioso** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 9:28 pm

You know, while we men build homages to our cocks, we also devote just as much time to building homages to body parts belonging to women. It's WOMEN who notice that buildings are phallic shaped, not men. But they forget we also build things that bring to mind the female anatomy:

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 9:45 pm

It's WOMEN who notice that buildings are phallic shaped, not men.

YOU didn't know my last boyfriend.

dragonfly Jafe · Post by **dragonfly Jafe** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 11:00 pm

And let us not forget perhaps one of the best examples of Female architecure, the entrance of "Le Notre Dame" (I don't know how to post pictures or I would...) - a useable primer on female anatomy...