you know that these young women are being ""USED"" to sell thier products..just becuse they're INNOCENT and vulnerable(never done it before a camera)..women are being treated as OBJECTS 
Censorship And Portrayal Of Women
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dmegametal#1
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Re: Censorship And Portrayal Of Women
now everywhere you look..younger girls(18-19yrs) are appearing in magazines and on screen with older bigger guys..now when you see that.. you know that these young women are being ""USED"" to sell thier products..just becuse they're INNOCENT and vulnerable(never done it before a camera)..women are being treated as OBJECTS
you know that these young women are being ""USED"" to sell thier products..just becuse they're INNOCENT and vulnerable(never done it before a camera)..women are being treated as OBJECTS -
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Re: Censorship And Portrayal Of Women
I should add, because I'm not that I've said it in this thread, that I am not for censorship or banning of pornography. The NRA argument fits this situation to a T: if you outlaw pornography, only outlaws will have pornography. And given the current situation, that'd make for a whole lot of outlaws. Rather, there needs to be a large-scale initiative to educate young men and women about the harmful effects of pornography and instill a systemic change in attitudes so that the demand for porn and other negative portrayals of women decreases, thereby creating a natural decrease in supply.
Right now, there are over 11,000 new pornographic titles being put out every year. Why? Because the demand for porn is at an all-time high (so it seems), as the porn industry's revenues in the United States ($11 billion) is higher than that of the mainstream movie industry. With this comes more mainstreaming of porn, as Hollywood tries to get in on some of that financial pie (no pun intended, putting out movies that cater exclusively to 18-24 year-old males featuring excessive and gratuitous amounts of female nudity and women in clearly subordinate, lesser roles.
Just as only men can stop rape, so too are men the only ones that can ultimately stop the mass production of pornography and the objectification and degradation of women.
I should add also, as a final note to my discussion with Mark, that Metallica's decision to blur out the actress's breasts during the rape scene in the Turn the Page video does not qualify as censorship. Censorship is something that is done by the government. Metallica is a private enterprise; blurring out breasts in their music videos is no more censorship than it is when Fixxxer nixes somebody's offensive posts. It's moderation. And my conclusion on the matter is, to no surprise, one that disagrees with Mark's, because I didn't see anything in his argument that convinces me that it is justifiable or warranted to be screaming mad at Metallica for making the decision to not show the woman's breasts while she is being raped in that situation. As I said before, because of the emergence of sexualized aggression on camera, many young impressionable males are seeing sexuality and sex as something that is violent, and it does--in some cases--have a carry-over effect into real life. I read a truly horrifying tale the other day about a guy that raped his girlfriend while strangling her with her own underwear during the rape; he stated that it was something he "was looking forward to doing for a long time." The impetus for this outburst of violence? She asked him to turn down the volume on the computer while he was watching, yep you guessed it, porn. Suffering PTSD, the young woman committed suicide only days later. She is far, far from being the first woman to suffer and die at the hands of a male porn consumer.
Right now, there are over 11,000 new pornographic titles being put out every year. Why? Because the demand for porn is at an all-time high (so it seems), as the porn industry's revenues in the United States ($11 billion) is higher than that of the mainstream movie industry. With this comes more mainstreaming of porn, as Hollywood tries to get in on some of that financial pie (no pun intended, putting out movies that cater exclusively to 18-24 year-old males featuring excessive and gratuitous amounts of female nudity and women in clearly subordinate, lesser roles.
Just as only men can stop rape, so too are men the only ones that can ultimately stop the mass production of pornography and the objectification and degradation of women.
I should add also, as a final note to my discussion with Mark, that Metallica's decision to blur out the actress's breasts during the rape scene in the Turn the Page video does not qualify as censorship. Censorship is something that is done by the government. Metallica is a private enterprise; blurring out breasts in their music videos is no more censorship than it is when Fixxxer nixes somebody's offensive posts. It's moderation. And my conclusion on the matter is, to no surprise, one that disagrees with Mark's, because I didn't see anything in his argument that convinces me that it is justifiable or warranted to be screaming mad at Metallica for making the decision to not show the woman's breasts while she is being raped in that situation. As I said before, because of the emergence of sexualized aggression on camera, many young impressionable males are seeing sexuality and sex as something that is violent, and it does--in some cases--have a carry-over effect into real life. I read a truly horrifying tale the other day about a guy that raped his girlfriend while strangling her with her own underwear during the rape; he stated that it was something he "was looking forward to doing for a long time." The impetus for this outburst of violence? She asked him to turn down the volume on the computer while he was watching, yep you guessed it, porn. Suffering PTSD, the young woman committed suicide only days later. She is far, far from being the first woman to suffer and die at the hands of a male porn consumer.