Why Do American Women like Degrading Themselves (and the Stand-up Men Who Allow It)?
And the saddest part of it all is that women are not only using this raunchiness factor to their advantage but they're buying into the fact that it is a good thing. Girls Gone Wild. I could stop there but I won't. These videos are devices that say "Girls are stupid and will take their clothes off for you." Someone once told me that they weren't going to apologize for every stupid man that degraded women just because he was a man. He was a good man and it sucks that he has to be lumped in with all those others who aren't. Well I'm here to tell you it sucks for me too to be lumped in with those girls. It gives men the go ahead to be more misogynistic and assholy to all of us. And for that, I apologize for my gender. I apologize that there are dumbass girls out there who will take off their clothes for no reason, not thinking of their parents who raised them better than that, not thinking of the degradation it causes for all women, not thinking of the fact that it helps men to see that can possibly get away with things like that and take advantage of other poor girls who are silly enough to engage them.
There is now surfacing new tapes of Guys Gone Wild for the ladies. It makes me almost more ashamed to see that. Equal opportunity I guess. All hail the constitution.
Freedom of speech is a great thing, but also a dangerous thing when it comes to developing the minds of young children. Brittany is free to sing her songs and have her kids but when there are little girls to whom she is the role model, it pains me. It pains me to see little girls dressing like her. It pains me to hear little girls saying "that's hot" as if their mothers haven't told them that Paris Hilton is not one to be modeling yourself after. With Madonna it was different, it was almost a political sexual revolution. But with these girls, it's pure disgusting sex.
Maybe for some of you heterosexual men out there, this seems just fine and dandy to you. But for the upstanding guys out there, it should be shameful to have your women, the ones you are attracted to to act and dress in a manner which is beneath them as human beings. Fantasy is fun but reality is going to your mom's house and introducing your fiancé of the first time. And if your fiancé is dressing like Brittany Spears and has no formal education, I would hope that your Mom would disapprove. I mean would you really want Brittany to raise your kids guys? For that matter, do you really want Brittany to be raising your children Moms and dads of the world?
Because that's what she's doing when you let them watch her crap on TV. Now I'm sure Brittany is a nice girl, people like her and I don't blame them for that. This isn't even really about her. Right now, she needs help and I hope she gets it. People care about her. But her image is the thing that bothers me the most. Why do we need to have this tantalizing sexpot up on stage singing to 13 year old girls and 30 year old men. That just sees wrong for me for those 2 age groups to be idolizing this woman. Especially when her image far precedes her talent.
The other sad part is that those people who are always complaining about sex and violence in the media are the reason that there is so much sex and violence in the media. Not because we like it THAT much but because, we're brought up to believe that sex is bad for you. And once you know something's bad for you, you want it even more. It's human nature. And once the media knows what people want, they give it to us to get us to watch their shows and news programs.
We've got to learn like most other countries that sex is not a bad thing. It's something that everyone does, most everyone, so that we can procreate. It's a part o life. Children start asking around 5 or 6 where babies come from and later they ask about sex. It's ok to tell them about the human body and how it works. It's ok to tell them about love. Because if they don't know, they'll find out from Brittany and Flava Flav. And then it'll be too late.
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Post a CommentI don't think women "taking sex back" works in the same way as black people taking the "n" word back. In fact, it doesn't. In my humble opinion, black people took the word back from oppressors to give the oppressors no hope of ruling over them again. That's one side of it anyway. Women have taken sexual aggression and degradation to a different level. When black people finally gained civil right and began living for themselves, they began to take the word and use it for connection in their own communities. But it wasn't used as a word for further degradation or to make money. Women have taken sexual liberation and women's freedom to new lows by showing their bodies as if they mean nothing and are not part of a soul and brain that works. Those who use their bodies for sex and care nothing of showing and giving sex to multiple strangers as if it's a wild and "fun" thing to do shame the women who fought for female liberty. Using the "n" word is still debated in the black communit
The main reason women do these 'girls gone wild' things, as you said, or become porn stars, the ones that mindblast themselves into how that is making them not objects instead of people, is the kind of 'own the word' thing that african americans have done with the n word. It seems strange to other people, to them they feel empowered, they can say they choose to do it, say it, or be it, and it is a self fufilling prophecy.
There are less sex crimes in other countries A. because if it isn't illegal it isn't counted as a crime and B. There are whole giant swaths of eastern Europe, Southeastern Asia, and most areas of Africa just to name a few where the policing of such things is next to non-existant, never mind the middle-east. What you consider a sex crime here whole billions of people ignore, so don't go saying there are more sex crimes in America A. than in ANY other country or B. Per capita than any other country. Other than that, article makes sense. Really, I don't recall a recent story of hundreds of thousands of women being raped to death by pillaging armies around here recently, like in Africa, for example. There are a lot less drug crimes, for instance, if it is legal.
Only now, in this country however, women have begun to do it to themselves. If I can comment on my article myself I would also say that I left out the fact that some women have turned freedom of speech and empowerment into a sideshow. Now that we can do anything without fear of being repressed, we do. Anything. And with the hope of fame, which seems to have taken the place of the hope of freedom in America, we do it on television. Sad.
Somehow people have come to believe, especially young people (and I am young btw), that extremely open sexually degrading women are empowered and don;t have to answer to anyone. Unfortunately there's this little thing called "integrity" and it happens sometimes in a place called "society" that keeps us grounded and holds us up to a standard. But people are scared to tell people that they are wrong today for fear of being persecuted themselves so they leave it alone.
But I digress very much. I disagree that the media is the "cause" or that if it was gone, so would be the degradation of women. Afghanistani women don' watch as much television as we do nor do they have the extremes of media as we do but they, in my humble opinion, have been looked down upon and kept in degradation far worse and for far longer than American women. It happens not only in other countries with little to no media frenzies but has been happening for years. Only now, in this country however, women have
i'll have to disagree slightly with that. I do believe that the entertainment industry contributes to the degradation of women but what is it that that the media literally does? They take from life and put it on screen essentially to entertain us. They show us the degradation of women to sell products, for comic relief (i.e. stand up comedy or shows like Married With Children), or because it happens in real life (i.e. Law and Order). In one breath the media tells us that degradation is bad and in the next breath there's a commercial with a girl in a bikini on top of a car. I don't believe that it would exist, however, without a demand for it. Or rather without complacency. People would have come out in droves to protest a figure like Paris Hilton on the Andy Griffith show 50 years ago but they're so used to it now, they simply turn the channel and refuse to think about it or make fun of her behind her back without commenting on the nastiness of her popularity.
Somehow peop
I think that it is mostly because of the media, if there were no televisions, theatres or magazines in the world, i think it would be a much more clean and dignifyed world..
Hmm...some people really dont know what being an actual "femenists" is all about. They do not send mix messages. I'm an extreme femenist and I belong to a group of extreme femenist as well. We dont encourage ppl to go out and act like "sluts" being a feminist is basically fighting for equal rights. Some girls intend to just be stupid and not interpret things in a proper way. They obtain those rights that they want so bad but hat do they do when they actually have them? Eventually take advantage of them and take it to 'effin far!
We have the extreme feminists to thank for this. They send a mixed message - dress like a stripper but don't you look at me. I can dress like a sex object - but don't you dare treat me like one. The double standards are way out of control in this society.