Annotation1: Is it Appropriate to Use Showgirl as a Commercial Strategy?

Recent years, more and more enterprises choose the appearance beautifully sales person in the specific situation. There occurs the all new kind of commercial role who calls “show girl” in commercial exhibition, forms one kind of Taiwan unique industry phenomenon. While many argue that showgirls are selling body image to fulfill buyers’ desires of watching sexy young girls. Furthermore, lots of news and research point out that the role of showgirls alters from simple product narrator to eye-catching sexy babe in 3C mall, which results from the demand of suppliers, consumption habits and social culture. Though the effect of sex appeal has not been proved yet, sexy showgirl activities still prevail, while the showgirls are molded into the stereotype of sexy female image.

According to the news in 2012, the Eurogamer Expo in London proclaimed that they are going to set a veto on the appearance of showgirls in the following years. The organizer stated that the aim of the exposition is to display games with true way instead of attracting buyers through those sex-selling showgirls.

Nonetheless, I think it’s ridiculous to parallel showgirl with sex. The wave of having showgirl in the exposition is mainly because of commercial orientation in that most customers pottering around in the exhibition are males or even indoorsmen. Then of course they will match up the need of those guys, it is a natural commercial activity as well as strategy. Furthermore, the clothing of showgirls is not distinctively cleavage; in fact, those girls in the city wear more daring and cleavage clothes for fashion.

By any possibility, people watch showgirl with unusual vision in that they are females; it is the public vision being objectified rather than females themselves. Those showgirls are not flower vases or sugar babes who are coquettish, they just confide in their figures. More importantly, the content from unrolling beauty is just the added value; the most significant thing is that they are able to experience professional capability on work along with attitude toward work. To sum up, it is merely one kind of commercial tactics; we do not have to impose our self-righteous morality on this phenomenon. 

Sources: http://big5.cntv.cn/gate/big5/games.cntv.cn/2012/news_03_1008/114748.shtml

Issue Paper: If one of the lesbian dress like man, can they still be considered lesbian?

With the development and modernization of the society, homosexuality has been embraced gradually by common people. Nevertheless, to what degree do homosexuals accept themselves? Take lesbian for instance.

There is a common phenomenon that a person of the couple of lesbian would be masculinized, who is called “tomboy.” Her clothing, haircut, the way of speaking and behavior are acted as males.

In all-girl school, this kind of situation often appears. Some girl students dress and act like boy; plus their haircut, most of them just look like some pretty handsome boys. However, are they born to be like this? Most tomboys wear like boys as they enter all-girl school. According to the research, to lesbian’s tomboy, the main reason of being tomboy is that they long to be loved by opposite sex but could not be. On the other hand, the cases of “femme,” who dress and look effeminate among lesbian, the major cause of becoming lesbian is that they were emotionally and deeply traumatized by heterosexual, and thus have no confidence in heterosexual. Furthermore, the reason of

Some may consider that the reason why they dress like man might be that they suffer the pressure by social ethic. So when a lesbian couple shows up in public, one would acts as well as dressed like man in that they will look like normal heterosexual pairs.    

However, lots of cases show that when one falls in love with other lesbian, at the first time, she already appeared with the appearance of male. She just has crush on a male-like girl. As far as I’m concerned, the definition of being lesbian does not exist a women with a man-like woman having relationship. If a woman intents to in love with a woman who dresses like man, she can just go straight to have relationship with a real male.

 It appears that this kind of lesbian is not able to be marked as pure lesbian. Because one of the couple intent to have affection with girls who look like males. So apparently, she is potentially straight.  

Sources:

http://www.shs.edu.tw/works/essay/2007/03/2007033023593436.pdf

http://www.elchk.org.hk/l_news/ln092/092c.htm