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“You hot slut!”

Published by
Sarah
at November 17, 2006 in femininity, pop-culture, raunch and sex. 1 Comment

I walk out the house one night looking fly, and 19-yr- old Model girl stares with interest, “You hot slut!” she shrieks grinning madly.

I freeze for a second. Then break out in an involuntary smile- there is so much love in these words i can’t describe it.

“Filthy slut,” “skanky ho”, even “hot bitch” have morphed into common terms of endearment between young women.

In the absence of external objectification are we just objectifying each other? Or has “slut” been redefined to denote female sexual empowerment?

Is this camraderie of boorishness especially among the “educated student set” - where getting “smashed” and “high”, having multiple boyfriends and being the most materialistic is the ultimate symbol of status- a regression or a progression?

Are we proving women can go just as hard and fast as the guys? Or is it just a shallow form of self-absorbed competition and conformity?

Ariel Levy, author of “Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the rise of raunch culture” writes that “Girls gone Wild” is a phenomenon that seems to suggest liberation but really just panders to a banal form of consumerism and titillation that masquerades as empowerment.

In a world where Jenna Jameson not Jane Eyre is the cultural icon, even Punk Rocker Pink wonders , “What happened to the dreams of a girl President? She’s dancing in the video next to 50 cent…”

This is just getting ridiculous

Published by
Anna
at October 27, 2006 in indoctrination, pop-culture, raunch, sexualisation of children and wtf?!. 1 Comment

First we have prostituted up Bratz Babyz dolls, and padded bralettes for four year-olds,
the US sells g-strings and lingerie for toddlers and now retailer, Tesco, has just been forced to remove a “sexy” pole-dancing kit from the toys and games section of their website. Marketing pole-dancing to kids? WTF?! My head is going to explode.

A “sexy” pole-dancing kit has been pulled from the toys and games section of a website run by Britain’s biggest retailer after protests from outraged parents.

The Peekaboo pole-dancing kit, which has a “sexy garter” to help “unleash the sex kitten inside” was sold in Tesco Direct’s toys and games section, The Daily Mail reported.

“Soon you’ll be flaunting it to the world and earning a fortune in Peekaboo Dance Dollars,” its blurb reads.

“Unleash the sex kitten inside … simply extend the Peekaboo pole inside the tube, slip on the sexy tunes and away you go!”

The £50 ($125) kit includes a 2.6-metre chrome pole, a “sexy dance garter” and a DVD demonstrating suggestive dance moves, the report said.

I need to go lie down.

It’s hard to believe that this is for real

Published by
Anna
at September 14, 2006 in raunch and wtf?!. 0 Comments

This is a couple of days old but I’ve been a wee bit busy lately.

Victorian Target stores are leading the charge in Australia for the sexualisation of young girls, by selling padded bra and pant sets to children as young as six. This disgusts me in so many ways.

Tiny matching lingerie sets of lacy bras and knickers in many children’s brands including Bratz, Saddle Club and Barbie, have hit the shelves aimed at girls who are barely old enough for school.

The Bratz padded “bralettes” (pictured below) were among 30 different styles in the stores and, I haven’t been to target in a while but I’d say they probably feature in stores throughout Australia.

The Bratz distributor Funtastic had this to say about the underwear:

“The idea of the padding is for girls to be discreet as they develop,” a spokeswoman said.

“It is more about hiding what you have got than showing it off. It is certainly not there to make children look like they have breasts.”

I don’t know exactly what they think a six-year-old has got to be discrete about. And for those who are older- giving young girls the message that they should be ashamed about developing into an adolescent is not a good message to be putting across in any case.

And, I call bullshit.

“It is more about hiding what you have got than showing it off.” The rest of their products are promoting exactly this sexualisation of children.

This range of Bratz Babyz dolls leaves me a bit speechless:

What the hell is that?! I don’t get why anyone thought dressing up children’s toys like prostitutes, especially when said toys are toy babies, was a good idea. I’m seriously baffled. Apparently these baby prostitutes feature “milk bottles hanging off chains strapped to their legs.”

“Childhood experts” have slammed the dolls as verging on child pornography and I can’t say I disagree. Even though, the dolls aren’t real, it exposes children to sexualisation as far as the influences it has on them and how they develop their ideas about who they’re supposed to be, how they’re supposed to act, dress and form their identities.

Burlesque show sparks controversy at government-sponsored climate change event

Published by
Anna
at September 8, 2006 in Politics, funny and raunch. 0 Comments

A climate change conference held in Canberra found itself surrounded by furore after providing a burlesque show as entertainment. The routine stopped about 10 minutes into the performance when women in the audience started to walk out.

As much as I find burlesque shows entertaining, this smacks of the old men’s club that parliament used to be (well, let’s face it- it still is), so I can understand the reaction of some women attendees. A government conference is hardly the platform to showcase Australian burlesque.

Burlesque, in its irony, probably shouldn’t be shown to old men in suits as a rule as I’m sure it would go over their head. I can imagine them all sitting there drooling and getting all excited. ugh!

Miss Kitka’s House of Burlesque provided the entertainment and is now auctioning off a costume that was worn during the show to make up for the withdrawal of funding that the controversy sparked.

$8000 was withdrawn from sponsorship of the Australia New Zealand Climate Change Forum by Environment Minister Ian Campbell and the Department of Agriculture. Withdrawing funding from the conference is absolutely ridiculous and so OTT. Although Campbell will take any excuse to deny and underfund anything to do with tackling climate change so it comes as no surprise really.

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Ralph TV

Published by
Anna
at September 7, 2006 in media and raunch. 2 Comments

It’s only going to get worse in Australia isn’t it. PBL (the Packer media company that owns Channel nine) has recently pitched a television spinoff of its soft porn magazine Ralph to advertisers and media buyers in an attempt to gain backing for the show.

“Ralph TV“ won’t be on at prime time, so I guess it will garner its place amongst the ads for phone sex that suddenly appear post 11pm. Does this herald a new content for Australian TV? Will Girls Gone Wild try an Australian venture? I hope not.