More than a banana covered hat and an expert dancer. Carmen Miranda was the picture of the prosperity available in this country to whomever would be diligent and resourceful. She used her influence and gifts to change the stereotype that was assigned to her. A sexy woman, whose beauty engaged and enthralled and used that reality to show women how to direct the minds of lust to the task at hand. ie. In the movie A Date with Judy they gave her the part of a dance instructor and she was able to teach this man to Rhumba and keep his mind on the learning of that skill and not get distracted by the beauty of what he was touching in the lesson. It was amusing and instructional.
The lesson I seemed to see in that was that it is not in our power to make men not lust, but it is in our power to, with the power entrusted to us in their lust to get the job done. Whatever that job may be. We may not have the job of a Rhumba teacher, but in whatever we do, let us keep our minds on the task at hand. That is not always easy.
Do we get high on admiration of our skills or beauty and lose our focus or do we direct the day for good. She was a revolutionary. Let us be also....
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