I know I’m probably going to get flamed to all holy hell for this because it seems like most of the internet worships at the naked feet of Bettie Page, but I don’t find her sexy at all.
Case in point: out of the five pictures above, the only one I find even passable is the one where her back is turned. In the rest of them she’s making such, uh, “aggressive” faces it makes her look like she has downs syndrome.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for the non-conformity/liberation/anti-repressive trail she blazed in the 50’s, and I’d never discredit her for that, but I think we all need to stop pretending she’s some beautiful sex kitten. Just because she did more (and frequently more hardcore) erotica than most others at the time doesn’t mean she’s automatically hot—it’s the classic quantity versus quality argument.
For what it’s worth, I feel the same way when people tell me how hot Sasha Grey is. Just because she has done 230+ adult films (and is super hardcore nasty in almost all of them) doesn’t mean she’s automatically hot. By that logic, everyone on Tumblr should be praising the 2-Girls-1-Cup ladies because they’re doing really avant-garde work not even Sasha Grey would do.
Go ahead and flame me all you want, but look though any Playboy in the 50’s and you’ll find hundreds of better looking girls than Bettie Page. She wasn’t that special and we should stop pretending she was.
