Today, as I do most mornings, I woke up and went through my facebook home page.
While doing so, I found that one of my contacts had shared the following three videos:
... what a great way to start my day! Now I feel extremely irritated and offended.
What all three videos have in common is sexism.
The first one, Free sex prank, is actually borderline rape. Women become unaware participants in some sort of porn video. To call that a prank trivializes the serious disregard it shows towards women, their wishes, their integrity and their sexuality.
The second one, Bottom percussion, objectifies women to the extreme and makes violence on them seem right - it's ok to smack women's butts since they sound like music! So basically women aren't seen as whole human beings, but rather as just as an assembly of parts that you can use for your own pleasure and entertainment.
As for the third, Shii the Wii for women, though one might see it as a simple joke, it quite honestly isn't. And if it is, then it's at any rate a sexist, irrespectful joke that should not be allowed and which should most definitely not provoke laughter. It makes stereotypes look like something trivial, it makes women's issues look like jokes and it perpetrueates an extremely discriminating image of women. And in the last part of the video, women are sexualised one again: basically it makes it quite clear that doing sexual services to men is a "woman's task", just like ironing and cooking OF COURSE.
Imagine these same videos featuring people of colour. They would be seen as racist, as insults, as socially unacceptable.
So why are these videos treated as mere funny jokes?
I'm appalled.
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