Sorry, I saw this on Buzzfeed and it wouldn't get out of my head. After all these years of trying to get equality, of trying to achieve good role models, and trying to raise women above subjugation, I see this and have to ask how...why...what happened? I have so many thoughts and feelings about this, I'm finding it hard to write them down coherently. So bear with me, please.
Notice the "relish it" in the lower right hand corner. Sickening, Yeah I'm sure women would love to be brutalized and sexually manhandled.
Allowing this man to to kick or shove her shows women they should tolerate abuse. Is this the lesson we want our children to learn?
This Dolce & Gabbana ad, suggestive of a gang rape, is tame compared to the October 2010 Calvin Klein (below) that was banned in Australia.
It can be debated whether or not this type of advertising promotes violence towards women, but I feel it desensitizes society to these situations making it easier for them to happen and making it harder to report such actions. Through these ads, the victimization of women becomes normal to both men and women. The shock at such actions become dull. It becomes accepted that men can do it and women have to take it.
It shouldn't be that way. It just shouldn't be.
Note: What we, men and women alike, should do if we ever see any kind of ad that victimizes women, go to that manufacturer's site and really bitch. Tell them you'll never buy anything of theirs until they get their act together and that you'll tell anyone and everyone about their disgraceful ads.
How can these manufacturers think violence towards women would attract them to buy their products? How is this glamorous? They have the nerve to trash women then ask for their money. Let's face it, they wouldn't dare put anyone of color or religion in the same situation because it isn't right and there would be such an uproar from around the world it would shake their walls down but yet it's okay to show a female in a degrading way.
Oh, by the way, that Johnny Farah bag she has over her head costs $545.00. He demoralizes women then expects them to pay an exorbitant amount for his damn handbag.
Notice the "relish it" in the lower right hand corner. Sickening, Yeah I'm sure women would love to be brutalized and sexually manhandled.
Allowing this man to to kick or shove her shows women they should tolerate abuse. Is this the lesson we want our children to learn?
This Dolce & Gabbana ad, suggestive of a gang rape, is tame compared to the October 2010 Calvin Klein (below) that was banned in Australia.
It can be debated whether or not this type of advertising promotes violence towards women, but I feel it desensitizes society to these situations making it easier for them to happen and making it harder to report such actions. Through these ads, the victimization of women becomes normal to both men and women. The shock at such actions become dull. It becomes accepted that men can do it and women have to take it.
It shouldn't be that way. It just shouldn't be.
Note: What we, men and women alike, should do if we ever see any kind of ad that victimizes women, go to that manufacturer's site and really bitch. Tell them you'll never buy anything of theirs until they get their act together and that you'll tell anyone and everyone about their disgraceful ads.
