I am a female animation student and I received in my email today this "call for entry" to submit work to the International Erotic Animation Festival with the following video. Please help me verbalize how disgusting and insulting and hideous this is. It made me want to puke and cry and scream, especially as a female animator trying to enter an industry that is highly male dominated, and traditionally very sexist both on screen and off. I feel like I can't shrug this thing off as "Well, the festival is calling for erotic content." This is the last thing in the world I would ever call "erotic". Please help me, tell me what I could possible do to express how demeaning and hurtful this is.
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I'm a straight man, and I found that really disturbing and necrophilic. I can also see the obvious sexism.
I recognise that - it's one of the current E4 stings that they insert before shows (E4 being a British digital TV channel aimed at the 15-35 age group). Their stings and ads are always very weird, but that one is disturbing in some way I can't quite put my finger on. Definitely not intended to be erotic, anyway.
Very weird... don't even know how to respond.
Blegh. You'd think that once you were dead you would have some peace, but apparently no. Can you imagine being one of those girls for eternity?
To me this is disturbing because it taps into a culture that equates sex with violence and death with beauty. I am tired of seeing dead women being eroticized. Even though these women weren't the victims of violence on screen, the fact that they are dead at a young age makes you wonder how they got that way, especially given that they are apparently prostitutes (and prostitutes are particularly vulnerable to violence).
This clip also buys into the glorification of the "pimp" as being some kind of ultimate male figure. The fact that the women dancing on the car are subservient to the man is fairly blatant. It's not like they are just having fun; they work for him.
There's also some problematic racial stuff going on. I could probably say more on that but I would have to watch the video again, and I don't want to. :-/
You might try submitting it to sociological images. I don't know if they need yet another video about the objectification of women, but it would be a nice compliment to some other posts I have seen (posts about dead women being sexy).
the blog: http://contexts.org/socimages/
email: socimages(at)contexts(dot)org.
That made me feel violently ill, and violently uncomfortable.
Yeuch, words can not express, sorry :(