First, an update to an earlier fic & vids post because a link broke:  …on the dance floor, by Sloane.  (This is the “Too Many Dicks on the Dancefloor” / “Star Trek” fanvid i keep talking about.)  I still <3 this vid so much.

Fic!  “Apocalypse How?” A Dinosaur Comics fic.  Yes, really.  And it’s good!  Even Andy liked it.

And finally.  Um, okay, this isn’t really a fanvid, but i found it thinky in the same way vids make me thinky because i think it’s transforming, and thus questioning, culture in the same way. This is “He Wolf,” by Andrew Foster, a sophomore at the University of Washington.  Why’d he parody Shakira’s “She Wolf”?

Foster admits he’s not a big Shakira fan. But when he and his friends saw her newest video, they couldn’t stop watching it — or imitating the sexy, oddball dance moves he called “over the top.”

In the 1st place, i wind up liking the parody way better because it’s being ridiculous on purpose instead of merely being ridiculous by accident — is Shakira supposed to be dancing sexfully, or is she twisting around because she’s supposed to be undergoing a transformation into a werewolf, or both?   But in the 2nd place, the parody is interesting because, to quote again from that september 22nd (2009) Seattlepi.com article:

[T]his morning the YouTube community flagged it as inappropriate for audiences under 18, which surprised its creator: If Shakira can do it, why can’t he?

Why, indeed, does a video where a man is gyrating around get flagged as inappropriate for audiences under 18 when the original video of a woman gyrating in exactly the same way does not get flagged?

And while i’m asking questions with no satisfactory answers:  Why does the scene in the original “She Wolf” video where a wolf prowling across the floor becomes a woman prowling across the floor feature a black woman when there are no other obvous women of color in the video anywhere?