Gross, Anatomy: Lip Syncing...Kiss Off! 

Required, reading (before viewing) "the organs, parts, and structures of a body that are visible to the naked eye..." Much of which, for many unprepared can easily gross one out. Especially if we haven't been exposed to those particular, hyper-sensitive parts. You know, the ones that have been covered up in good taste, at least the last few years...a few of which (upper and lower) are part of what "Anatomy" (a feared course for many med students) refers to as the "gustatory" system...at least the entree. So-called "private parts". As in lips, the outer part of one's mouth. You know, the area we, most of us at one time or another, the past few years, masked over...An area under (literally) investigation by both aspiring medical students or those of us who, as part of our "graduate-professional" training as aspiring psychologists, became a focus of study of "body language" - a HUGE body of work in and of itself. In either case, always done with a degree of decorum...(saving the jokes about body parts for after class)...

In good taste, taste-fully: Speaking of class, taste-less -- lip smacking good! Or bad, as it turns out. Resulting in millions of raised eyebrows -- you know, the other part of the body that we relied on the past few years, along with some well-timed grimaces and for those with the 'gift' -- wiggling of one's ears...collectively to show dis-approval...That's right, while "pursing" one's lips was temporarily "out of order" to show another might actually be...we weren't entirely without body language at our disposal, not as helpless as the World Cup Soccer participant in question, one on the winning Spanish team, one that was apparently singled out by the one and only president of the Spanish soccer federation, for so-called special treatment which, while commonplace in some locales, was most unwelcome, given without explicit permission or even the option of turning a cheek which, no matter how many times and angles you replay it, was probably at least a call for a yellow card...let alone a call for his resignation. The fact that he had been spotted in polite company grabbing parts unknown, just shortly prior, may have provided only foreplay -- I meant foreshadowing. of the moment to come...talk about viewer discretion being advisable...

Breaking with tradition: Can you imagine the following (ob)scene, one that we around these parts have become accosted, I mean accustomed to...after an established, long-held tradition of mothers holding out babies to a president for a kiss ("on the forehead, please") we have been witness to one going around such tradition (literally, depending on what angle you replay it) and sniffing hair. Talk about creepy; gross me right out! "Cringe worthy" is what I think the current, updated gross anatomy term that applies here. So, can you imagine what others with good taste in the land of Spain, let alone the body of FIFA would be crying out, if instead of taking the advantage of the moment of surprise and putting a smooch ("the cultural contexts of which vary widely") on the lips, the party in question, one Luis Rubiales, had instead given her (sweaty, I presume) hair a big wiff...Kiss off indeed!

Talking about body language now and then...here, there...a psychologist's field day.


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