“She glowered as if ready to take on anything the Venezuelans could deliver, her black ‘underwear’ more like armour, a costume from Star Wars, accentuating the mostly naked breasts and thighs with some chain links begging to be undone. This is warfare in another key, and all the more delightful for not requiring tanks and guns. ‘Don’t fuck with us’ is what I read as the implied caption; bearing in mind Freud’s play with primal words, this means both ‘Please fuck me’ and ‘I will fuck you,’ meaning destroy you.”
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Michael Taussig (writing in his, um, signature style), from Beauty and the Beast, on a 2009 photograph from Columbia’s El Tiempo, which captured a young woman displaying designer underwear at a fashion show in Medellin
