History of Feminism
In reply to the discussion: 44 Stock Photos That Hope To Change The Way We Look At Women [View all]BainsBane
(55,389 posts)women as ornamental objects for male lust. Those are toxic imagines that disempower women, prompt our young girls to demean and devalue themselves and waste energy on trying to turn themselves into something impossible rather than doing something constructive with their lives. They create eating disorders. They are unrealistic images, not only because those models don't actually look like real women; they don't look like themselves. They are all photoshopped. The fact you say you want your bottom to look like one of those girls, essentially like a prepubescent child, shows how damaging those images are.
What is to celebrate about turning women into commodities for corporate profit? It may be what those women want to do, but those decisions are made in the context of a misogynist culture that values women only as ornaments, not as human beings with equal rights and the full array of options enjoyed by men.
There is a reason images like that are prohibited in any public place or workplace that plays any attention to the law. The create a deliberately hostile environment that seeks to exclude, that seeks to drive women from public space, that delieberately and consciously tells women they are inferior. So by all means, you support the menz in turning the clock back to 1962 when married women didn't have a right to own property or people could be refused employment simply for being women or a people of color, before EEOC laws regulated stuff like you insist should be celebrated. If that's what you want, go for it, but don't bring it into HOF. It is the one little corner of DU where misogyny isn't celebrated and where women get to count as human beings.