Thursday, October 28, 2010

Pop Culture gone Wild

I know that this article is a bit dated with reading but I just enjoy what Valenti has to say most of the time. It goes into some of the media aspect of conflict we have been discussing. Lets face it Media helps reconstruct the ideas we have about men and women. They are the ones that encourage the so called "box". On side I hate the box I am tired of hearing about the box. No one fits into the box so I thing it is unimportant and should just be thrown out. The only thing about humans and other animals is that no two are the same. We are different weather it be looks, personality, or biological make up. Everybody has some different compared to the next person. That my little ramble about it.

Anyways on to the article.
Lets face the fact sex is no incorporated into every life. Weather it be through conversations, tv, or music. It is some how going to come up. It is no longer something that is frowned upon as before. While there are still negative connotation around sex it have involved since the early twentieth century.
She focuses a lot of Girls Gone Wild. First off I have them credit for running a solid empire that has branched out past videos. In some respect Playboy and GGW are both well runned and managed business.
I don't support any of what they sell or promote. They are making money by objectify women. This is why I think playboy is a little bit more legitimate then GGW. The girls audience to be in the magazine. GGW finds drunk girls on spring breaks and takes advantage of them one could argue.
Some are argue that act of flash your boobs to people are good things. This is a new generation of feminist arriving. It saying that stripping or working at Hoosier is empowering for women. We have a choice to participate. Maybe they do choice to partake in these careers or activities because the money good. At the same time men don't careers like this they don't have to take off their clothes to the same magnitude that women have to. I just think that when women premote things like this they are continuing women stereotypes.

We are not moving forwards for equality with Playgirl, GGW, and Hoosier. If anything we are taking steps back.

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