Naming and deconstructing a problem on the societal level is not “shaming”. It isn’t about your personal ’empowerment’ or any of the other neo-liberal drek that passes for so much of mainstream feminism these days. So the example here is prostitution and no – I won’t call it ‘sex work’ or any other patriarchally approved euphemism for the female sex slave trade.
Prostitution is female slavery and is only around because men are unwilling to make the effort to regard women in our society as full human beings. Cheery stuff, I know, but fixing the problem doesn’t happen until we recognize that there is a problem and begin to take steps to rectify it.
We try to replicate what we see in our society and media. We as a society need to stop portraying women in media as mere eye candy for the male-gaze. Of course, if you happen to be Legolas, the rules do not apply. :)
“Men speak humorously, or so they say, of ‘the war between the sexes’—a transparent and guileful attempt to mislead us into thinking that there is a natural enmity between men and women, and that the ‘sides’ are evenly matched. Nothing could be further from the truth on both counts. The ‘war between the sexes’ is man made, and it is not between anybody. It is against women.”
-Sonia Johnson, Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation (1987), p. 257
Nice to see a man, even if just in the movies, defer to competence.
I’m glad youtube exists for videos like this one. It allows me to make more reasonable calls to my plumber because stuff like “pipe make bad noise” just seems silly. :)
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