Humiliation of Women

WARNING:  Sexually humiliating photos of women taken right of my TV screen (normal Basic Cable channels) -- Below at bottom of post.

WHAT IS SEXUAL HUMILIATION in MEDIA and HOW DOES IT GIVE MEN POWER OVER WOMEN?

For centuries men have been into humiliation as a tactic of displaying power and authority over others.  For example, humiliation has long been a tactic used in war to taunt prisoners and display power over them.

Forced displays of public nudity are one of the forms of male humiliation practices.  Even in college fraternity initiations, young plebes are often forced to be naked or stripped to their underwear while enduring further humiliating practices like having food thrown at them, being forced to eat like dogs at a bowl with hands tied behind their backs, or getting peed upon.  There are countless ways that men invent to practice their humiliation tactics in order to show dominance over others, but nudity and sexual humiliation are particularly common favorites.

In media, this humiliation tactic is largely used against women, accomplished by continual images of women in various forms of sexual display.  We see realistic simulations of very adult sex acts, naked-in-shower scenes, depictions of naked women dead on the floor (as in many true-crime re-enactment shows), scenes that take place inside of strip clubs, and shows that depict women as prostitutes. And from what I have been told and read, countless video games sexualize and humiliate women too, even though they are animations of women.

Every time we see a naked woman on TV we are being reminded of the Big Message that underlies the male media agenda: That the men have the ultimate hierarchy, women are for sex and it's a man's right to have access to see women's bodies displayed sexually.  And due to the fact that the male fleshy sexual appendages (penis and testicles) cannot be depicted nude on TV or in R-rated films, the not-so-subliminal message sent out to boys and girls, women and men, is that men’s sexuality and most private sexual parts of their bodies are sanctioned and protected, where as women’s are up for grabs to the lowest bidder.  In this way, women are held in check, and it sends the reassuring message to society that men are still in ultimately in charge and women are still first and foremost objects of sexuality and arousal.

The fact that it's OK to show women fully frontally nude and not men is irrational.  Women have balls just like men do... they just happen to be on our chests rather than between our legs.  And now that 50 Shades of Grey has made it OK to show fully shaved female privates with vaginal lips revealed in R-rated films just proves that female sexuality is rated as "less than" male sexuality.  And any female desires to see naked men's penises is withheld from us on every level. If you want to see a man's naked erection, you best be dating or be married to a guy who can still get them. 

There are no images of male sexuality on TV that are on par with the rampant sexualization and sexual nudification of women.  Many people make the argument that "women don't want to see male frontal nudity or sexual humiliation."  My belief is, that it is the men who don't want to see male nudity or allow it to even get on TV.  Though they have no problems subjecting countless women and girls to this imagery of sexualized and sexually nude displays of women's bodies in media.

ANOTHER FORM OF SEXUAL HUMILIATION: CALL HER A BITCH --i.e., a female dog.  Lower status to be dominated over

In addition to literally millions of mainstream images of naked women in various states of humiliation (fear, crying, nudity, captured, murdered), women and girls are continually and repeatedly referred to on TV as Bitch, You Bitch, Stupid Bitch and Bitches. This is true for nearly every show on television, ranging in genres from PG-13, TV-14 rated cartoons all the way up to cop shows, movies, situational comedies, nighttime talk shows, "reality" shows, and more. It is simply now just a common synonym referring to females, a word that is so “true” and “harmless” that it is not even a censored word. At least that’s the message it sends out.

And even worse, it is now common to see female characters and "actual females" on reality TV use the term bitch freely also.  Somehow this "legitimizes" the fact and makes it more of an actual fact that women are in fact Bitches. But what it really is, is programming. Scripted language and instructions to fight and call each other bitch. It's all just programming. It's the media agenda to keep women from having self esteem and to keep us sexually humiliated. 

Women with self-confidence and self-esteem are not as easy to manipulate by advertisers, for one thing.  They can sell us more stuff if we really are living at the level of feeling like a bunch of bitches who are good for nothing except looking hot and sexy and being the ones that TV and films can show naked, since men are completely sanctioned and protected and off limits. In other words, in our humiliation and shame at our female lot in life, we buy products to make ourselves feel better.  And we behave and don’t overthrow society too, an added bonus.

Below are some photo-examples taken from my TV screen just in the last week. I would like to add, that, until women take a stand against these shows (by boycotting the shows and the companies who advertise on those shows), women will continue to be depicted in sexually humiliating scenarios and images.  One problem may be that girls and women themselves don’t fully see these images as humiliating.  But men do, I can assure you.  A history of war tactics and fraternity initiations and Internet porn scenarios reveals that to us.  Meanwhile males will continue to fester their deeply ingrained resentments about the "facts" they learn about women from what television reinforces in them from the time they are young boys and ongoing right up through adulthood: That young, attractive women are emotional vixens who are conniving whores at best and ugly bitches at worst.  Where are all the TV shows about women doing amazing things in the world?  THAT's reality.  Reality is definitely not what the television media agenda continually creates and tries to pass off for TV programming.

It’s easy to feel superior (and less respectful towards women) when you have so much “evidence” on TV that backs up such an attitude.

THE LATEST TREND:  FIND LEGAL WAYS TO SHOW FULL TITTY AND VAGINA ON TELEVISION

The proliferation of female nudity and sexual humiliation have come in the form shows on TV such as, The Girls Next Door (they kind of started it), TV-MA movies that are rated R in the theater but later air on TV uncut and uncensored, “reality” shows that use semi-blurred lines and patches to "hide" female sexual privates – shows like Naked and Afraid, Born in the Wild, tattoo shows – and of course Premium Cable shows found on networks like HBO and Showtime. Anyone who thinks the HBO hit "Girls" is empowering for women might want to take a closer look.  Empowerment would be showing full-frontal male nudity and stop showing yet again more naked breasts (haven't we seen enough already?). Empowerment would be to show a female character performing "analingus" on a male character, rather than showing a guy doing it to Brian Williams' daughter or showing girl on girl nude sex scenes.

The latest sexually humiliating mainstream TV show I saw advertised was Born in the Wild (see TV-screen shots below).  Now they show the ultimate humiliation of women.  In the dirt, all dirty, legs spread, and men who aren’t doctors reaching into their private areas to deliver the gift of life.  What less of a way to honor the gift of childbirth that women have than to humiliate them sexually on TV just so you can show some naked V (or at least heavily “almost show it”) on TV.

OK, here’s the screen shots:

Yep, his fingers are in her vagina. On TV. On the Lifetime channel. This was just from a "teaser commerical" that ran during the day, several times.

Full snatch-view. We are semi-protected from seeing it, but all those men and camera people are seeing it. That's also a humiliation.

This is a supposed "dead girl" taken from a "re-enactment" on the TV show Forensic Files.  They re-edited the original 2002 episode to add female nudity.  There was a naked girl in shower depicted in this episode also.

And of course, there are the many shower commercials -- a longtime staple of afternoon TV.  I've seen shower commerials that show side-boob, and now I've recently seen this one:  A woman is sudsing her calfs, but it seems to be filmed to look like she's pretty high up on her thighs. Notice the hand that looks like it's beween the "thighs" sudsing. 

SUMMARY:  People working in film and TV will literally push the envelope of what can be shown of a woman's naked body and sexuality (and fashion trends) until women finally say stop. The big question is: will women ever say stop?