Well, it's what every town and every city in every country has in common of course; women being reduced to their titties and arse. Women being stripped down to their goddam tits and arse.
Whenever I go out locally in Essex I am always bombarded with the 'woman as sex object' image. Whether its posters and flyers advertising local club nights (where women are always dressed in bikinis when you get there and men are the only ones invited to this party - women's needs don't count remember?) or of course the visuals on the televisions these bars display. If this is one of the porny MTV channels you are pretty much guaranteed that you will see lots of cleavage and strippers and poles and yawn fucking yawn. You know what I mean. IT'S FUCKING EVERYWHERE!!! Anyway, I go into my local bar last night and there is a new visual on their screens. One which the manager gladly explained to me was called 'Shadow Dancing'. This was where an image of a NAKED woman dances against a psychedilic background to the clubby music playing in the shitty bar. Her nipples and breasts are prominent. She stripped, she bent over, she did all the things girls brainwashed by our porny culture do. You know what I mean. This was wholly fucking offensive to me. Again, I chatted to my girlfriends asking them why we cannot ever escape this image wherever we turn, to which they agreed and put it down to 'chavvy mentality' Essex. I thought I should ask the manager about this and asked if it could be turned off. He said he couldn't do anything about this as it is Head Office who decides what is on those televisions. I also asked him if he had any idea of the rape statistics in Essex & around the country and asked if he thought this sort of image helped? He said "probably not" but still it wasn't his decision to turn the TV's off.
We decided to leave this shitty bar however, I couldn't leave without doing my bit. So, armed with my girlfriend's liquid eye-liner I proceeded to write DEGRADING SHIT over this disgusting imagery and left the bar promptly and in hysterics, giving high 5's to my fellow girlfriends. My friends don't really associate themselves openly with feminism but agreed this wasn't right and found it equally degrading. Power to the women, my friend said. Indeed.
Anyway, today, the day after yesterday, I am watching American Gangster with my boyfriend. If you're unaware of this film, the long & short of it is, it's about drug smuggling. The women who work at the heroin factory have to work with their titties out just incase they 'steal the drugs'. The men however, in the first images of course were fully dressed. However, these women were allowed to keep their knickers on for some strange reason?! I'm not sure why they didn't use this an excuse to get the women completely fucking starkers? I mean, any excuse right? Why, I'm surprised they didn't ask the women to cut their cunts off and stick it to their goddam heads incase they tried smuggled it up there aswell.
Anyway, this is where the story ends. Any fucking excuse to get women naked. Bar managers, club owners, film directors, music video directors, newspapers, whoever the fuck you are ... ANY FUCKING EXCUSE and you will fucking use it, won't you? Makes them feel more like men I guess. It keeps patriarchy alive and fucking kicking.
Last night, Essex. Today, American Gangster. Any fucking excuse.
And women carry on being raped and beaten and killed and raped and beaten and killed and raped and beaten and killed and ...