Did we mention we were feminists?
The girlfriend and I went to the Burlesque Hour at the Spiegeltent as part of the wonderful Adelaide Fringe Festival. As great as it was, it was an hour and a half of obvious feminist themes. The genderbending (women are just as good as men), the 'dolls' behaving manically (yeah, we know, women aren't just dolls, they are more than that), the japanese girl who turns into a demonic hello kitty (something about the weird obsession with young japanese women, or something), the Victorian woman who changes an expression of grief into one of sexual relief, which took waaay too long (ok we get it, you're sexually repressed). In case you missed all this, late in the second half a woman does a monologue about vaginas (only she didn't use that word...). Oh yes, and there are a lot of boobs in this (this is not the first thing the girlfriend has taken me to something where the performers get their kit off....hmmm..), but they are kind of aggressively shown, as in "here are my boobs, what are you going to do about it??".
Oh yeah, did I mention the feminist themes??
Still it wasn't too bad, and some bits were funny. But my vote still goes for La Clique. If only because this boy in the bath :

is soo sexy I was left questioning my sexuality (if only for 3 seconds...).

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