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Monday, November 23, 2009

Today, prompted by a post on Jezebel, I watched the entire Dreamworlds 3 documentary by Sut Jhally.

It was honest, it was raw, it was disturbing. Everyone should watch it.


(The whole doc is available on Youtube through this user)

The end of the documentary, showing the attacks against women in NYC, shows a very clear and very frightening similarity between the objectification of women in music videos, and in real life.
In light of recent events, such as the Richmond gang rape, wherein a 15-year-old girl was gang-raped in front of a crowd of up to 20 people, who cheered and watched, this phenomenon becomes only more real and more disturbing. Or how about the woman in Brazil who was heckled and sexually harassed by almost 200 students for wearing a mini-skirt to class, and was subsequently expelled from her school for causing a scene?

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