Marine marching chant: Eskimo pussies
example · film: An Officer and a Gentleman ·
retold in 3 talks
US military marching chants combine open obscenities with nonsense rhymes (e.g. from An Officer and a Gentleman); Žižek uses them to show that the real identification within a closed community is formed through its transgressive rituals, not its explicit rules.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 3
“I don't know but I've been told that Eskimo pussy is rather cold.”
“I don't know but I was told that Eskimo pussies are rather cold”
“I don't know but I was told that Eskimo pussies are rather cold.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
Its cast and sources
populated by
Saint Theresa of Avila Church, New Orleans1Elvis Presley1Salah Abdeslam1Karsten Nordal Hauken1Élisabeth Roudinesco1Samuel Weber1Alan Johnson1Vladimir Zhirinovsky1
alongside works
Every retelling 3
US military marching chants combine open obscenities with nonsense rhymes (e.g. from An Officer and a Gentleman); Žižek uses them to show that the real identification within a closed community is formed through its transgressive rituals, not its explicit rules., illustrating obscene underside,two-level rules
US Marines sing obscene nonsense rhymes while marching ('I don't know but I was told that Eskimo pussies are rather cold'); Žižek uses this to show that military discipline requires an obscene supplement of limericks and sexual nonsense to hold the collective together., illustrating obscene supplement,military homoeroticism,drive
US Marine marching chants, limerick nonsense mixed with sexual obscenity ('I don't know but I was told that Eskimo pussies are rather cold'), illustrate how the most disciplined institution needs a pharmakon of transgressive enjoyment to sustain its order., illustrating pharmakon,supplément,sexual difference and discipline