A conversation between Robert Crumb and an ex-girlfriend from the movie “Crumb”:
“You really hated women then. Do you think it’s improved since?”
“Yeah. I hate them a little bit less now. Guys like me, I like certain kinds of women’s legs. I’m not masochistic.”
“But you don’t like feet! You’re not heavily into feet.”
“I’m not fixated, but I can get into it. I can have an orgasm playing with someone’s foot. It’s not a real narrow fixation.”
“It’s that the way the mind of the person who’s interested in legs and feet… is very different from the mind of the person who’s interested in breasts. Breast men tend to be aggressive, outgoing, athletic. People who like the lower body…”
“She’s got these types categorized.”
“People who like the lower body tend to be frightened, introverted. It all has to do with being down on the floor when you were a scared child… and looking up at that big tower of Mommy. What’s down there? The feet and legs. That’s where the security is. Women go around feeling victimized by men all the time. They feel like the men have the power… and the area where women can take the power from men is through sex. Men have that fetishistic twist to their minds because they have that ability… to concentrate on one thing to the exclusion of all else… and can really be manipulated sexually, where women are not as susceptible.”
“You are so frightening. Jesus! Women are susceptible to power. That’s what I find. Any display of power and, ‘Oh, he’s so interesting!
Who’s that man who’s being so obnoxious and arrogant? He’s so interesting.’’’
From Pablo Picasso by The Modern Lovers
“Well, some people try to pick up girls
and get called an asshole.
This never happened to Pablo Picasso.
He could walk down your street,
and girls could not resist his stare,
and so Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole.”
I happened to listen to this song and see “Crumb” on the same day, and I think Jonathan Richman and Robert Crumb are essentially saying the same thing. What do you think?
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