Burn it Down

NH, I couldn’t access this at all, here or even link to Youtube. Could you repost link?

What a great video. I KNEW I didn’t like Tom Ford for a reason. . .

Whoa! That’s one of the strongest vids I’ve seen in a while.

Takes your breath away.

The music/chant adds to it [not always the case]. A clear, unequivocal message and/or reminder for us all!

Thanks for posting it.

Yes. A very powerful video.

Unfortunately, in many ways women are more avid and loyal followers of patriarchy than men.

It’s not men who preside over genital mutilation ceremonies in many Islamic societies; it’s sisters, mothers, grandmothers, aunts and cousins.

It wasn’t men who forced Chinese concubines into binding their feet. The practice grew from a royal concubine who became the emperor’s favorite with that strategy.

In the west, what seems like power to a young woman, a teenage girl, the glorious bloom of sexuality is mistaken for real power.

Until women stop being their own worst enemies and learn to organize and bond, I’m afraid nothing will change.

And some women are always more interested in pursuing their own paths to power via youth, allure, sexuality than in promoting fairness for all.

Just like men.

I’ve come to the conclusion it’s human nature. I didn’t say it’s right.

it’s only the biggest suppoertersd

Stark, stunning, powerful, and all too true.

Thank you.

Very powerful. Women cannot allow this to continue.

Isn’t that sad?

Good grief, I can’t believe we allow this crap to continue. When is enough going to be enough?

Women will never be equal until these kind of ads are perceived to be WRONG. Imagine the counterparts about race.

Everyone should watch Killiung me softly 3. I think that is the most recent version. I got to watch it in a college class and it shook the young males in the room up alot!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0336699/

Everyone should watch Killng me softly 3. I think that is the most recent version. I got to watch it in a college class and it shook the young males in the room up alot!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0336699/

powerful.

Wow.

Thank you for posting this. I’ll pass it on.

The problem with the video’s impact, IMHO, is it displays images of women, models, actresses, aspiring models, willingly posing in exchange for money.

By the level of photography, I’d say the ads were mostly for high-end rags paying high prices to the models.

The women in the ads don’t look like they’re doing anything against their will.

A more meaningful video would, IMHO, show REAL victims of abuse, not pampered pets pretending to be victims.

And the chanting got on my nerves.

(BTW – I’m female)

Watch “Killing Us Softy 3″

Here’s the google video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1993368502337678412

OMG, what a video! I just sent the link to all of my girl friends and young nieces. Jeez, the ads with simulated rape are friggin’ scary. How anyone can even think it’s a form of art boggles the mind. Sicko.

Truly revolting. I remember writing to Vogue about 10 years ago to complain about their violent theme in a fashion layout showing the models in poses threatened by attack dogs. I wondered how a dog’s jaws around an ankle moved people to buy shoes…It amazed me how many letters they printed the next month drooling over this “art” by a celeb photographer.

Wonder whether the drop in sales for designer duds might be a good time to attack them on these very issues…if they want to sell clothes in the future, get on board. I certainly couldn’t in any way use any of the goods portrayed in these ads.

Amazing video; such a reminder as what some of us have been aware of all our lives. It makes no sense does it-that our 4 leggers have the opportunity for better activism against abuse than half the human species. Burn it down in your own corner of the world, don’t put up with it, don’t purchase from and do not condone. Wrong is wrong, cruelty is cruelty and it must be understood this is not advertising it is and has been systematic brainwashing.

Just look at msnbc’s lineup on weekends. Endless stories about victimizing some woman somewhere. It’s also in programming, in a more subtle form.

thank you for the excellent post.

The primary people in power are MEN. Perhaps if women were treated equal, some would not resort to sexuality to get ahead.

If women were taught as little girls that their worth is not what they can give to men but what they can give to themselves, they would not allow themselves to be treated this way.

In other countries, the women simply have no choice. Many women in this country are giving away their dignity and many it is stolen from them.

Very, very sad.

Speechless.

Very, very well done.

As a subscriber to several of the mags that displayed those disgusting ads i thought I’d become numb to the offensive images. To my surprise, I HADN’T seen it all. Of course, my outrage is insignificant because I don’t regularly buy Jimmy Choo’s, so I’m realistic enough to know that protests will do no good as long as the people who design these ads and those who approve their use in print accept them.

The real targets for our outrage should be editors like Anna Wintour who have the final say in whether these pix see the light of day. Misogyny will be a profitable business as long as we keep buying the mags and viewing the ads. JMHO

Very shocking and disturbing.

As someone above noted, it would only have been an iota more poignant with a picture of Favreau inserted.

Let’s all work on violence against women in all its ugly forms. Please join us at The New Agenda – this is one of our organization’s major focuses for 2009.

Wow. Just – wow.

For those of you with daughters or sons, or nieces and nephews – or who just seek understanding and how to begin to move past this, I recommend ‘The Lolita Effect’ by M. Gigi Durham.

Basil,
Regarding your comment – Unfortunately, in many ways women are more avid and loyal followers of patriarchy than men. For women to take action against this kind of violent sexism they must first understand what the issues are. The Campaign for Gender Equality (www.campaignforgenderequality.org) has partnered with Professor Bettina Aptheker, head of the Feminist Studies department at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). Bettina has just released a 17-DVD set (a broadcast quality recording) of her very important class Introduction to Feminisms.

There’s a lot of information out there but it not always available and easy to understand. Aptheker’s Introduction to Feminisms paints the whole picture. Professor Aptheker explains gender INequailty and how far we have come in the last 40 years but what still needs to change in an entertaining and engaging way. Her 17 lectures will increase your knowledge of sexism, racism and homophobia and how they are all connected and contribute to gender INequality in this country and around the world. I am older and have been around but this painted the whole picture for me – Information is power.

The 17-DVD set is available at: http://www.introtofem.org for only $20….such a deal!!!

Why is anyone surprised? We live in a society in which SNUFF FILMS exist. You’d be shocked to know the people you might admire who have seen them. I did some research on it and it’s appalling. A room full of men with a box of kleenex jerking off to a woman literally being murdered on camera. WTF? Violence towards women, and the fact that it is a sexual turn on for some men, has gone on since the beginning of time. Too bad we have a buffoon usurping the White House who himself pisses on women…Good luck trying to get help from the idiot who flipped Hillary off and called Palin a pig. Oh well.

Thank you, New Hampster!!

It is horrific. And I cannot help but be reminded of the misogyny and sexism that was hurled at Clinton by the media and BO and his campaign.

This was an eye-opening video.

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Before everyone gets all nutty about what women in America DON’T HAVE…remember that genital mutilation is alive and well in Africa. Yeah, I know because I have a project about it. Seems odd in 2008, right? The reason, or a big reason, that I love being AMERICAN is that women here have WAY more to be thankful for THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. That’s why I keep puking on the so called “progressives” who make it their daily mission to crap on this fine country.

Men jerk off to SNUFF FILMS. How do you explain that? Bondage and really SICK ASS pornography turns a lot of men on. Hmmm…maybe it’s not something we will overcome overnight. And I agree with basil…as long as women MAKE those kinds of films, pose for the photos, etc. then they are COMPLICATE in the hate and violence. I don’t have the answer to stop it. But please grow up and understand that this problem has been going on since the beginning of time, and STILL exists in WAY bigger ways in other countries.

When I see liberal “feminists” piss on America and other women…all I can say is GO LIVE IN AFRICA and then tell me what a piece of crap America is.

Twenty-three years ago, one of rock’s most successful perfomers, Pat Benatar, released her seventh album, Seven the Hard Way. It included a song that was in the Top 40 this week in 1986 that attacked the media’s use of sex. The song was called (rather fittingly) “Sex as a Weapon”.
Pat’s noted her only regret with the song was not using the full chorus line of “Stop using sex as a weapon” for the title because she believes that many radio stations were reluctant to play a song that used “sex” in the title, especially paired with “weapon”.
The video may be a bit tame compared to the “Burn It Down” one, but is still quite strong (even tackling the sacred James Bond image, and, of course, by the mid 1970s, the only requirement for women in a Bond film was to be stunning because, whether friend or foe, her ultimate purpose was to be conquered by Bond and then dumped).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypNE8R3E1Lc

It’s time women in this country start DEMANDING gender parity and an end to misogyny. We’ve been pussy footing around for three decades now.

I don’t know what happened to women’s groups and feminist leaders who seem to have adopted the “request it, be diplomatic about it, work within the system for it, complain about it, whine about it, plead for change” approach to achieving women’s rights.

Look at the bottomless hole feminist leaders dug for us in this election season with the “go along to get along” strategy!

Are they all afraid of the media hate barrage they would have to endure? Are they afraid of the male and (most hurtful) female ridicule certain to come? Are they afraid of the national backlash politicians, media, corporate America and conservatives are certain to unload on them?

It’s time to stand up and fight the battle – like Hillary Clinton did. Like Sarah Palin did.

Women are the majority of the population in this country. Women control most of the money in this country. Women are the major consumers in this country. Women control the vote in this country. Women already have the power right in their hapless damned hands!!!

That’s why men hold on so tightly to power and work so hard to beat the crap out of any women who dares step up to her rightful place in society. They’re afraid because they know how vulnerable they are. Basically, if women would get off their duffs and fight the good fight, men would collapse in a scared sh*tless tsunami.

To hell with asking and appealing and pleading. It’s time to boycott right and left – and start suing the crap out of everybody in sight who is violating our already constitutionally guaranteed rights.

It’s all right there for the taking if women and feminist leadership could get up half the nerve Sarah and Hillary have in their right and left pinkies respectively.

Women are the biggest fans of female sexual castration right here in the US, except they call it a hysterctomy.

The biggest abuse of women comes at the hands of their physicianss who drug them massively with anti-depressants and formerly with HRT drugs – all of which have been shown to harm them. To have the largest selling class of drugs -anti-depressants – sold mainly to women in the US means US women are very, very, very sick.

And rather than get well, they want instead to drag other women down to their same level. Women on women violence is far more deadly – and it kills far more slowly only after sucking the life and vitality out of their victims.

Spare me your faux pity about African mutilations and Chinese foot-binding when you still accept without a whimper the massive medical abuse of women right here in the US.

Unless women respect themselves and others, raise their children to respect themselves and others and take responsibility for themselves and not expect others to take the responsibility for them, nothing will change.

Every woman should be insulted that this guy using the name NewHampster who opens his post with “My goddess…”

First off, NewHampster is a male who does porn. He likes and approves of porn.

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