Heather Mallick, a Canadian journalist, writes a weekly opinion piece for the online Globe and Mail. This week, she's taking on the mainstreaming of porn:
"It's all around us in advertising, movies, video games, DVDs, pay-per-view TV, subscription websites, cellphone downloads, newspaper and online classified ads, hotel rooms, doll costumes, those weird erotica shops in suburban malls and many odder places.
It influences the way we dress, how we talk and what we will put under the tree this Christmas....
.... mainstream culture [has] became increasingly sexually explicit and misogynistic.
We knew early on what Madonna's crotch looked like up close, even before she produced an entire coffee table book about it. Snoop Dogg popularized hard-core rap, daughters started demanding Bratz dolls (dressed like hookers) and glittery abbreviated stripper clothes, sons began rapping and killing prostitutes in Grand Theft Auto."
2 comments:
Funny that you blog about Bratz dolls and now a lawsuit is banning the company from selling them anymore. Something about the woman that designed them used to work for Mattel the makers of the infamous Barbie. I never liked the bratz dolls and garage saled the one and only one my daughter ever had! Ish they were ugly!
Really? That is interesting. But why this case now? The dolls have been around for awhile. Whether this woman designed them or the Iranian Jewish American man who says he created them, the thing is, ish they are sleazy! But many moms and dads these days seem to think sexualizing their young girls' minds is ok. People will rationalize anything.
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